Cañon City record., 1899-04-13
American sssar Beets.

who are in the business and to all
others a brief statement will be q
revelation. One beet sugar factory
at Rome, New York, has completed a
very successful second campaign The
mill at Binghampton, New York, has
closed a successful first campaign,
and others are now projected in that
State. While Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana are not booming beet sugar
quite as industriously as is Michigan
with its state boun.y). they are deep
ly interested. Illinois has a large
beet sugar mill now being equipped
at Pekin for the 1899 crop, and an
other will doubtless be constructed
at Ottawa, III.
The pioneer beet sugar factory in
Wisconsin did not run simply because
of lack of beets sufficiently rich in
quantity and quality for sugar. The
Northwestern Beet Sugar company is
contracting for a plant in Merrillan,
Wisconsin, for which several thousand
acres of beets will be required for
the 1899 crop. In Iowa, South Da-
kota and certain sections of Kansas
the interest is very keen. The two
wellestablished beet sugar factories
in Nebraska have had afavorable sea-
son, and their acreage for 1899 will
probably be double that of any pre-
vious season. A million dollars of
Of Boston's money is going into a
model beet sugar factory near Ames,
Nebraska, in connection with the
Standard Cattle company. Some of
the most prominent and wealthiest of
Boston's fnanciers are interested in
this proposition, which, because of
the remarkable favorable locality and
experienced management, promises tn
be one of the most profitable of all
the beet sugar enterprises. A good
deal of New England money that has
recently been made in copper stock
will be invested in the beet sugar in
dustry at various western points. In
Colorado a sugar mill Of 500 tons
daily capacity has been contracted
for, TO be located at Grand Junction.
in the western part Of the State. and
another large mill is pretty certain to
be built at Pueblo. Several others
are wanted IN that State. The beet
sugar factory at Lehi. Utah, has just
completed its eighth successful CAM
paign with brilliant success. from
both the manufacturing and agricul-
tural standpoints. The new MILL at
Ogden, Utah, has also wound up its
first season. The bee. sugar factory
at Eddy, New Mexico. in the Pecos
valley. is doing fairly well, and others
are contemplated in New Mexico and
Arizona. One or more beet sugar
factory enterprises are being agitated
for in Wyoming. South Dakota. Mon
tana and Idaho
On the Pacific coast the industry
has assumed large proportions. The
biggest beet sugar factory in the
world, located in the Salinas Valley,
California, has a capacity of 1900
tons per day. and with the neighbor-
ing factory at Watsonville will con-
sumo the product Of nearly SO, 900
acres Of beets each year. In fact
these two mills alone pay the farmers
upwards of s.. SOC, 900 each year for
this new crop. The historic mill at
which has been running off
and on for twenty-five years, has of
late been SO successful that its ca
pacity has been doubled, and the same
is interested in the new
mill of the Union Sugar company,
near Santa Maria, which will have q
of 1900 tons of beets per
day. The great beet sugar plant at
Chino, San Bernsrdino county, Cali
fornia. has completed its eighth sea-
son and is contracting for thousands
Of acres of beets of the 1899 crop,
having a capacity of 1000 tons daily.
Its 1897 campaign was extraordinarily
profitable. The Los Alamitos sugar
house is to double its capacity, from
$50 tons to 700 tons of beets per day
of twenty -four hours. Perhaps the
most model establishment Of its kind
in the world is the new 1000 ton
plant of the Pacific Sugar company
at the new town of 0xnard, Ventura
county California. 1t represents an
Investment of $1,000. 900, and large
town is building up about it. The
now l,G00 tons Of beets per
day, will be increased to 1900 tons,
requiring twenty acres Of beets each
day.
So much for beginning in our