The Springfield herald., 1902-11-07
rWO NEW FACTORIES
WILL INCREASE SUGAR OUTPUT.
TWO Beet Sugar Plants to Be In
stalled in Colorado During the Com
ing Year to Cost 100000 Each and
With Capacity of Six Hundred
Tons Per Day Each.


Denver, Colo, Nov. 1.-Two new
beet sugar factories, with a capacity
of GOO tons or more a day, Will be
built in Colorado in time Tor the sea-
son of 1903. The exact locations of the
factories have not been announced.
but will be made public within week.
II. r. Bane, president OF the Nation
al Construction Company OF Detroit
Michigan. who is at the Brown Palace
hotel. last night announced in part the
plans of his company.
The National Construction Com
pany," said Mr.. Bane, lis an amalgam-
alton of the most expert engineers and
machinery builders in the business. In
the last year there have been contracts
tor six beet sugar plants let in Michi-
gan, and of these our company got
three. We have built plants in all
parts of the United States and have
sent machinery even abroad.
We have had experts in the Colo
RADIO field and have found that condi-
tiOns here are most favorable. am
not ready to state now the location OF
the two factories we will build, but
viii say that we ourselves expect to
furnish 100000 of the capital neces-
sary to build them They will cost
each will have a capacity of about 900
tons daily, with arrangements made
for their enlargement if that is found
desirable. Some factories here would
have much larger output than in
Michigan. We are counting on getting
300 pounds of sugar from each ton of
beets. The largest production from
ton of beets in Michigan is $50 pounds
of sugar. The beets in Colorado are so
much sweeter, the yield to an acre is
so much greater. and the season so
much longer than elsewhere because
the climate favors keeping the roots,
that a 600-ton factory here would have
a larger output than 1,OO0-ton fac
tory in Michigan.
I'VE have thought over, and talked
over. and slept over this talk of danger
from Cuba to the sugar beet industry,
and we are here to put our money in.
Have you ever thought that wherever
civilization has gone it has blasted the
cane sugar industry. There is more
sugar in beets every year but chemis-
try and improved agriculture have
never been able to increase the amount
of sugar to be obtained from a given
amount of cane. 1t is simply matter
of the temperate zone against the civ
ilization of the torrid zone-and the
temperate zone will win every time.
Il do not believe that the Republic
can party will ever make any reduc-
tions in the tariff on sugar. 1t can't
afford to do so. The chain of beet su-
gar factories extends from New York
to San Francisco. and the party can
not afford to wreck the industry. If
Cuba is admitted to the Union. why
the same freedom of exchange will op-
crate to destroy the inequalities of la
Dor and Cuba could not injure the beet
sugar industry for long time, if at
ALL"
Mr.. Bane will remain in Denver
about a week. On his card, which is
that of the construction company, ap-
pears the name of Alfred Nlusy. who
was in Denver about two weeks ago,
apparently on mission along the line
of the Union Pacific railway for the
railway company. Mr.. Musy is the
chief expert for Mr.. Bane's company,
and it is probable that Mr., Bane's trip
to the West is consequent upon the
visit of Mr. Musy.