The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-19
.SUGARC0MPA NYS
BIG NEW PLANT
Manager MOsiah Evans Discussse
Bear River Undertaking.
WILL ExPEE0 $1,000. 900
LEHI PLANT WILL RESUME oP-
ERATIoNs MONDAY.
fspecial to The Heralal

I Ell. Sept. manager Mosiah
l. Evans Of the Utah Sugar COM
pany's interests in the Bear River
valley. in discussing the future OF the
Utah Sugar company. gave out the fol-
lowing statement yesterday:
The Utah Sugar company is going
10 build l.200-ton factory IN the Bear
River valley about one mile south OF
Garland, which. from opinions OF sugar
experts who have visited this place, Is
an ideal spot for such an undertaking.
This country has plenty OF water for
| irrigating purposes and the beets con-
tain saccharine above the average. all
of which goes 10 show that a factory
there will surely be a success.
Word was received from T. r. Cut
Ter, who is now In the east, that orders
have been placed for the machinery
with +. H. Dyer & CO., OF Cleveland. o.
This company has placed the maehin-
cry in the factories at Lehi, Logan,
Ogden and La Grande. Dire, and Is
| working successfully, judging from the
amount OF sugar turned out each year,
the Lehi factory exceeding 100000
pounds last year.
There will only be enough machinery
l
but the building win be so constructed
that II can be Increased TO i.2o0-tOn
capacity as soon as the acreage of beets
win justify it,
1T is estimated that the factory VIII
! cost S650,0O0, including the cost Of ma
chinery and building"
The company viii also build a power
plant at the mouth OF Bear River can
yOn at a cost of $500 0O0
Mr. Evans stated that the company
viii also build a railroad through the
valley connecting the settlements with
the factory TO haul the beets, as il is
almost impossible TO haul them by team
owing to the s0ftness OF the soil in bad
weather. IT is understood that the
company win expend on the three
propositions over Sl060.000.
The Lehi Plant.
The Lehi plant viii open Monday,
! having placed their 800 hands in posi-
ton today. Since the last run the COM
pany has made some great improve
ments. There is now ia course OF cree
ton new warehouse two stories high.
1853 feet long and forty-four feet wide,
which will store 10000 bags OF sugar.
A new vacuum pan has also been put
in and also six new boilers, making
twenty eight in all. Two new oil sep
arators four feet In diameter and six
feet long. and also a centrifugal pulp
pump which viii shoot the pulp 600
feet through a four-inch pipe from the
batteries 10 the slices. have been in
stalled.
The company has remodeled the beet
sheds. replaced the old wooden floors
with new ones OF cement and taken
out the two gas blowers. replacing same
with a modern duplex air compressor.
rernodeled the railway scales, and the
factory never was in a better condition.
The beets that have been tested are
showing up well in sugar and the indi-
cations are that the factory will surely
I have a successful run this season.
The pumping plant at Springvilie viii
/ commence Monday. while the Provo
and Bingham junction plants viii start
a week later.
I The company expects between $4,000
and $1,000 tons of beets, and viii turn
out upward Of 2O,OO0.00O pounds Of
sugar.
/ The Osmose plant ran about sixty
I days and made about 100000 pounds
/ OF brown sugar this year.