The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-03-26

aud commercial success Of beet sugar
making
OF the thlrty-one factories in operation
, May 81 1900 eight are in California, nine
lin Michigan. three in Nebraska, three in
Utah, two IN New York and one each In
Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mex
leo. Oregon and Washington All but
two of these factories are controlled by
corporations The total capital interest
! ed is t2O,ahS $40, of which $l0,1397 $50 is in
! california, ,4,Ol374S in Michigan and So
1896 in all other States. The total val
ne of The product for the year ending
May 81, 1900 was S,323 ,S57, OF which Cali
furnia furnished 50, 499 1896 Michigan ST.
Coz, 266 and all other States s., 22l 1916
"The small value OF the products, ST.
322 SCI says the report us due to an
enormous shortage in the crop of sugar
beets for the year ending May 81, 1900. In
| all branches Of sugar manufacture the
years of plentiful harvest must carry the
| industry over years of failure and yield
returns that will make the average
/ earnings justify the investments.
/ cot the sixteen new factories, fifteen
! of which wor. operated for the first time
in 1899. several were not completed when
| the harvest was ready. In some in
stances there were serious losses from de-
. torioration Of beets.
! In addition 20 the factories operated in
the census year six, including an auXil-
.
traCted, but no sugar manufactured,
were under construction for the crop OF
1900 A report OF these new factories not
being received, the figures given only APP
proximate the capital invested In the
new factories az $500, 900, making the
total of S24 IT'S, $40 for the new industry in
! the year 1900.
"Of the factories In operation during
the census year ten reported the total
value of their products for the preceding
business year as aggregating sl.S3S6S
The same factories reported product val
ued at 81, 426 b22 for the census year. The
acreage actually contracted for In 1899
was 1880. Because of shortage OF the
crop in various parts OF the country, par
ticularly in California, heets We're actu-
ally harvested from 1O5,l75 acres, and the
average yield from this land eight tons
Of 1900 pounds per acre, was very unsnt-
isfactory. The average yield OF beets
for Germany for crops of 1861 1878
and 1859 respectively was fourteen,
fourteen and thirteen tons per acre.
1.-The acreage seeded for the crop Of
1900 including that for six new factories
having a total nominal daily capacity of
5000 tons of beets, was only 12l40l, where
as approximately 100000 acres would
have been required fully to supply the
demand Of the factories in operation dur
ing that year.
The total product of sugar during the
year ending May 81, 1900, was United
States, 163, AIS 075 pounds: California &c.
H1.713 pounds; Michigan, 33, 70S 2S3 pounds;
all other, AZ 00s,079 pounds.
DR.. Spencer says: In 1899, as shown
by the census statistics in this report the
number of factories operated was thirty,
with an output of 79,99S short tons of su
gar. The total quantity OF cane and
beet sugar OF domestic manufacture, as
reported in Willett & Gray's circular in
1899, was 229,537 short tons, showing that
the production of beet sugar was then
approximately rs per cent Of the total SUI
gar produced in the country from sugar
cane and beets The American beet SUI
gar factories now have a nominal daily
capacity of 22.3l0 short tons of beets,
and, when fully supplied with raw ma
terial, should easily manufacture 100000
short tons Of sugar per annum."