The Iola register., 1902-01-17

boots from the stalk. The blades will
be ground up into cattle food.
The stalks are subjected to heat as
they pass through 120-foot furnace,
causing the pectine substance to evap-
crate from the joints. This pectine
has retarded crystallization and made
sugar making from the syrup more
difficult by this process the use of
alcohol and other expensive chemicals
to remove it is done away with. The
! heat also causes the pith or core to
shrink and thus separate from the hull
or rind.
The pith is used in making smoke
less powder. The new plant will pack
it into cakes and sell it to an eastern
powder works, getting patent machin-
cry from the works for working the
stalks free for this. 1t is also used
for making imitation silk and sfor
| packing for war vessels.
The outer rind of the stalk will be
made into pulp and manufactured
into paper, white and strong, and
superior to soda or sulphide wood
paper. From the fibre in the pth a
fine bond paper of the best grade can
be made.
The seed from the tops Is used in
making starch and making buckwheat
flour.
The pectine substance removed from
| the joints is used in making carbolic
acid.
The juice squeezed from the stalk is
refined into an excellent syrup and
further refined into graaulated sugar.
All of these things have been pro-
duced from the ordinary stalk of cane.
Mr.. Dennison hopes to make sugar
his chief aim. The market is ripe for
the American producer who can make
and sell sugar in competition with
Cuba and other islands whence the
American supply largely comes. He
thinks he can do this and declares his
faith that he has the beet sugar indus
try bested.
At a second large factory he expects
to make paper. This also finds ready
market and the time is coming when
wood pulp paper must go up in price
because of the gradual exhausting of
the forests.
The syrup plant would run only a
portion of the year, but as soon as a
sufficient amount of pulp is on hand
he would expect to run the paper mill
continuously, Seventy-fve men would
be employed for four months in the
syrup works and fifty men continuously
in the paper mill.
He would want immense amounts of
cane. Paying good price per ton
for crop that the government has ex-
perimented with and succeeded in rails
ing forty tors to the acre-Mr. Denni- |
son thinks 20 tons ought to be raised
TO the acre here, in a short season, |
with free seed and making the surest
crop in this section. He would further
like to see the State bounty on beet |
raising extended to cane and so ar
ranged that it would go to the cane
raiser not to the sugar man. He re-
cognizes that cane sugar works have
failed. In his plan he declares he
could throw away his syrup juice and
make money from the other products.
If he is right, here is plant that
would grow and make lola a bigger,
better town. IT. would create market
for sure, profitable, short-seasoned
crop for farmers.
He wants a forty.acre tract, near
plenty of water, and gas well. The
question to be answered, and the only
one is: Do the business men and
property owners of lola and the farm
ers of the county want to put up the
bonus price needed? Mr.. Dennison
refers to prominent and ,well known
Chicago financiers to back up his
proposal. If they believe in him $75.-
900 worth to start on, does lola be-
lieve in him to the extent necessary?
1t is fascinating prospect.
The motormen and conductors on