Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-29
What a Beet Sugar Factory Can Do.

The second year Of experiments with
beets in and round Santa Fee,
and in the Espanola valley, has just
and like the first, the analysis
of beets grown shows great richness in
and a very high per cent of pur-
ity. Last year much interest was taken
in the matter, but this year the culture
of beets has been carried on without
any fuss or noise. That a beet sugar
factory, located at Santa Fe, and ON
Stunning the beets grown in the imme-
ate vicinity of the city, for which thous-.
ands of acres of land are available, and
those raised in the Rio Grande valley,
both north and south within a distance
of % miles, in each direction, would be
a benefit to the entire county, no one
can question; in fact an enterprise of
that kind would transform the entire
scope of country coming under the in
fluence of the factory.
What a sugar factory can accomplish
for a community is, perhaps, best told
by a correspondent of the New York
Post, writing from Los Angeles, Calf,
regarding the Chino beet sugar factory.
He says:
1T would be hard for one who has
never been in the locality of a modern
beet sugar factory to realize what Won
derful changes such an institution
brings about in a few years in an agri-
cultural community. For illustration,
take the Chino factory. The walls for
it were laid in January, 1891. Only a
huddle of ranch houses and barns were
then at what is now the prosperous
of Chino. AS far as the eye could
reach. nothing but sag brush, cactus
and wild mustard could be seen. Jack
rabbits and coyotes We're numerous. A
marvellous transformation has been
made in hat part of Pomona valley
since the factory started. The town of
Chino, with a population of 1000 per-
sons, public park, oil refinery, a big
$12, 900 school house, bank, stores, news
paper. pretty homes, streets and aven-
eNb' iit' Sio'll up oIiNi 10 VI VI tllN
fastest growing communities in the
state. From the vantage ground of the
factory one may look off on a lux
ious agricultural landscape. Nearly
1000 acres of beets grow there this sea-
son.
The opportunities offered for money
making by ten Of thousands of Ameri-
when the beet sugar industry
will have been established in the United
are great. This country paid
foreigners for sugar in 1894, 1924, 400, 900, |
IN 1895, $13S, 200, 900, and in 1896, $143,-
300, 900. We ought to keep every dollar
IF that at home. The Americans are
now producing but o~ne-eleventh of all
the sugar they consume, and we could
produce it all in the southwest. 1t will
years-a generation, no doubt-be-
,ore there. can be any cry of too much
competition in the making Of our own
oeet sugar. If this nation produced it's
own sugar, 623 factories the size of that
Chino would be necessary. They
would cost over 500, 900, 900. Think of
he vast army of men who would find
in building these factories,
n constructing machinery for them,
in keeping them in repair. If this
nation produced all the sugar it con-
nearly $50, 900 men (allowing 240
men for each factory, as at Chino
would be taken from other and over
pursuits to work in the sugar
'actories. Over 500, 900 men would be
employed in growing sugar ,beets for
actories, n not less than 5000, 900
lcres of land, now either idle property
n used for growing general farm crops,
would be used exclusively Gas in the
sugar beet sections of France and Ger
nany) for growing sugar beets."
Analysis of beets in all parts of the
United States has shown beyond a
of a doubt that the beets grown
n the vicinity of this city are the rich4
,st in sugar and the highest in purity
hat have been produced anywhere. In
to that part of culture of beets
ii lIllS StCllOI anu dIllluQG, the ylGlu I
acre is much larger than in Nebras-
"a or California, and more than in the
amous Pecos valley, where the grow
ng of beets has been made an equali-
led success.
In the past ear the New Mexican
as urged the business men and proper
Y owners the desirability of establish
ng a factory in or near the city; has
out the advantages of the loca-
ion, and shown by facts and figures
he advantages to be derived by inter-
sting capital in the enterprise, and it
gain calls attention to the matter.
he correspondent of the New York pa
er states that it will require 1923 fac.
ories the size of the one which has
SO wonderful a change at Chi
o, to supply the demand for home con-
umption Of sugar, and certainly with
1e advantages possessed by Santa Fe, !
his city ought to be the location of one
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