The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-11

LEHI SUGAR FACTORY
One Hundred Thousand Tons Is
Estimated as This Years
Output.

Lehi Sept. 9.-YOur correspondent was
shown through the Utah sugar factory al
/ LEM today by superintendent Gardner
It is now ia first-class condition for what
promises to be the biggest and most sue
cessful campaign in its history Field
superintendent Austin says that the
beets are looking fine and gives 100000
tons as conservative estimate of the
number that viii be delivered at the Iehi
factory this fall. The farmers COM
nenced delivering beetS today and the
management expects TO have enough on
hand tOIstart cutting by the end of the
week. though it may be next Monday
before the pOnderOuS machinery is put
10 motion. The mill has undergone a
thorough overhaulnE since last season S
run and with the whole of the interior
having received new coat Of paint. the
appearance is that Of a new plant. and
indeed. Superintendent Gardner says that
the plant has never been in such an ex
eellent condition before
Among the improvements that have
oeen made during the idle season has
been the installation of a centrifu-
gal pump that viii take the cosettes or
beet pulp as they are drOpDed from the
batteries and pump them through a six
inch pipe 500 feet into the slices. This inn
proVement viii do the work of a half
dozen men and two horses Another la
Dor saving Improvement, and one that
viii dispense with the services OF four
men, is the new sack sewing machine
that has a capacity for sewing 400 sacks
OF sugar per hour and doing its work 100
per cent better than can possibly be done
by hand. An immense StilWell bridge
compressor viii replace the old gas pump
ana II IS expected to save a lot of trOu-
bic. Measuring tanks have been installed
by the centrifugal separating machines
ana from these spraying cans will be
filled so that a certain amount of water
Will be used in cleansing the sugar.
heretofore sleepy man on q long shift
would sometimes wash much Of the sugar
through the separating screen. The lime
kiln has been remOdeled so that the lime
VIII be drawn from the center of the
KILN instead Of from the sides. This will
obviate the accumulation of a cone OF
Dust IN the center Of the kiln and which
has interfered with the draught
outside of the plant the chief improve
ment has been the building Of an i'm
mense beet shed 500 feet long and thirty
teet wide, over which a trestle work has
been erected so that a trainlOad of self
dumping cars may be unlOaded i'm fifteen
minutes that has heretofore taken that
many hours, and that, too. at a greatly
increased cost In connection with this
the company has purchased the right in
ltan and Idaho for making seif-dump-
ing beet rack and has had a half-dOzen
manufactured, and during the trial yes
terday they showed that a wagon of
three and One-half tons of beets could
be unloaded in three minutes and that,
too. without the old back breaking proc
ess.
The furnaces viii all be fired I'D to-
night The men will be given their places
in the mill Wednesday, and Saturday or
Monday the works viii be set in motion.
The cutting stations at Provo, Spring
vile and Bingham Junction will be start
ed simultaneously with the central plant
at Lehi. and soon the arteries of business
IN this county viii feel the stimulus Civ
en- by the distribution of beet money.
There are nearly 2.250O 600 pounds Of
brown or second sugar piled up in the
mill which will be gradually refined as
soon as the mill starts up. About 5000
tons Of lime rock are piled up on the out
side ready for the lime kiln. and all the
coal houses are filled with coal
G. A. Schalenberger special fire in
surance agent. made an official inspec-
ton Of the plant and found that most
thorough and careful preparations had
been made to eXunguish any possible
case of fire. As there is scarcely any
lnflammable material i'm the factory, It IS
not probable that the insurance com
panies will ever be called upon to make
good any losses