The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-20
PRODUCTION OF
SUGAR IN UTAH
Report Of Agent SayIOr to Score
tary Wilson.
GREAT INDUSTRY GROWING
INVESTIGATIONS MADE LAST
SEASON.
Cspeeial t. The Heraldl

/ Washington. Sept. 1S.-In his annual
report 70 the secretary of agriculture.
Charles F. Saylor, special agent in
charge of beet sugar Investigations.
makes brief reference to the condition
of this important and growing industry
in the state of Utah. His report bears
on Investigations made last season, and
is. in part. as follows:
Utah was The third state to enter the
field as a producer of beet sugar. the
first factory being built at Lehi City
in 1891 In the state we find the in
! PRODUCTION of this industry influenced
by strong circumstantial causes. The
farms in Utah are small. usually
ranging from ten TO forty acres The
farmers of Utah had gone further in
the development and use of irrigation
than in other parts Of the UnitedStates.
These small farms had been made as
productive as possible. and afforded en-
plOyment for a maximum amount of
labor Such. conditions are ideal for
( sugar production II is never advis-
able in starting the growing Of sugar
beets for factory to encourage the
farmers to put in more than five to ten
acres each; and. in fact, with most
farmers who have acquired experience,
1t is never advisable to encourage a
much larger planting than ten to
twenty acres. Some farmers are ca
pable of handling a much larger field
than this, but as a rule il is not ad-
visable There is no general field crop
that requires so much outlay for labor
as sugar beets, but there is probably
no other crop that viii meet the eX-
pense and return a good profit in addi-
ton 50. readily cheap.
THE people of Utah have been ac-
customed to supplying their own needs
as nearly as possible by their own eff
forts: sugar was an item Of Importance
in their daily wants. The production of
sugar beets and the manufacture of
sugar fitted so nicely into their system
of farming and industrial life that it
came as matter of course as soon as
the industry began to attract attention
in the United States. That the wis
dom of introducing il into Utah has
been fully demonstrated is shown by.
the fact that this first factory has been
able to produce it more cheaply than
any other factory in the United States.
The results of this factory gave sugar
manufacturing an impetus in Utah.
and now they have. counting three
rasping stations connected with the
Lehi City plant. seven factories. with
a combined daily capacity Of 1850 tor
Of beetS and pTaCuCdl estimate Of an
nual output of sugar of %, 547 tons. The
present annuel consumption Of Utah is
9,464.8 tons Of sugar. Her production
surpassed her consumption some time
ago. and now the state is shipping over
10000 tons Of sugar to Missouri river
points and other markets.
There are quite a number Of projects
under consideration in Utah. having in
view the utilization of large tracts of
land in fertile valleys, where additional
water for irrigatiOus purposes can be
had. These lands are. well located for
utilizing wateropower. securing ship
ping facilities and developings feeding
and dairying, Utah is sure to continue,
as it has started. one of the leading
ugar-producing. states in the Union
Mr.. Saylor says he was advised that
capital and acreage have been secured
for building a 1.0C0-tOn sugar factory
at GunnisOn, Utah, for the cOmpaign
Of 1903. This place, by the way, has
70 been quite thoroughly tested in grow
ing sugar beets for several years for the
factory at Lehi City.
At the time of his visit to Utah the
Utah Sugar company was constructing
in Bear river valley a factory Of 200
tons daily capacity for this years cam
paign.