The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-18
Yours faithfully,
WILLIAMS, DIMOND & co.
HAvEMEYER AFTER BETS.

CHICAGO, September 5.-H. o. Have
MEYER and his friends have acquired a
controlling interest in no less than
fourteen plants engaged in the manu-
facture of beet sugar. These plants
have a capacity of 5000 tons of beets
day, as compared with total consump-
ton of %, 1000 tons of beets day in the
entire country. This presents evidence
of the strong foothold in the manufac-
ture of beet sugar that has been OBJ
tanned by the interests of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company.
Eventually it is the intention to COM
bine all of these plants INTO single
company, but there is no immediate
prospect of this, as a number of plants
were acquired with the understanding
there should be no change in their pres
ent management for a period of five
years.
The probability is that Havemeyer's
first idea in entering the beet sugar
field was to be in position to fight the
beet sugar people from their own
stronghold, but it is believed now that
these plants will be operated so as to
relieve the American Sugar Refining
Company of certain territory where the
margin of profit between the cost and
selling price is extremely small.
Another reason for the Havemeyer
interests becoming Identified with the
beet sugar industry is the fear of COM
petition in refined sugars. The Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company depends
| upon Europe for a large part of its
| supply of raw sugar, and there is more
and more a tendency on the part of
producers on the other side to refine
| this sugar for export. There are 5000
companies producing raw sugar in
| Europe, and last year more than sixty
concerns installed refining machinery.
This year $50 companies have made a
| like move.
| SUGAR PLANTERS DISSATISFIED.
KINGSTON (Jamaica), September Z.
AT a meeting yesterday afternoon of
| the representative sugar planters of
Jamaica, resolutions were passed con-
| demning Great Britains neglect of the
| West Indies, resulting almost in ruin
| to the sugar industry, setting forth the
total inadequacy of the measures pro-
posed by Great Britain for the relief
of her West Indian sugar planters, and
calling for federation with Canada as
the only means of relieving the fallen
fortunes of Jamaica.
BEETS INSTEAD OF WHEAT.
TACOMA CWash.), September s.
Several hundred farmers in Eastern
more profitable to raise sugar beets
| than wheat. They are turning an in
creased acreage from wheat raising to
! oI1If, 10,
These conditions prevail generally
about Waverly in Spokane county, and
La Grande, UmatilIa county, where
sugar-beet factories are in operation.
Superintendent Akerly of the La
Grande sugar factory reports that there
are 125 contracting growers in thai
valley this season as compared with
lfifty-eight last year. The average acre.
age titled by the contractors is twenty.
three and the average income per acre
for this seasons crop is estimated al
$3.50. The farmers are Just beginnine
to pull the crop. They claim that beet
raising is three times as profitable as
wheat growing besides requiring less
expensive machinery and apparatus to
handle the crop.
| TO STUDY REFINING.
! Los ANGELES, September 10
August Kruger of Dessau, dukedorn of
Amhalt, Germany, one of the largest
sugar manufacturers of Germany. is in
Los Angeles. Kruger is associated fr
the sugar industry with his father
who is a pioneer manufacturer of sugar
in Germany.
| His visit to the United States is for
| the purpose of learning the methods in
use here for the refining of sugar and