Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-24

machinery as he deemed proper for the
manufacture OF beet sugal In Utah.
A large sum Of money was invested In
ms machinery and In its tranapOrta-
ton here. This machinery was depos-
Tied Ia the building referred TO above,
hence The name-Sugar House.
The chief reason why this investment
was not successful was because the
bCets, planted on the lowlands instead
OF on bench lands were 30 strongly
impregnaied with alkall that market
able sugar could not be produced from
them ana the chemical methods and re-
ming processes now uscd were not then
In vogue.
IN 1851 President Joseph Young on
tered into co-partnershlp with sew
eral others for the raising OF sugar
beels and the manufacturing OK beet
sugar and m0asses, He rented or pur-
chased an acre ana quarter city lot
ON which Mayor John Clark afterwards
lived tor many years, now owned by
the oregon Short Line company.
Upon this lot was planted sugar beet
seed br0unght from France, from which
several hundreds Ut bushels Of beets
were produced President Joseph
Young then sucurcd the services of
Brother William Freely, very able
mechanic, and also Brother Burr Frost,
a blacksmith, IN whose shop, ON the
corner OF Third South ana Second
East streets, the first beet sugar fac-
tory was established Freely, the mo-
chanlc, constructed the cylinder for
grinding the beets, aud a power press
worked by long levers FOR pressing the
juice from the beet pulp, he also built
boiler or eyapOratlng trough which
was set over a furnace on the outside
OF the building.
Motive power for grinding the beels
was furnished by one large horse at
tached TO the horse power sweep, also
on the outside. BY This motive power
the beeis were ground into fine pulp
ana made ready for the press. Then
We that is President Joseph Young,
Brothers Freely and Frost. principals,
assisted by three boys, namely. George
Parker Tan orphan boy kept by Brother
Freely, Edwin Frost son ~ the black
smith, and the writer Of this article be-
gan the manufacture Of beet sugar and
beet molasses.
| remember early IN the autumn OF
1852, we began hauling our sugar bects
from The lot above mentioned % the
factory and how we, the boys, cleaned
the beets by scrapiug, and when they
we're thus prepared we conveyed them
IN baskets 10 the cylinder. which was
set In motion by the horse power out.
side and then the beets were ground
INTO a very fine pulp, This pulp was
then shoveled into strong linen bags
and placed on the floor OF the press.
square boards were placed above and
below each sack to make the pressure
equal The windIass was truned by
means Of strong levers and the pres.
sure Of the pulp began.
When all the juice was thus extract.
cd other bags OF ground beet pulp took
thelr places, and 20 the process OF
grinding and pressing was continued mn
enough Juice was produced TO mn the
boiler, when the process Of boiling and
eyaporatlng went on,
AZ certain stages OF the boiling a
small amount would be extracted and
set apart IN open pans or basins to cool,
ana to try II the proper stage for sugar.
ing or graduating had been reached.
on one occasion several hundred gal
lens Of good beet molasses had been
turned out from the factory, and in one
VI these cooling pans was found a de-
poslt OF a quantity OF good beet sugar,
which was exceedingly palatable.
Thus was established In 1852, in salt
Lake city, Utah. by the labors OF those
who worked In the factory. the fact
that beets raised In America, as well
AZ In France, would produce sugar and
to the best OF my knowledge this was
the first beet sugar manufactured In
the United States.