The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-03-04
Impressions of a Traveller.


Many people will remember DR.. Me-
earthly, the pleasant gentleman who,
with his wife, visited Mr. aud Mrs. T.
f. frame last summer. lie has return.
cd to his Australian home and the fol-
lowing article is taken from his cores
pondence to a Melbourne paper,
After doing justice to the 'lions" Of
the city we repair eastward At the in
vitatIon Of old and dear friends and put
in few days adventurous sight seeing
amongst the great industries Of the
Jorden Valley at Lehi American Fork
and other thriving towns. Beet grow
ing is carried on here TO an enor'
nous extent ;and the beet-sugar factory
Mt Lehi is probably the larges; Of its
kind in the world We were much i'm
pressed Mt the scientific manner in
which the common folks do everything
here. They never trust to- luck; every
thing is done with mathematical pre-
cision and nicely. The beet crops, for
instance, are not brought according to
their weight or bulk or external APP
pearence. Samples are taken from each
farmers plantation and an exhaustive
qualitative and quantitive examination
is then made, which determines the
amount Of saceharire matter in each
speciman In this way the refinery
people knows exactly how many lbs.
OF sugar per acre each lot will produce.
So the farmers who devote time and
skilful attention to his beet crop so as to
improve its eaccharine qualities gets a
bigger price for his crop than the care
less or unscientiiic farmer who simply
trusts to luck A few of these intelli
gent Mormon farmers introduced into
Victoria would, we feel sure, do heaps
towards lifting our farmers out of their
happy go.lucky style OF doing things
In the manufacture OF the raw material,
too, our colonial rehuer will have much
to learn from his Yankee compeer As
showing the rapid strides the latter has
made over the former it may be mem
toned that the vile-smeling abomInable
"char-end" has long been abolished in
American Ieiineries; lime instead is
used for decolorisng and deodorising
the raw sugar Owing TO the many mil.
lion pounds OF sugar turned out here an
nually there is-an enoimuus byproduct
in the shape Of bect-pGlp. At the end
Of the manufacturing seafon this oh
tains the proportion OF q mountain, and
it il used by the COMPANY TO feed un-
limited herds OF cattle during the long
severe winter months. These are the
cattle which afterwards command such
high prices in the Chicago and Kan
sas cattle markets. As our stay in
Utah happene at that season Of the
year when the people go in for II Wig
orous out oidoors life our kind host in
vitcd us to days drive through the
great canous in the mountains, and
thus we was enabled TO renew cur ac-
quaintance with these awful chasms
through which our train rushed swiftly
weeks before. One never knows how
insigniGcantly little he really is till he
penetrates those awful solitudes on foot.
They are just the places to cure swelled
heads, AMI knock the egotism nut OF
man. soitudes at times, but just now
they are alive with thousands Of people
from all parts OF the country, and the
large eastern cities, seeking their an
lusl complement OF fresh air The
early pioneers who iiIst penetrated these
rugged ravines must have been possess
ed of some hardihood and no enl of
nerve