El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-08
THE SUGAR BEET
The Process OF Making Sugar Al
Eddy Described By d Cores
pOndent.-pdy Roll Of the Fac
tory Amounts to $500 Weekly.
Sheep Fattened On the Pulp.

Special Correspondence Of the Herald.
CARLSBAD, Eddy, P. o., N. M, June
5.-The Pecos Valley is experiencing
the best and Omcst substantial growth
that it has ever known. All lines OF
, business are increasing and especially
the stock and sugar beet industry.
The Pecos Valley 81 Northeastern
! handle at present and they are making
ARRANGEMENTS to handle more
and have ordered more
engines and cars to handle their
freight business. They shipped over
their road from May to the 31st, 1921
cars of cattle, which averged about "a
head to the car; the cattle were going
to northern and eastern points, mostly
Kansas and Colorado. The movement
will probably stop about June 16. They
expect to handle 1900 cars this month.
All crops are looking we'll all through
the valley. The stockmen are putting in
large fields of alfalfa and expect to do
great deal of feeding in the future.
The sugar beet is also greatly on the
increase they have about $500 acres
planted, the crop is looking we'll and
will yield about 10000 tons of beets at
q low estimate and that will bring the
farmers in about 800, 600 upon harvest
ing. This Is in the vicinity OF Carls-
bad only this means q neat little sum
for one small community and upon one
industry.
Your representative paid visit to
the sugar refinery and found it very IT.
teresting and will try and give de-
scription of the factory so those who
have never seen one Can get some idea
of the magnitude of the work. The
beeLs are first brought in and weighed
and then dumped into their storage
sheds where they are conveyed in
long trough or ditch filled with water
into the factory, where large wheel
takes them up and they are carried up
into large cylinder.
In this cylinder the washing
is completed. From there they
are conducted to the slicer, which cuts
them in long, narrow strips, and then
they are run into some large tanks,
twelve in number. where the juice is
separated from the pulp, then the
juice runs into what is called the lime
tank and then comes the flter1ng pro-
cess. There are five of these filters.
then it is run through the strainers,
which are heavy metal strainers COW
cred with heavy duck, and the juice Is
forced through at pressure OF ABOUT
80 lbs; then into the evaporator, where |
the Juice is boiled down until it is
sugar or sugar and mOlasses together. |
Then it is run through separator.
syrup and then . the sugar is run |
through the bleacher, where it is
b cached out white ;and then con-
Quoted to the dryer, where it is dryed
and sacked ready for use.
The factory is one mass OF machine
~ and it is simply wonderful the pro-
cess and the machinery it requires to
make the sugar. 1t requires six large
boilers and eight large engines to run
this machinery. The Car paign," as
they term the season, for working
up the beets, lasts about four months
and they employ about one hundred
and twenty mer. The pay roll is about
fifteen hun dred dollars week. A re-
cent analysis shows this sugar runs
about eighty four per cent pure and the
beets about fifteen per cent Sacharine.
A ton of beets makes about two hua-
dred pounds of pure sugar.
The sheep men are making arrange
meuts to feed large number of lambs
this fell upon the pulp IF I'm the beet
factory; it was proven last fall that
this industry was success and that
the pulp made a superior quality OF
mutton