The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

it is absolutely up-to-date in every re-
spect. It is the product OF the year
Just passed, the work Of erecting the
buildings having began ia July and the
factory starting on its first run on
Nov. To- The factory has a capacity Of
$50 tons Of beets per day. and viii
manufacture 100000 pounds of sugar
from $4,000 tons of beets, which has
paid to the growers at the rate Of $4-l5
per ton the snug sum OF $lO6,z50. For
an initial year the factory has made
a record breaking run, and shows more
than possible anything else the adj
vancement the beet sugar Industry has
made since its start ten years ago. IL
proves that the experimental stage mas
been passed and that the farmers nave
learned the secret of growing the crop
and every detail Of its manufacture
into sugar has been mastered.
May Enlarge Plant.
This factory is so constructed that
at a cost Of 500, 900 1t can be enlarged
to double its present capacity, and
judging from the popularity to which
the indusery has attained in one sea
son the time IS not far distant when
the addition win have to be made. The
ITCH SUI VI AdtAE valley EEElli1 ~ "
/ peculiarly fitted TO the production Of
the tubers. as high as thirty tons to
the acre having been produced, which
contained 10 per cent OF sugar, or 200
pounds to the ton.
Taken altogether, the showing for
! 1901 is a remarkable one in the Utah
sugar industry. The combined output
Of the three factories is S2,OO0,0O5
pounds. which, at 81 cents per pound,
/ gives the sum of Sl,760O00.
The estimated consumption Of sugar
| for the state amounts to the sum OF
/ 81 900 000 which makes the state an
! exporter to the amount of $4,000. The
/ Utah sugar has been pronounced by
| exDerts to be as fine an article as any
/ nut Ipon the market in the world. II
! is much in demand by the merchants OF
/ the entire intermOuntain country,
! great amount of it going to Montana,
/ Idaho, wyoming and Nevada.
Outlook For Industry.
/ The outlook for the future Of the
/ sugar beet industry is very fiatterinE.
/ The three factories in operation at
/ present are doubtless only the pioneers
/ in Utah. During the year the Utah
Sugar company has acquired in Bear
/ River valley a tract of country that
! mas every AAlONA dl hrlLAN1t1E ADA NAA~
production of the tubers in their high
/ est perfection. A considerable acreage
! will be planted to beets in the valley
the coming season. Seeing that by the
| end of 1902 there viii be $4,000 acres OF
land under irrigation, il is only Ques-
ton of a short time at the farthest
/ when another sugar factory will have
| to be constructed. The enlargement OF
the plants already constructed is only
| 4. question Of time. Utah now occupies
the fourth place among the beet sugar
/ producing states of the United States.
Colorado has lately assumed the third
! place. with California in the first and
/ Michigan in the second. With the
/ present rate Of increase kept up Tor
the next decade the other states will
have to look out for their iaurels.
Bear River Enterprise.
In addition to the growth Of beets
for sugar, the Utah Sugar company is
to establish d sugar beet plant seed
farm in the Bear River valley. It has
been demonstrated that the irrigated
lands and the climate Of Utah are eX-
actly fitted to produce the seed. This
viii add a new industry to the state,
the profits Of which there is no way at
present to demonstrate.
All dLLtllUL " d. 4lluuE ~ LAAE aNEeAA
trust to brighten beet sugar people by
choosing the Missouri valley as the
place where most Of the beet sugar
was consumed, to lower the price of
! all classes of sugar to IL cents below
| other sections Of the country. The beet
sugar men view this with cOmplacency,
feeling that congress viii not play into
the hands of the trust by removing the
price on raw sugar from the outside
world and thus ruin an industry which
! in a few years at most viii be able "a
supply all that is wanted Of this aru-
Gle for home consumption and thus
save 500 100000 annually to the trade
/ balance of the country. The year 1901
saw the greatest advance in the indus
try ever known in the United States
and it is a matter of pride to the citi-
zens of Utah that their state con-
tributed so largely to the grand result
Soaring Up the Jack Rabbits.