Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-27

Particulars OF the Opening Of the Braneh
Plant Last sight.

ESPECIAL To THE "NEWs"l
oct g5-At $3.50 last night tho ma
chinery ln the new sugar factory at
HprIngVille was started up and after q
little preliminary crlnchlug and graf
lng, % settled down tn work. and .
new experiment in the history OF beet
sugar factories ln the United states
was launched forth aa u success.
The start up was witnessed BY Mama
ger n. r. cutler and Superintendent
Nallez. o. well aa nll the employees aud .
lumbar ~ Interested citizens. II T. ea-
tlmntcd that this seasons run VIII DO
completed in 90 days.
For nearly two weeks past a con-
tlnuoun train of wagons, laden with
heets. hnH rolled into the factory from
the contiguous farms. ANA about 1900
tons Of hyutH were deposited ln the
sheds luHt night, preparatory 20 start
Ing the machinery Perhaps 900 toms
u this amount came lu by rail-, from
outside places. paysun got Ia the nrat
shipment. having sent IN three carloads.
30 more can be- received until some m
those already stored have been taken
out
n ia worthy Of note that this la the
frst branch sugar factory ever built In
the United States and la this conuec-
ton 70 f0w particulars might be ui in-
tervHts Ttr factory proper n ~ l.ehl.
twenty-five miles away. The Juice ok
trlctod from tho hHeia 40 the SPRING.
willie branch iE conveyed to- Lfhl ihrnufh
u fvo-luch pipe. There ls "a fail uf near
~ 100 feet between i.ehl and sprlngville,
but 10 this ~ not sufficient 10 facilitate
the How " tho nuld, % pumping ma
chine has been prepared. The Efnvliy
How IL about 100 gallons per minute.
The pump secured Tor this WORK can
create a pressure of 900 pounds. steam
BE- procured by two i00-horsc power
boilers, and ninety -horHc Ais engine
oxcrts the motive power Tor the ma
chlncry.
The building proper IL 100 feet long
and an feet wide and three stories
high in the center There are $4,000
brick In be- walls and chlmncya, rs
perch OF rock in ~ foundation ana Co.,
900 feet ~ lumber In o. various parts.
Work on this factory began ON June y
from which time up 10 rs completion
an average 90 twenty-five men have
been employed. The construction of
spur from The Tinuc Range branch q
the RIO Grnude Western Involved the
grading and laying uf half mile u
railway track. The works are on the
State road. about two miles south Of
the city
tory 10 the series ~ fourteen coils used
in extracting the juice from the bceta.
Each cell has capacity of 10 cubic
fpet OF Juice, and u charged with 20
tons ~ sliced bceta. me Juices extract
cd from the pulp hy process OF steam
ana water circulation. The water pres
sure II furnished By q i.000-gallon tank
Hlxty-fve feet above the works. A cell
~ nilcd and omplticd every seven min
utos. me pulp IN the cells IL carried
through pipes to a large hio, 200 feet
southwest of the cells. into which u IL
dumped This silo a. u cnpacloua thing.
being go feet long eiEhty-nve fcot wide
and ten feet deep. II will hold a5i.0O0
cubic feet OF pulp. which Will prove use
ful Tor futtoninF cattle. The bceta are
stored Ia two great beet sheds, each OF
which are $50 feet Ions and twenty
four feet wide They viii hold 400
tons They are built upon a slope ana
% 900 feet OF lumber was used Ia build
ing them The noor incline Htreply
from both sides 10 the center, whore
u stream uf water passes the boots
ihroueh "a trough 90 the washer IN ths
main building After being cleaned the
brets are hnlst,d Co the third story,
whore thcy ore received By the nlicer.
pipe iH suspended from the bottom
OF the Hlicer, and 10 capable OF being
swung sn that ~ cmptles the sliced
btrts into zach cell iu turn, rht JUICE
iH taken from these cells 90 "a couple ~
tanks. whore DC u subjected 20 chcm-
teal treatment before starting out on
its Journey 90 Lehl
This branch has o capacity NJ iaQ
tons per day m twenty -four hours, ana
win employ about thIrty-hyr men. It
o. thought that i2.o00 90 1900 tons Of
bcets Will be- worked M here