Arizona republican., 1906-07-22
GLENDALE'S
 BIG INDUSTRY
Description of the Com
 pIeted Sugar Factory
An Outline of the Process of Turning Sugar Beets Into Big Bank Accounts

Now that the beet sugar factory at Glendale is practically finished it is possible for a visitor to appreciate by visit to the plant, something of it's magnitude and what it means to this valley. Furthermore when explained by one in authority it is possible to understand something of the useful ness of the hundreds of tons of ma chinery that is systematically placed within thee immense structures that comprise the plant. A representative of The Republican, through the cour- tesy of Paul Kruger visited the factory a day or two ago, and through the fur ther courtesy of Lafayette Myers, the general manager of the company, he was given a tour Of the works accom- panied by an explanation of the process of sugar making, from the time the beets enter the big bins at the east end of the plant until the sacked prod uct is piled away in the warehouse at the west end.
 No time will be spent in describing the main building. with which nearly everyone in the valley is now familiar except to say that it is an immense brick structure with a steel frame. The greater part of 1t is three stories high and the rest of it five stories high for the accommodation of two features of the process of sugar making Some distance to the east of the main build ing is the beet shed 80 feet wide by 300 feet long. A railroad track runs on either side Of the shed for convenience in unloading beets from the cars into the bins. Through the center of it runs a roadway, elevated above the bins which are on either side that beets may be unloaded most expedi- tiously from wagons.
 At the west end of the main build ing is a brick warehouse 67x267 feet in size. for the storage of sugar. North of the main building and just about the same length though not quite so wide. the railroad running between. is a large brick structure housing three departments of the plant. At the west end is the boiler room, next to it the machine shop and at the east end the lime kiln for the burning of lime and the making of carbonic acid gas. These three departments will be mentioned in detail. later. Above the boiler room towers an immense smoke stack 165 feet high from which the factory smoke may be seen for miles.
 South of the factory and nearby is an office building. also built of brick. that will be ready for occupancy by Monday next. A little to the west is Hoghe's Hamburger plant where the wOrkmen fuel up" three times a day. South of that Is the brick yard and a few hundred feet to the southeast Of the factory is the emergency reservoir to be mentioned later. A few small buildings and shops, a couple of wells
 
 outside description of the plant, which cost approximately three quarters Of a million. dollars and has a capacity for working eight hundred tons of beets every twenty -four hours. The time re- quired to make sugar is eighteen hours. That Is 1t is eighteen hours from the time a beet leaves the bin until its sugar is in the sack. though the pro- cess of course is continuous, beets en- tering and sugar coming out constantly as in the manufacture of flour from wheat. When the factory is running regularly its operation will require the consumption of 100000 gallons of water per day.
 The reader is now ready to follow, on paper, the process of making sugar Through the center of each of the beet bins runs a little stream of water III a CdIldl dDOuN tlSllLEcLi lAANIACS " iNAC and a few inches deep. The beets are pushed into this channel and carried by the water into the factory on the ground floor, the end of this channel running against a wheel twenty feet in diameter around the circumference of which are conveyors that are filled with beets as they pass the end of the channel. This wheel elevates the beets to the washer. From the washer a huge conveyor takes the beets to the top of the third story, whence they drop down through two immense drums inside of which they are sliced Both these drums, merge at the bottom and the sliced beets are run into a con- veyor belt that carries them into diff fusion battery of fourteen cells, each cell weighing about two and half tons. In these cells the juice is eX- tracted by the circulation of hot water, a sort of a teaching process. The pulp then drops to the bottom of the build ing and is carried out by conVeyors and later used for stock feed. It will be observed that this pulp is secured before any lime or other substance that might be considered unhealthful for stock, has been employed, the pulp be- ing white and as clean as anything an animal ever ate.
 The juice is next raised to the meas uring tanks on the second floor, pass ing from there to the conformation tanks where it Is mixed with lime and car bonic acid gas. This lime or milk of lime as it is called is slaked lime hav- ing the appearance of milk. The pur- pose of the lime and gas is to precip- itate the impurities in the juice which is then forced by a powerful pump to the third floor again where it passes through hydraulic filters. Here the precipitated impurities are removed by pressing the juice through cloths in the filters. There are nine of these filter presses weighing six tons each and each is built somewhat in a worm fashion the juice passing up and down through them.
 The precipitates removed from the