The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-13
ABOUT BEET SUGAR
Growth of the Industry
Has Been Quite Rapid.
Outlook Promises a Further In
CreaSe-FactorieS in Operation
The Average Yield.

The San Francisco Trade Journal of
February oath, says: The growth of
the beet sugar industry in this coun
try has been quite rapid within the
past two years, and the outlook prom
Uses a further expansion in the indus
try. The following factories were in
operation in 1898, with statement of
their daily capacity in tons:
Alameda Sugar Co., Alvarado, Cal. 500
Binghamton, B. S. Co., Bingham
| ton, n. Y. 500
California Beet Sugar & Refining
Co., Crockett, Cal. ............. 500
Chino Valley Beet Sugar Co., Chi
no, Cal. .......... .lUUU
First New York Beet Sugar Co.,
| Rome, n. Y. .................... 200
Los Alamitos Sugar Co., Los Ala
mitos, Cal $500. ............. 700
Michigan Sugar Co., Bay City,
Mlcn. ooo
Minnesota Sugar Co., st. Louis
Park, Mimi. ........ .......... sou
Norfolk Beet Sugar Co., Norfolk,
| Nab.. ............. $50
Ogden Sugar Co., Ogden, Utah -. $50
Oregon Sugar Co., La Grande, Ore. $50
Oxnard Beet Sugar Co, Grand Is
| land, Neb. ......... ........ 3oO
Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Co., Eddy,
| New Mexico. ...-. ZOo
Utah Sugar Co.. Lehi, Utah $50. $50
Wisconsin Beet Sugar Co., Gin
liquidation) Menominee Falls,
| Wis. ............... ...... zoo
| Total -. ........... o4oo
Factories building, nearly completed:
Spreckels Sugar Co, Spreckels
(Salinas), Cal. .3oo0
Pacific Beet Sugar Co., Oxnard,
Cal. 49,. .............. .looo
Union Sugar Co., Santa Maria,
| Cal. ....... ......... ...'..''.. ooo
Besides the above there are three
more that will be in operation this
wear and situated at Grand Junction
Colorado; Bay City, Michigan; and
Pekin Ill. Besides these, six other
companies, the organization of which
lis well advanced, are expected to be
located at Rochester, Cairo, Benton
Harbor, West Bay City, Monroe and
Alma, Mich. Factories are also planned
for Lyons and Dunkirk, n. Y, Grand
Haven, Port Huron and Kalamazoo,
Mich, and Springsville, Utah. Rum
ors are also afloat of plants to be built
at Penn Van, n. Y, Toledo and San
dusky, Ohio, Corunna, Alpena, Mount
Clemens and Tawas City, Mich, Ham
let Ind, Omaha, Neb., Sioux Falls. 5.
D., and Fresno, Cal. Regarding boun-
ties, the Washington Legislature has a
bill before it giving bounties to the in
dustry confined within it's borders;
that in Indiana has been defeated,
! while in Illinois the Legislature has a
bill in both houses giving bounty. In
Michigan the new bounty has caused
a large expansion of the industry. In
Nebraska the industry is reported
thriving, but the bounty experiment is
not success. In Minnesota the boun-
ty will probably be continued two
years longer. In Iowa, the State is
making experiments to determine
whether sugar beet growing can be
carried on with profit. Kansas has
been found to be outside the beet belt"
The average yield of the 1898 crop
has been from ten to twelve tons, CIV
ling the farmer a gross revenue of from
$40 to $54 to the acre. AS the cost of
raising beets, through a better under
standing of the crop learned by eXper-
fence, is never more than $50 per acre,
and more frequently less, it will be
seen that there is no other crop that
can compare to beets for profit. While
the average yield has been ten to
twelve tons per acre, there are eXcep-
tional cases where the yield far eX-
ceeded that, the largest on record be-
ing one field of five acres from which
were harvested 120 tons of beets.-Nor-
folk (Neb) News