The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-23

and commercial success of beet sugar
making.
OF the thirty-one factories in operation
May 81, 1900, eight are in California, nine
in Michigan, three in Nebraska, three in
Utah, two in New ork and one each in
Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mex
leo, Oregon and Washington. All but
two of these factories are controlled by
corporal ons. The total capital interest
ed is $40, 95S, $40. OF which $40, 1879 $50 is in
California, $4,013, 743 in Michigan and S.
S04,996 in all other States. The total val
ue of the product for the year ending
May 81, 1900. was 81 80, S57. of which Cali
fornia furnished So, 1856, Michigan ST.
602, 2G6 and all other States 81. 221,595.
The small value of the products, 81
322 $751;" says the report ''iS due to an
enormous shortage in the crop of sugar
beets for the year ending May 81, 1900. In
all branches CT sugar manufacture the
years of plentiful harvest must carry the
Industry over years of failure and yield
returns that viii make the average
earnings justify the investments.
I "Of the sixteen new factories fifteen
of which were 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-
terioration of beets.
! In addition to the factories operated in
the census year, six including an auxil-
:
tracted, but no sugar manufactured,
were under construction for the crop of
1860. A report of these new factories not
being received, the figures given only ap-
proximate the capital invested in the
new factories as SO, SOC, 900, making the
total of s24 75S, $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 $1,S38, 6S1.
The same factories reported product val
ued at 242s,522 for the census year. The
acreage actually contracted for in 1893
was 1880. Because of shortage Of the
crop in various parts of the country, par
t'cularly In California. beets Were actu-
ally harvested from505, IT'S acres, and the
average yield from this land. eight tons
Of 1000 pounds per acre, was very unsat-
isfactory. The average yield of beets
for Germany for crops of 1869, 1898
and 1889 respectively was fourteen,
fourteen and thirteen tons per acre.
"The acreage seeded for the crop Of
1900 including that for six new factories
having a total nominal daily capacity OF
1900 tors Of beets, was only 12E,40l. where
az approx mately 100000 acres wonld
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: Onlted
States, 163. 45S,075 pounds; California, &c.
,713 pounds: Michigan, 33,70S, 2SS pounds;
all OTTER, 43,OOS.079 pounds.
DR.. Spencer says: I'm 1899, as shown
By the census statistics in this report the
number of factories operated was thirty,
with an output of 1898 short tons of s'i-
gar The total quantity of cane and
beet sugar of domestic manufacture, as
reported in Willett & Gray's circular in
1899, was 22a, 537 short tons, showing that
the production of beet sugar was then
approximately % per cent of the total su-
gar produced in the country from sugar
cane and beets. The American beet SUI
gar factories now have a nominal daily
capacity of 22.310 short tons of beets,
and, when fully supplied with raw ma
terial, should easily manufacture 24Oooo
short tons of sugar per annum."