The Teton peak-chronicle., 1904-11-24
View Sugar Factory
hundreds Accept Invitation to Go
Through the Works.
immensely OF the Plant Impressed All Visitors
7OO Tons Of Beets Run Through Each Day,
Producing 1900 Bags Of Sugar.

Probably more than a thousand
people accepted the sugar compa-
ny's invitation to go through the
factory Saturday and witness the
processes by which the crude and
uncomely beet is converted into
refined sugar. All present were
impressed with the imfnensitv of
the plant and were curiouslv in
terested. The visitors for the time
were virtual owners of the plant
wandering at will where inclina-
tion led. They looked and looked
asked questions enough to make a
library of books, and in the end
understood little more about the
process than when they began. The
plant was running from the product
OF the slicer at Parker, which is
delivered through pipe line to the
factory, where it passes from one
set of tanks to another, until it
reaches a large tank where the
syrup is cooked until it crystalizes,
Here the visitor can see and under
stand the process. From this huge
cauldron the product, which looks
like a cross between brown sugar
and syrup, is delivered to a set Of
rapidly revolving tanks, where the
syrup is extracted by the force of
the revolution, leaving the product
a creamy color. Blue water is
poured into these tanks which
wllitens and purihes the sugar.
From here it passes into a large
revolving tank when it is dried,
and is delivered through elevators
to the sacking room, where it is
ready for shipment. This, i'll brief,
is how sugar is made, but it is i'm
possible to describe the process so
that it will be understood.
OF the twenty-nine beet sugar
factories i'll the United States, the
engineer, who by the way, con-
structed all of them, says this is
the most modern and perfect. The
machinery was SO perfect, and SO
accurately erected, that it started
up without the slightest hitch of
any kind, and has been running
steadily ever since, and is now
turning out sugar at the rate of
about 1900 bags per day. The
capacity of the plant is supposed
to be only 500 tons, but as high as
720 have been put through in
twenty-four hours, and about 100
tons is the average run.
This season about $4,000 tons OF
-beets will'be put through, a portion
of the beet crop having been ship
ped to Idaho Falls early III the sea
son. About one fourth of the crop
was grown on the eompany's farm,
the Weld from some OF which reach
ed twenty-five tons per acre. Con
tracts have been signed SO that next
wears Output should be double
this. Two years hence it is expect
ed an acreage will be grown which
will keep the factory running until
March or April, and possibly
require the erection of another aux
iliary lower down, on the bench.
The factory has paid out about
$3.50, 900 for wages and hauling,
and on Tuesday Of last wee',, dis
tributed $125, 900 among beet
growers, which gives an idea OF
|. the vast amount of money such an
/ institution distributes through the
country, and of what it will reach
when the increased capacity is at
tanned.
The bounty Of half a cent per
pound on this year's output will
reach a neat sum, but the establish
ment of the industry in the state IS
we'll worth it.
\ On Friday evening the 18th inst.
a number of young folks gathered
at the residence of Mr. Gesas, IL
honor the Miss Lillian, whose
birthday they proposed to celebrate.
There we've about fifteen present
and the evening was most pleas
autlv spent in singing, dancing