Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-27
A "PIONEER SWEET"
The First Bstt Sugar in America
Produced in Utah.
SOME VERY INTERESTING HISTORY
The Iden Conceived In Franc, By Elder
John TaJlor-isa,y Machinery
Brought Across the Plains.


pioneers OF Utah In the approaching
celebration is shown by the numerous
letters received from them and by the
information bearing on subjectg OF
peculiar Interest contained therein.
Representatives Of the sturdy band
which blnzed the pathway of civiligs.
ton acrose the continent are daily
visitors to jubilee hesdq uarters and
every one has tale OF interest to tell.
Among the callers recently were
Pnilip De LaMare, l.. John Nuttall and
George j. Taylor, son OF the late
Presidont John Taylor of this city.
The former had Charge OF the train OF
prairie schooners which brought from
Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri
river to Utah the machinery Ter the
plant OF the first beet sugar factory
which was introduced in the United
States, making Utah the Pioneer OF
that industry on the western CONT
nent.
Mr.. De La Mare is now in the sere
but his memory 10 as good as IL was in
the days when lie started on that
memorable trip. The Idea OF estRb.
fishing beet sugar factory in Utah
wac conceived by President John
Taylor, then an Apostle, while travel
ing In France In 1850. In his travels
he observed that the people were OK.
tepsivsIy engaged In tbs cultivation VI
plant which lthey cRilld oolzA and
from which was extracted what IL
known to lattep-uay comm rec rs rApo.
eeed oil end which in thoPe days was
used by the French as an Mr..
Taylor believed that II tho plant could
be introduced into Utah it would
prove of great value, as at that timo
the people were compelled to depend
upon msager supply OF tallow can
dies OF home manufacture for lighting
purposes. While IL vestigatipg the
subject Mr.. Taylor learned OF the bee,
sugar industry successfully conducted
In the town OF Arras, Francs. and 60.
log there room became convinced that
while his frat idea wac q feasible aho
that more advantage could be derived
by Utah from the establishment OF a
sugar plant. He obtained a draft OF
the mnchinery used In the Arras plant,
which he took to. England anu sue
ceeued IN Interesting In the
enterprise Captain Russell. a Scotch.
man. who had become a convert
10 the faith, and John w. Coward OF
Liverpool. Mr.. DE La Mare while in
France had advanced considerable OF
his money in the enterpriee. n com.
pany was organized known as the
Dessert Manufacturing company AMI
with FUNDS on hand Mr.. Taylor On
tered into contract Tor the oonstruc.
ton OF the necessary machinery for a
complete sugar factory with Messrs.
Fawcett, Preston & %. OF Liverpool
from drafts ana plans submitted.
When completed the machinery was
shipped on board :he ship Rockaway,
which sailed from Liverpool on the
9Th Of March, 1862, for New Orleans,
Mr. Elias Morris OF Salt Lake City
being In charge.
Elder JOAN Taylor was at New
Orleans on the arrival Of the snip and
directed in the transfer anu shipment
by steam boat up the Mississippi river,
10 Ht. Louis. 1t was again transferred
by steamboat to Fort Leaven worth,
Missouri, and after some delay, waiting
Tor wagons and cattle, was loaded on
wagons built at Council Bluffs express.
~ Tor the journey acrUss tbs plains to
this city. These wagons--some fifty
Ia numbeI-were brought dswn the
river by Elias Morris, but they proved
10 he TOO light to carry the heavy
machinery. After proceeding on the
Journey ten or twelve miles they be-
gan TO break down, whereupon Mr..
DE La Mare, the captain In charge,
who was practical blacksmith, re-
turned to Weston, Misso uri, and con.
tracted for seversi large "achoonerp,"
with five or six yoke OF cattle
and Competent teamstor to each.
On arrival at st. Louis, Mr..
De La Mare who had been appointed
to take charge of the shipment from
that place rejoined the company
he having been previously en-
gagged In purchasing cattle. Elias
Morris and wife, IL. John Nuitall
William Il. INITIAL and wife OF Walls.
burg, Joseph Nuttall OF Provo, Samuel
Harding and wl!e OF Provo, ana Fred
Bollwinkie OF Salt Lake City, are the
only survivors, so lar rs known, Of
those who started with thie machinery
from Liverpool and continued with II
uptiI its arrival at Provo. Utah. In
the train OF fiity-tw0 wagons which
started from the Missouri river on July
9, 1852, row living, were Philip IN
La Mare, captain, AMI mis- son Philip
Elias M0rris and wife, William Il
Nuttall nRd wife, L.. John Mutual
Joseph Nuttall, Samuel Harding ant
wife, Thomas Carlisle md wife o
Alpine, John Evans OF North Ogden
Mary Parry R,wlsnds OF Logan anu
Fred Bollwlpkie. Alter long ant
tedious Journey, encounterlDg snow
anu ioss of cattle, some OF the wAgonl
carrying the heaviest loads that eve
crossed The plains, the train arrived a
Salt Lake Cliy In November, 1867.
1t WIS decided to establish tine plan
on the Provo stream 90 the machinery
still In charge OF Mr.. DE La Mare
WAS hauled to jts banks, bu
owing to unfoTseen dlficultie
which preiented themselves, It wa
finally deoidsd TO return ii TO thi
city. This accomplished, part OF th
machinery was erected on the north
east corner OF the Temple block AM
on the banks oil City creek, anu with
beets grown on the iowlnnds In IN
alknli district, @, nth aud west OF tb
city, the process of manuiaciuriD
beet eugar in the U aited bIates wa
inaugurated for the Grst time. 4
failure was scored. Not bacnute Q
aBy defect in the machinery but soit
~ because OF lack OF knowledg
concerning the cultivation OF tho beef
9rswn In an aikall toil the Juice who