The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1900-10-25
A Visit to the Sugar Factory

Lal Lake City at 8. 45 haying on board
the following gentleman accompanied
by { heir wives; Hon. G.. Q Cannon,
Pres idcnt Of the Utah Sugar Co., Pres.
JOSEF VI +. Smith, NJ. w. Merrill, Owen
Wood ruff, Bp. w. B. Preston, j. r.
Wind, VI. 7. X. Burton, Barlow Furgu-
son, A. Holden, @. Piper, f. A. Smith,
G. Fox, G., X. Savage, r. d. MiIlet,
w. w Refer, G.. II. Taylor, DIR. White,
T. q. Webber, Ii. b. Kooser, Mrs. w.
s. Mccormick and Miss McKaskell.
On reaching the company's works at
Lehi the train was stopped and the
following gentlemen joined theI.party.
Manager T. r. Cutler, Supt. Vallcz,
Chief Engineer ingalls,, supt. George
Austin, Mayor NJ Evans, Z r, Pat
terson, G. A. Smith and James Kirk
ham, also q number OF Ladies. The
run down to springvile was very
pleasant. On arriving at the factory
the company was shown through the
building by manager Cutler and his as.
sistants. A new feature at this Fac
tory was the carrying OF the pulp from
the factory by water in large pipe 10
the slo, which is not yet done at the
Lei factory. After viewing the sights
at the factory the next place Of interest
was the great silo where we saw the
pulp coming from the factory. There
were about 20 teams loading the pulp
and carrying 1t away to the farmers for
feeding purposes, which costs them
about Acc ton. From here the COM
pany took the train for Lehi, when on
arrival lunch was announced by Man
CERT. R. Cutler and all we're invited to
the Co. Hotel where a number Of tables
we're spread with a most elegant repsst
consisting of everything that was de-
icous to the tastes OF the most fast
idious. After lunch Manager T. r.
Cutler welcomed the company to the
factory TO see the vast improvements
that had been made since their last
campaign. lie remarked that about 10
years ago there were abont a Sugar Fac
tories IN the u. s. but today there are
about %, Lehi having the fourth that
was built aud today is one OF the largest.
lie referred TO their struggle in 1902 and
81 said low the work had grown from
the Co. uslng 10000 tons of beets while
today they will use about to 5000
tons aday at the factories. He referred
TO his visit TO the factories in France K
Germany referring TO the difficulties
they had to i1dure in making sugar.
instead OF 700 farmers raising beets, to-
day rs the first year OF the factory run.
We have some | 900 ingaged in the in
dustry. lie said he believed that small
farms well tiled paid He referred to..the
able corpse of help he had about him
and spoke OF rome improvements that
would have to be made in the near tut
: ure, he then introduced Pres. G. O
Cannon who said he was very pl easec
to meet with the company and view th,
wonderful improvements, he referred 10
the glourious future Of the industry, h,
spoke of the Lehi factory as being th,
onlyone in the U. S. having two auxil-
larry factories and using over 40 miles
of piping to carry the juice to the msir
factory. While in France 10 miles was
the longest pipe used, he said he would
like to see good feelings exist with tn,
farmers towards the beet sugar industry
said the people here in Utah has tn,
climate, soil, and water the best for tn
raising OF beets, he h oped TO see the U
S. raise enough beet sugar to suppl,
our country.
After his remarks the factory was Wis
tied and everybody enjoyed it with won
der and amazement. The vast building
and improvements, we found in CONVEX
sation about l25 tons OF coal was burned
by % boilers every "a hours, and some
go cars OF coal was standing In the yard
ready to be unloaded. When all was
satisfied with the visit and all were on
the train Manager Cutler gave each OF
the company small sack of pure white
sugar as souvenir in remem berance
of the day. At S:l5 the train left for
Bingham Junction and on Its arrival the
company was shown through the build
ing which is some what larger than the
springville Factory. Here we found
Mr. j, Gardner in charge with ]. B.
Gaddie as assistant and large
number OF men and boys Employed. At
$3.50 Salt Lake was reached without a
jar or accident to mar the enjoyment Of
the company.
j, X, Reporter.