The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-12-26


instinct to make the best use of what
nature has provided for the good of
the human family, and, second, the
large consumption and short pro-
duction of sugar by the United
States. In 1905 6 the estimated
worlds production [ I sugar was H.
1910 long tons, of which 4,90S,-
600 tons were cane and 100000
tons beet.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States, 1904 (estimated), was
2,767,068 tons we're imported and
520,9 domestic. OF the domestic
supply 1870 tons were manufactur-
ed from imported molasses; 1923, $40
native cane; 10000 native beet, and
1900 native maple. Here is. a pro-
duction in the entire country Of 550,-
100000 tons in round numbers
against q consumption of 2,750,000
tons, and that is why the sugar beet
is so actively engaged in business in
the Arkansas valley Of Kansas and
Colorado and elsewhere in the West
where valley lands are accessible to
water.
In the Arkansas valley of Colora-
do aud Kansas there are six sugar
mills, as follows: The American
Beet Sugar Company. (2) Rocky
Ford and Lamar, Colo; The Holly
Sugar Company (2), Holly and
Swink, Colo; the National Sugar
Company, Sugar City, Colo, and the
United States Sugar and Land Com
pany, Garden City, Kas. The Rocky
Ford mill has capacity of 1000 tons
Of beets day, twenty-four hours;
the Lamar mill, 800 tons; the Holly
mill, 900 tons; the Swink mill, 1900
tons; the Sugar City mill, 500 tons,
and the Garden City mill, 800 tons.
The Swink and Garden City mills
were not operated last year.
Next year at least two more mills
will be built and ready for the cam
psign of 1907-OS; one at Las Ami
mas, Colo, by the American Beet
Sugar Company, and one at Deer
field, Kas., by the United States
Sugar and Land Company. The
four mills in operation last year
made 50,600,000 pounds Of sugar, or
22, $50 long tons, employing in. the
four months Of the campaign, 2,l76
men. Besides the four mills of the
Arkansas valley, eight other, mills
were operated in Colorado last year,
producing 136,OOO,0OO pounds of
sugar, or 60,7I tons.
The lands of the sugar companies
are even more valuable than the
mills, and the companies, while some
of them sell improved tracts to beet
growers, are buying additional raw
land all the time. They also own
valuable water rights and irrigation
canals, which are expensive to main
tain. For water is gold. Without
water, land in the arid region Is of
no value, and all agricultural indus
tries would languish. So, to conduct
the sugar industries the companies
constantly must invest in new canal
and ditch improvement and mainten-
ance, which item is charged to the
cost of sugar product ion.
Sometimes the fear is expressed
by uniformed persons of an over
production of sugar in the United
States, but in ten years consumption
has increased from 1872, 400 tons
to 2,372,316 tons; an average of 3
per cent each year. If this rate has
continued since 1901, the amount of
sugar used this year should be more
than 100000 tons-sn increase
since 1901 of about 100000 tons.
But the increase of the production
of beet sugar in the United States,
with all its phenomenal growth from
1901 to 1905, was only 1SS,O70 tons.
If this years production should
reach the estimate of 100000 tons,
it would be total increase of about
274, 900 TONS. Whereas, the increase
of consumption of sugar has probab-
ly been more than twice that amount.
1t is evident, therefore, that there is
no danger of beet sugar factories be-
ing built SO fast as to overstock the
market.
The sugar beet causes intense
farming aud thereby land increases