The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07
DORADO SATURDAY, JANUARY T. 1899


the greatest beet sugar districts of the
country, Plans for buildings are now
bein prepared, and these will soon be
submitted to the incorporators for their
approval.
The plans are being drawn at the dir
ection of experts who have made a loug
study Of beet sugar production, and the
plant will represent an outlay of many
thousands OF dollars, as the product
must be manufactured on an extensive
scale in order to return the beet profit
The plant will have a capacity of many
hundred tons of beets per day. The
main factory will have an immense floor
a space, which will be practically covered
with the costly and heavy machinery
necessary to the production OF beet sug-
ar.
The location of q largo beet sugar
plant at Grand Junction will result in
giving an impetus to Colorado's live
stock industry, as fully three fourths of
the beets are turned out in pulp and
form excellent feed for cattle and sheep.
This feature of the industry is covered
in the Incorporation papers.
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand
junction have known for five years that
eventually they would be in the heart OF
great beet sugar district, said an ex-
pert who has been identified with the
work OF promoting the new company.
They have been educated up to the idea,
and have been quietly experimenting
until they know just what their land
can produce. Why, there is sample
acre there that has produced 10l tons
10 being a good average.
The Grand Junction district is pecu-
liarly adapted for sugar beet culture.
There is moro water at hand than in all
the rest of the state, and know of 40.
place is surrounded with coal lands, and
coke can be secured at New Castle.
Then there is the purest Of lime rock at
Thomasville, lime being used in the
Qualification of the sugar.
In Nebraska and other beet sugar
producing states, the farmers are handi-
capped by late, wet falls, which results
in second growth and destroy the quail
ity Of the sugar Irrigation is more
certain than the weather. of course, and
then the dry falls in Colorado insure
perfect crop e-eh season. Then, in the
matter in the matter Of labor in the
fields, there are 200 Indians in the gov
ernment Indian school, near at hand,
and these will be available when the
beets are taken from the ground.
No, there is not the least danger. ow-
ing to the admission OF Hawaii, and the
probable admission Of other sugar pro-
ducing islands to the Union. Claus
Spreckles, head OF the sugar trust, has
been enabled to import his raw sugar
from Hawaii, free of duty for ten years.
He has had his great refineries in Cali
fornia, but, in spite Of being unhamper-
ed in his work, he has established two
of the greatest beet sugar plants in the
country in California, which indicates
that he has not much fear of the bottom
being knocked out OF the market, owing
to the expansion.
The Utah Sugar company is just clos
ing up its banner year and while its crop
is about the same as that OF '96, the av-
erage sugar contents of 1850 tons OF
beets which it will have cut when it
makes it's fpal close up, will give an av-
erage polarization Of 3-1O OIL per cent
over that Of the latter season.
hereby give an approximate amount
Of material that will have been used
during the season:
Amount paid for beets ... 100000
GOAL. now
Coke. 2OO
Limestone l,UOO
Slicing knives Observation-Disclosures. 800
Sulphur, pounds. 1900
Duck cloth, in yards ......... 5000
Burlap, yards. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Filter bags. .6OO
Burlap sugar bags. .......... $4,000
Cotton sugar bags, .95, 900
Twine, pounds. 200
Lubricant oils, gallons. ............ 1000
Tallow, pounds. 49, 600