The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-09
CAPITAL Of A MILLION
ANOTHER BEET SUGAR FACTORY
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The Clarks of Montana Building at
Los Alamitos-Capacity of Works
10000 Acres of Rich Soil.

boD Jan. li.-DN jury
next d second factory will be turning
out beet sugar in Southern California
in competition with the great estab-
lishment of the OXnards at Chino. The
new concern is building at Los Ala
mitos, which is seven miles east of
Long Beach, and nine miles west of
Anaheim. OF such large proportions
is the undertaking that the Southern
Pacific Company has built a branch
railway to the factory site.
The projectors of the affair are w.
A. Clark, of Butte, Montana, a forty
times millionaire; his brother, j. Ross
Clark, w. \. Clark, Jr., &. Y. Miller
and e. G. Dyer. These are also the
officers and stockholders of the com
pany, which is capitalized at D. 100000.
The corporation is close one, none of
the stock being held outside of the
gentlemen named. The buildings and
machinery will cost 100000 and the
capacity of the factory will be 700 tons
of beets day.
The men interested made a thorough
examination of all the available loca-
tons i'm Southern California before Sc
Letting Los Alamtos, and made that
place their choice because of the inn
mense area of alluvial loamy soil that
is necessary for successful beet cul-
ture. That region has for centuries
been overlooked by the Los Angeles
river. until the silt deposited has
formed possibly the richest body of
land in the state. There are fully 3d.
600 acres in the immediate vicinity of
the factory suitable for beet culture,
while 5000 acres will supply enough
material to keep the plant operating
to its ful capacity.
An interesting point about the Ala
mitos factory is the fact that all of
its machinery is of American manu-
facture. Until within a year or so,
makers of beet sugar have claimed
that it was necessary to use German
machinery, and the OXnards imported
large quantity. But recently firm
at Cleveland has been making such
machinery, with such excellent results
as to cause most manufacturers to dis
card the foreign-made machines. The
two systems last season had a con-
elusive test; plant from Cleveland
was operated at Iehigh, Utah, handl-
ing the same quantity of beets as was
used by German plant at Norfolk,
| Nebraska. The former produced the
same results as the latter, at much less
expenditure of fuel and labor.
The factory will employ from 100 to
$50 men, besides affording a ready cash
market to any number of farmers,
thus circulating every year immense
1 sums of money. One immediate good
effect it has had is the subdivision of
large neighboring rancho, and its
rapid settlement by small land own
ers. The building will be completed
in season to handle the crop that will
be planted in a short time. 1t is prob
able the owners will soon be induced
to build one or moreo Their factories
as efforts are being made in other 10
calities to inducet hem to provide g
market there for sugar beets. In fact
some enthusiasts go so far as to hole
that the beet will soon be the staple
product of Southern California, anc
that the sugar supply of the country
will come from this locality.