Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-29
One viii be Organized in the
Interior Department.
WHAT SEC. WILSON Is DOING
Experimenting with Various Kinds
Of Tobacco - Great improvements
In Manufacture Of ueet Sugar

New York, June 29-Secy. Hitch
cock announced after the cabinet meet
ing, says "A Washington dispatch to the
Tribune, that he Is preparing TO or
ganize forestry bureau in the interior
department to carry out an extensive
system Of reforestration somewhat on
the plan successfully pursued In Ger
many. IL was too early to go into
details, he said but the President and
his colleagues were satisfied with the
practlcabiiity of the scheme aud Inn
pressed with the results which could be
achieved in restoring the rapidly dis
appearing woodlands OF the country.
SeCy. Wilson reported on the work
of his department at the cabinet meet
ing likewise. Afterwards he said.
Il told my associates what we are
doing. Now In tobacco. This coun-
try sells $3000O.O0O worth Of tobacco
and buys $l30OO,OOO Of high priced
varieties, We have to pay $j,O0O,O0O
for Sumatra wrappers. Now, our de"
partment Is teaching the American peo-
pie how TO produce that I'm the United
States. We took the gold medal at
the Paris exposition for the finest SUI
matra tobacco. We have been paying
$1,000. 900 for filler tobacco per year,
mostly Cuban. We are conducting eX-
periments now IN this line OF pr0duc-
ton with the result that we hope TO
see most Of the filler tobacco pro-
duced Ia the United States. For some
Of the very finest varieties we may
have TO 40 10 the tropics, 10 Porto
~ I'm
IL will be only q question Of time when
the United States viii produce all the
tobacco Il wants.
I'VE have been importing wheats 10
improve our own crops In the United
States. AmerlCan-made maCarOn has
been thought inferior 10 the imported.
and the reason FOR this was that we
did not have suitable macarOn Wheats,
We have corrected this, so that lOJ.
900 bushels viii be grown In this COun-
try this year solely for the macaroni
meals. IL viii be only a few years
before we make all our own macarOni.
"The agricultural department is now
sending q man 10 the rice growing
countries OF the east A scientist who
has already returned from Japan has
brought specimens Of rice so much
more suitable for the gulf coast than
that which we formerly had that we
are now producing most Of the rice that
we need, and shall soon produce all that
we use. The second quality or broken
rice we are already sending 10 Porto
Rico.
There viii b. over forty beet sugar
factories In oneraton this year They
have thrown out the imported machine
r" already both In field and factory.
and are using American inventions that
are so much superior that We expect
great development In the business.
The sugar men have borrowed an idea
from the Oh companies, At one Of the
oldest factories IN the United States. in
Utah. they have built three mills
around the factory one OF them %
miles away. from which they run the
Juice from the factories IN pipes 20 the
central station. Eastern capital IS
rapidly developing the beet sugar in
dustry In the arid states through IT.
rlgauon. In thu Arkansas valley, for
instance. s1,oO00oO factories have been
nut IN"