Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-09
MAMMOTH SUGAR FACTORY.

Next year the Utah Sugar Co.'S fac
tory at Lehi will have IT'S capacity
trcbled, which means that 1t viii work
the juice from 1000 10 100 tons Of beets
| per day, the sliciug at Lehl, Spring,
| vile and the new plant 60 De erected
In Salt Lake county going on stimuli
taneOusly. This seems Ike a pretty big
plant but It is In reality about one
third the size OF the great beet sugar
factory az Spreckles, California.
This is the largest beet sugar fac
tory In the world Il is owned by the
Spreckels Sugar Co., Of which Mr.
Claus Spreokels Is president and Ia
located at Spreckels Cal, on the bank
Of the Salinas river, twenty miles from
Us mouth and y0ur miles from the city
Of Salinas and on the Salinas Valley
railroad The company owns and
operates two narrow gauge roads. one
To- WatFonyille and the other 10 the lime
quarrles. The factory drainage finds
a ready access into the Salinas river
and thence 10 the sea. while from above
The mill a stream leaves the river and
furnishes water for the washers and
other coarse operations The water sup
ply for the diffusion batteries and other
machinery, where q very pure article
Is required, comes from six fif,y-fOot
wells Altogether about 100000 gal
Ions are consumed daily
The buildings consist OF the factory
proper 5S2Xl02 IT,. boiler house 55gx6S
IT,: machine shop, 5j9xl0 H.. oil house.
pump house, warehouse. office building
and beet sheds. These sheds are five
IN number each $40 feet long. and have
combined capacity Of 10000 tons Of
beets Within each shed are two fumes,
Is inches deep at the dump and - feet
al the factory and between the fumes
r. an elevated railway to convey cars
laden with beets which are dumped au-
tomatlcally. The main building contains
all the machinery necessary for pro-
ducng either the raw or refined prod
uCt There are four diffusion batteries
Of fourteen cells each and four sets OF
washers, elevators, slicers and scales 20
correspond, There are eight diffusion
Juice heaters. twelve saturation tanks
twenty-five filter. presses, two sets
quadruple effects, one double effect, ten
sulphur saturatlon tanks seven vacuum
pans forty-eight crystalizers, seven
mixers. tWenty-eight centrfugals and
numerous pumIs engines, motors,
ttNkHs fitAdt' tkEst 70 thIIfolfnllhs
Besides being llghte1 by electricity, the
factory Is 10 a great extent operated by
IT, The rest OF The machinery ~
operated by steam produced In forty
eight boilers at l25 horse power each,
stationed In the boiler house. These
boilers consume 1,2e0 barrels Of oil daily.
The boiler house also contains the steel
line kllns which rise 80 feet through
the roof. and the other apparatus for
mixing and pumping the lime TO the
factory. IN.
The factory has a daily capacity Of
1900 tons Of beets and win require the
product Of $4,000 acres yearly for fun
run OF this area the company will be
able to supply a good portion. as II
owns large ranches In both the Salinas
and Pajaro valleys. The company's
capital Is 100000. Of which tho
Spreckels factory represents $4,000. 600.
the Watsonyilleisl4O0O and the ranches
above mentioned, with their irrigation
systems, etc, the remainder.