The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-05-10
Oxnard, California

beet sugar factory OF Ventura county
will be known. The new town 10 build
ing with all the appointments Of
modernized city. Numerous houses are
in the course Of construction, concrete
sidewalks are laid out and building
about many blocks, and water mans
are being laid in the streets to be fed
from the artesian well in the middle of
.he site, and all this follows in the wake
of the erection OF beet sugar factory.
To reporter Of the Ventura Signal,
Chief Engineer Bauer Of the big
enterprise, expressed himself as fol-
lows:
"The best proof Of the way we feel
about the outlook is evidenced in the
work we have already accomplished. 1t
speaks for itself. There it is. Since
March /, we have put up that pile o.
iron. We will finish it tomorrow.
The building is 400 feet in length, as
long as two Ventura blocks. 1t lie 100
feet wide, and twill run 90 to 60 feet
inheight-The machinery for the sugar
making is on the way, and it will be
here any day, and will be coming every
day for months. 1t will be put in as
rapidly as it arrives. We will be in
time for the farmer and his crop. We
will be better than gold mine to him,
for we build for all time.
Gan we ssk is that he does his share.
He must not throw up his hands like
this. with the choicest climate and soil
and most beautiful valley IN the world.
And right here under his feet is water
water in amplitude. 1t is well known,
and have further demonstrated 1t
There is great pent-up reservoir at a
deptb of 1870 to $50 feet under this val
lev. It ia fed from the great Sierra
watershed and is kept in here by the
ocean. When it is tapped it bo1ms to
+he surface. A well Of three inches has
snouted ten feet. Another have just
finished. ten inches in diameter, with
nm eieht-inch sand pump stuck in its
bottom. lifts water six feet above the
surface. Within radius OF few
hundred feetI will put down other wells
One Of these will be fourteen inches il
diameter. / have no fear that the fioy
from one will deminish the flow OF tn
other.
GA three-inch we'll can be sunk for
trifle. mparatively speaking.
hundred dollars will cover the cost, ant
it's flow will lrrigate many acres OF thu
fine. moist soil. The farmers will b
independent OF rains then. The bee
will hunt for water long way down
WHY. in Paris / saw beet whose fin
silky tendrils had gone down twenty
three feet. Six feet below the surfac
here we could not get rid OF the water
Law the cement foundation for tn
smokestack. The men worked IN III
water. 1t was inconvenient, but tn
foundation will be just as good
"Our machinery will be the mos
modern in the world, and our outpr
nothing but the finest and purest gram
lated sugar" said Mr.. Bauer in con
clusion.
In conversation with Major Drift
the genial general superintendent,
was learned that some 1000 acr
could be planted to beets witho'
further moisture, and the arrangement
were making to irrigate some 1000 acr
in addition, and every acre that 1t
nossible 20 reach with artesian water.
Work at the factory is going on rapi'
Nv. VIM. r. King has charge OF Il
iron work construction. From the WI
he is handling the stupendous pie
knows his business. A feature OF Z
work will be the lime kiln. This W
he the largest in the world, and W
tower up over hundred feet. A Il
hundred feet west from the landma
will arise another as conspicuous, I
IRON smokestack, which Engineer kl
saws will rear its block proportions
100 feet. 1t will have neither stay
brace other than its cement, brick a
stone foundation, but will be able
resist wind blowing ninety-hve mi
an hour. This smokestack VIII be