The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-21
TO MAKE BEET SUGAR.
A Factory to Be Established in Salem
Very Soon.

Very Soon.
They are talking Of establishing
factory in Salem for the manufacture of
beet sugar. W. " Gull, who was in
from Salem today stated that two or
three meetings have recently been held
there and that at one of them COM
mittee had been appointed to go to
Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County,
for the purpose Of seeing the factory
there and making a report. Another
meeting was held Thursday morning
for the purpose of hearing the report OF
this committee, but up to press time
we have been unable to find out what
was recommended by the committee.
The Factory at Menomonee Falls.
The factory at Menomonee Falls, a
village situated on the Milwaukee q
Superior Railway, about 10 miles north
west of Milwaukee on the c., M. & st.
P. and N w. Rys. is due to the
efforts Of Z. g. Korn, who has patient
ly worked for it's advancement for
long time past. The president of the
company is James L. Gates, of Mil
waukee Mr.. Korn is general manager,
having the entire charge of the work
from designing the factory to installing
the machinery. The building is sub
stantial brick structure; its length
north and south, is 240 feet; its width
averages 50 feet. The building cost
$42, 900 and the entire factory complete
will cost not to exceed 100000, Mr.
Korn states. In this sum, however,
there is no allowance to the manager
for any of his work, this being given
gratis.
The capacity of this factory is 275
tons of beets per day of twenty
hours Mr.. Korn states that he will be
able to operate this factory with two
shifts of fifty men each, one working
by day and the other by night. He
claims that owing to improved machin-
cry, and the arrangement of the same,
he can operate this factory with about
half the force required in European
factories. The water for washing the
beets comes from the MenOmOnee river,
near by; water for use in the diffusion
cells and elsewhere comes from an ar
tesian we'll on the grounds. The COM
pany has a ten year contract with 800
farmers for growing beets.
The greater portion of the machin-
cry is now in place and the completion
Of the factory is being pushed very
rapidly. About $4,000 tons of beets
were raised by the farmers in the vicin
ity of the factory the past season. A
large portion Of these are stored in the
factory yard in ventilated pits; the rest
are held by the farmers. According to
Mr. Korn, the yield of beets this year
has been over twelve tons to the acre,
and they will average II per cent.
sugar.
Although this factory was not able
to start on time, there is really nothing
discouraging IN the situation, but,
rather, the future is full Of hope. In
evidence of this there is the large ton
mage of beets grown by the farmers the
present season, when all was new to
them, and the relatively high sugar
content of these beets. Such crop of
beet roots of such high quality the first
season gives assurance Of the factory
running to it's full capacity in coming
years.
Our readers are reminded that it will
require three such factories as that at
Menomonee Falls to supply the sugar
consumed by the city of Milwaukee
alone, while about twenty five will be
required to produce the sugar consumed
in Our state