Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-29

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OF the boilers. As soon as one is full
the manhole is bolted down, water Isl
let in and when it is full it is closed
and steam is turned on and big pres
sure brought to bear. BY Il liberal use
OF water every trace of saccharine is
soaked out. The weakest wafer is put
on the fresh beets until il is rs strong
with saccharine as the beets. Then 1T
is pumped into large open tanks and
treated with lime to purify and refine
it. The sweet water is then strained,
the impurities removed and it is put
into large, closed steel boilers and
| boiled in vacuo. When this is done, it
is sent to the centrifugal machine
on the same principle as :; cream sep
arator, only much larger. Here the,
sugar is taken out and the syrup re-
turned for further concentration. The
sugar is transferred to another build
ing where it is put into barrels, sam
pied, branded and stored ready for
shipment. When completed, no one
can tell beet sugar from refined cane
sugar. There is no beet taste.
Ottumwa the Place.
The factory was well-equipped one
and the foreman and superintendent
| educated Germans. The special ma
chinery was made in Germany. The
small number of factories now in ex-
istence do not warrant the manufac-
ture of this machinery in America. OF
course when it is made in this country
it will be much cheaper. An enormous
amount of water is used in this fac
tory, and when / thought, of my home
town, l said, II guess We'll not have a
beet sugar factory right away" Water
is supplied from two wells, dug in the
Illinois river bottoms and about three
million gallons are used avery day. 1t
does seem that in Ottumwa YOU
have all the essentials-the Des Moine.
river, with a good wide bottom, plenty
of coal and we can raise the beets.
| John Morrison.
From Wednesdays Daily.
The names of twenty-five persons
We're added to the business mems sug-
ar beet committee alta meeting of that
body last evening, thus enlarging it's
scope and insuring a more thoro can
vass of the situation. Besides examin-
ing the poll lists Of Center, part of
Dahlonega and Highland and all of
Agency townships for the purpose Of
securing names of farmers, and allot-
ing ten to each committeeman, other
business Of Importance was transacted.
/ The. committee is very enthusiastic
over the prospect and say that with
any response at all from the farmers
500 acres should be secured
A good attendance was had at the
meeting last evening. A resolution was
adopted to allot ten names of farmers
to each of the committeeman; said
committeeman to use their best en-
deavors to prevail on the farmers to
plant at least five acres of sugar beets.
| 1T was found necessary to enlarge
the scope of the committee by adding
1 twenty-five names to it and the follow
ing persons were selected:
Z. c. French, R. N. McElroy, p.
Leinhauser, George Monroe, d. A. CHS
man, Lawrence Mott, T. Randel, Aug
ust johnson, Palmer Chisman, B. F.
/ SHUTS, August Nelson, George Wiley,
i Henry Montague, Ed Ackert, Henry
4 Alcott, George. Wilson, Milton Giltner,
Frank Mast, Elijah johnson, Xelia
Gephart, William Denny, w. H. Rey-
! nolds, p. L. Springer, Nicholas Winter,
slC. I. McCarroll, Chas. Hall, DR.. c. C.
Powell, A. w. Lee, George Riley, S. B.
Evans, r. H. Moore, j. d. Brown and
d. d. Smith.
Hereafter according to the rule
adopted last evening four members
j will constitute a quorum. This is done
i in order that the lack of attendance Of
members might not hinder the prose-
cufion of the work.
4, A letter was prepared setting forth
the plan that will be pursued in the
preliminary work and it is being mailed
i today to the persons selected to inter-
lyiew the farmers on the matter. These
letters set forth very comprehensiyely
ljust what is expected and the requests
therein made require but little or no
/ time and if followed will insure the
! required acreage being secured. Sec
rotary Emil Fecht said today that if
there was any response at all from the
farmers, 500 acres would, without
doubt, be secured.
i Persons familiar with the soil and
acquainted with the farmers who re-
side in Center, Highland, Dahlonega
and Agency townships, went over the
! poll lists with the committee and a
large number of men were selected
with whom correspondence will be had
by members of the committee.
Il If the people of Ottumwa do not
think that the committee is very much
in earnest in this matter, they are
very much mistaken. There is prob
ability that Ottumwa will secure an
institution that can but add to the
prestige of the town, and the commit.
T tee proposes TO leave no stone UNI
[ turned in securing it and at the same
time confer a benefit upon the farmers
who will be brought into contact with
a means whereby the revenues of their
land may be largely increased.
i THE TITLE CLEARED UP.
The O,Brlen County Farmers Given