The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-12
After the asugsr.,'

From Minneapolis comes the news
that the beet sugar refinery near that
city is in full blast, converting beets
into refined sugar at q tremendous
pace. Three hundred tons of sugar are
being turned out daily. and the mill
Is running night and day 1t began
turning out sugar on the 24th inst,
and it is stated that the full capacity
Of the mill. 400 tons daily, will be
reached in a few days We are further
told that the Eastern stockholders
were there and met the local promoters
and there were general congratula-
tons on the success of the enterprise"
Among the latter. the promoters. was
ex-State Senator Henry Keller, and We
suspect that he gave the papers the
statements above summarized. KEEL
ler's Imagination, when at work at any
pie in which he has one or more fin
gers, disdains facts as mere trivialities
If Minnesota bets average y per cent
of saccsarine matter. il will require 81
tons of beets to make a ton of sugar,
and the 500 tons OF daily output will
require some 1850 tons Of beets TO be
ground. Allowing a yield of 10 bushels
OF l60 acres to run that mill one day.
When it gets 10 running TO it's fun
capacity" it viii chew up $500 tons
Of beets daily. the product Of 226 acres
of land
It requires but slight compu-
tation TO ascertain that bounty
of one cent a pound is $50 a
ton. and that this mill. at 800 tons
a day. is reaching into the state treas
ury al the rate OF $4,000 a day. to be
increased to $4,000 as soon as it's full
capacity" is reached. Should the
campaign" as the sugar making sea-
son is called. run thirty days, ii is evil
dent that the refinery viii have
pull on the state treas
ury for between slSO.OeO and S240.
600, fully one-half OF the entire cost
Of their plant. If they pay the beet
growers "a a ton, the Nebraska and
California rate, the raw material of a
ton OF sugar costs them $34. For this
tor Of product, assuming that they get
present trust prices. 81 cents, they
Will get sos. plus the $40 state bounty
o. $l25. The difference between cost
or material, s34. and sl25, represents
the margin out of which comes cost of
converting. OF administration and the
sugar" for the proprietors. Ninety
one dollars Is a very liberal margin
for all these factors.
AS The G 0 b stated during the
discussion OF the bounty bill, it would
hail with pleasure the installation Of
the industry OF producing beet sugar;
that experiments had shown it to be
feasible and profitable without state
aid; but that, as a believer in Demo-
cratic government, as an opponent
TO the entrance OF socialism into gov
eminent, it would regard the install
lation OF that or any other industry
by state aid as a calamity, not merely
in the diversion OF the bounty from
the taxpayers pockets through the
treasury into the pockets of the re-
finers, but in the propulsion it would
give to other schemes and the encour-
agement il would afford to the already
threatening advances of state social
ism. It believes now, as It stated then.
that the appropriation of public mon
ey 10 aid this private enterprise is a.
violation OF the constitution more fla
grant than was the state elevator act
which the supreme court declared in
valid.