Arizona republican., 1906-07-22

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 being later used for fertilizer.
 These filter presses are cleaned
 twice day and there is a well equip | ped steam laundry on the same floor
 used entirely for washing the filter
 cloths.
 After Altering the juice runs clear 1 but it is given another cleansing in the 1 second conformation" tanks after which | it is rehltered. After this it goes to
 the evaporating pans where it receives | it's first boiling. There are four of these | evaporators and the juice gets a diff 1 ferent degree of heat in each of them being transferred by pressure from one pan to the next To the uninitiated | these pans, so-called, look like huge | steam tube boilers. In the meantime the juice has been carried to the fifth
 floor where it is sulphured by a me- 1 chanism similar to that of the car bonation tanks. then refiltered through | bag filters on the fourth floor and then droI ped into special boiling pans where | tlle grain is boiled into 1t. These spec | iai boiling pans utilize the only secret l process in the plant. There are two of | these large pans or tanks and they are | the largest tanks in the plant each be- ing about half filled with copper coils.
 The juice being grained, goes from the boiling tanks by gravity into four 1 teen crysgallizers, weighing twelve tons each, when empty. The grain syrup remains in these crystallizing tanks nine hours before it acquires the right consistency. It is then turned into the centrifugals each of which operates on the principle of a cream separator the inner tank revolving rapidly The sugar escapes through the bottom of the centrifugal while the light syrup is forced through it's perforated sides, runs into tanks. is reboiled and re- worked until the final -residuum is of no further use. The second" sugars ob- tained are of the same grade as the ordinary brown sugar of commerce. This is remelted. again treated with sulphur, refiltered and worked into white sugar. There are ten of these centrifugals.
 From the white sugar centrifugals the sugar. which resembles ordinary soft sugar goes to the granulator where it Is granulated and sacked, and then into the warehous.
 This is a brief outline Of the journey the saccharine matter makes from one end of the plant to the other.
 There are large storage tanks all through the building, the floors are of cement, and the main building as well as the boiler room is practically fire proof there being no woodwork except the doors and windows. The main ground floor is filled with pumps heavy engines and an electric lighting plant with two dynamos. There are seventeen miles of pipe in the building exclusive of the boiler room and sev- eral miles of belting.
 In the boiler room there are twelve boilers of 175 horsepower each, con- suming no tons of coal per day. The coal is fed and the ashes removed by an automatic stoker propelled by an engine for that purpose.
 The repair or machine shop adjoin ing is about fifty feet square and is , equipped with all manner of lathes, tools, drilling processes, shapers, pipe cutting machines, etc.
 The Iimekiln at the east end of this building is an immense iron furnace towering high in the air. The lime stone 9S percent pure is brought from Valley station near Prescott. From the floor of the kiln room it is hoisted and dumped automatically into the kiln After burning the carbonic acid gas is taken from the top of the kiln and the lime drops to the floor be- heath. It is then slaked in a sort of a centrifugal machine which makes the milk of lime used in the sugar and which is piped from the kiln to the conformation tank on the second floor of the main building.
 There are two bored wells on the grounds which furnish sixty inches of as good water as anybody could want. Next year there will be ten more wells sunk which 1t is believed will furnish all the water needed. For this year an extra water supply has been secured through an arrangement with the canal company. This included the digging of the reservoir previously referred to which is about 400 feet square, twelve feet deep and will hold approximately 13.00O,000 gallons. to be used in the event the wells fall short.
 Mention should also be made that there Is a laboratory on the second floor of the building for everything must be watched and done scientifieal- ly from the beginning to the end of the process. Expert sugar makers are on hand from the east and are easily se- cured for the reason that the sugar making season there does not begin until fall. There are now about ITO men on the pay roll. When the finishing touches are done soGe of the laborers will probably go and many of the me chanics but their places will be refilled by the sugar making force. When the factory is running full time there will be day and night shifts employing 125 men each. It is expected the factory will start about August 1st and the harvesting of beets will begin this week that a supply may be on hand in time. It is expected this years run
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