Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-13

product OF our beet sugar factories, so
that We can make sugar cheaper than
ever II now sells for about cents q
pound. 1 won't tell you just how
cheaply we can make It, for that Is
business secret, but | will say 1t does
not cost us cents per pound. After
we take the sugar out Of the beet we
use the pulp for feeding cattle II
makes excellent feed and fattens the
animals very quickly. The pulp VIII
keep indefinitely, add we can use It
year after the sugar has been taken
out OF IT, II grows sour, but the ami
mails seem 10 like II. We will be feed
ing over 1000 cattle during the com
ins year."
AT A BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
BY this time we had reached the fac
tory q big three-story building filed
with curious machinery. On one side OF
It were two sheds, each OF which II
seemed TO me was half mile long. To
these came long lines Of teams drag
glng wagon loads OF beets. Each team
brought two or more' tons. The beets
were weighed on the wagons before
they were unloaded and the men were
paid cash according 20 the weight.
From the sheds the beets were carried
by water into the factory, elevated by
machinery In great buckets on endless
chains TO the top floor, being washed
by machinery as they went. The next
process was cutting them TO pieces.
This was done by little knives, which
sliced them into pieces about the length
and thickness OF slate pencil. The
pieces looked very much like little
shreds Of mashed potatoes when
squeezed through colander. Each
shred was full OF juice. / picked up
one and bit into It. II tasted sweet, but
II had also a sharp bitter taste much
like that of a raw beet.
GETTING OUT THE JUICE.
The cut beets are next run through
great cauldrOns or cells comprising
diffusion battery. As they go from one
TO the other the sugar water comes out.
Every bit OF sweetness Is extracted, and
at the end without squeezing the sugar
has been taken from the beet and Is
now mixed up IN the form OF dirty
black LIQUID, which looks not unlike INK.
The refuse or pulp is carried or by ma
chinery and is piled W In watts out or
doors for the feeding Of stock.
A PIPE LINE OF SUGAR WATER.
The factory where l saw this done
was twenty-five miles away from the
factory In which the sugar juice Is
turned into sugar. The juice Is pumped
| from one factory to the other through
three Inch pipe. continuous stream OF
sugar water flowing from one TO the
other. This pipe line has Just been
| opened. 1t is twenty-five miles lone,
and Is the longest sugar water pipe
line In the United States. The pipe
enables the Juice TO be extracted almost
| from the beets in the fields and saves
an enormous amount OF money In the
transportation Of the beets.
MAKING SUGAR.
We took the train and followed the
pipe line 10 the factory where the juice
was turned Into sugar First, 1t flows
| into great tanks, each Of which holds
| $500 gallons. Here the Juice is heated;
| II Is mixed with lime TO preclpltate the
dirt. Carbonic acid gas Is introduced,
and by various processes the sugar wa
ter ~ so clarified that II becomes as
white as pure alcohol, II Is now ready
to be boiled into sugar This is done
in great tanks, through which run many
steam pipes, which keep the liquid at
a boiling point. II grows thicker and
thicker, and soon becomes a syrup, Its
color has now changed to light yell
low. 1t Is cleaned again by running
sulphuroue fumes through II, and then
rebolled until II becomes graduated
mixture OF sugar and molasses. This
mixture Is as brown as the brownest
New Orleans molasses you have ever
seen. As you look at Il you wonder
how white sugar can ever come from
II. II you walt moment you can see.
The molasses Is washed, and this not
with water, but by rapidly whirling II
about In sort OF steel tub, which has
walls OF such q fine network that all the
molasses molecules will fly through and
the granules Of sugar be kept back. AZ
you look the tub Is revolving at the
rate Of 1000 revolutions per minute. The
molasses and sugar stick to its walls,
AS II continues TO revolve, the color OF
the walls becomes pale yellow and then
as white as snow. The molasses has
all gone through The net and the white
sugar only remains. As II sticks TO
the wall while the tub Is still revolv-
ing, light spray Of water from a tube
Is busted over It, and within few mo.
ments IL Is as white and clean as the
sugar on your dinner table. II Is now
ready 10 be dried and sacked for the
market. The drying is done In an I'M
mense cylinder, through which steam
pipe runs. As II dries II Is elfted, and
from the cylinder II falls down into
pipe, and from there into one OF the
sugar sacks which you see In ever,
wholesale grocery store.
The molasses is reduced 70 second
grade sugar, much like the cheap
brown sugar which Is made from cane,
After this 1t Is melted over again, clari-
fed and reclarifed until at last II be.
comes as clean and white as the first
sugar WHICH we have already seen.
UTAH'S NEW GOLD MINES.
During this trip 10 the sugar works
I had a chat with Governor Wells on
the present condition OF mining In Utah.
The miners OF the State have never been
more prosperous than they are now.
There are thousands OF men prospect
Ing, and every week or 30 new territory
Is discovered. Some OF the old terri
tory Is developing new mines,
zone Of the most remarkable strikes
We nave Hdu Sdiu
Wells, twas that made by Samuel New
house, man from Pennsylvania. He
came TO Utah about two years ago and
bought the Highland Boy, in the Bing-
ham district. He thought he was buying
low-grade gold mine, and put up
cyanide mill TO work II. AS he went
down. however, he struck one OF the
richest deposits Of copper known 10 the
world. At first he did not say any
thing about the copper. He did not con-
slider II worth working. and covered j,
up and went on with his gold. Later on,
however he discovered it's value. and
since then he has capitalized that mine
at sl2000.C0o IN 81 shares and sold II TO
Eastern parties The stock Is now
worth about $3.50. 20 that the real value
Of the mine Is about $4,000 0OO"
Where In the Bingham district Gov
ernor Wells?" | asked
1T is just about twenty miles from
the city OF Salt Lake" he replied. 1T
Is very rich In silver and gold and cop
per. II Is an old camp that has pro-
duced a great deal In the past"