The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-23
No YOU KNOW HOW
TO MAKE CANDY?
We're You Ever in a Factory
Where They Make
Sweets?
fHIS WILL TELL YOU
HOW TO DIP CHOCOLATES
This Will Tell You All About It,
AlsO About Big Candy
Factory.

You can go from an arctic tempera.
ure in Salt Lake TO a more than tropi-
al tempera ture by taking twenty steps.
You do not believe it7 Ever in a
candy factory7 Ever see how choco-
stes are dipped7 Ever see how gum
drops are made? In the first instance
temperature of sixty degrees is neccs
AIRY; in the second, a temperature of
$50 degrees, The writer experienced
both Saturday.
And, speaking OF chocolates and gum
drops and candy. the American peo-
pie drink six billion cups of cocoa or
and millions of pounds of candy. 20
pounds of sugar is the amount every
person IN the United States uses an
nually and the quantity of chocolate
used for coating candy is enormous.
And of popcorn, one institution IN
salt Lake turns out ten barrels of
popped corn every day. The raw ma
lud trainloads. And this applies also
10 chocolate, trainloads of it. all of
which goes into the manufacture OF
candy.
Salt Lake has sweet tooth. So
have the people who reside in territory
contiguous TO Zion and they want the
best there is IN candies. Not only do
they want ii, demand it, but they get
il.
Making of Stick Candy,
Everybody knows how stick candy is
made; that they discovered long long
ago, when they were at the taffy pull
ines with their steady, and the one kind
Of gathering where one could and did
always have good time. This work
is now done by candy pulling machine
which is capable of handling 300pound
batches every 10 minutes. The steady
is gone But every one docs not know
how fancy candies are made, Of the
work required, of the number Of people
employed. Of the capital invested, and
this in Salt Lake alone.
As an instance, take the Sweet Candy
company whose place of business Is
IN the Hooper block on First South
street The company has capital of
$4,000 invested; employs 200 people
in their factory; paid last year, IN
wages to employees $4,000; employs
eleven travelling men who cover terri
tory extending from British Columbia
to Arizona and from Denver to the
coast; which has a plant turning out
$4,000 pounds Of candy per day; which
makes 800 varieties or kinds of candy;
that during the year 1906 used over
million ana hdIt pounuS OF sugar ana
10000 pounds of chocolate; that uses
five floors Of a great building. This Will
give an idea Of what the candy indus
irv of Zion is
You remember those old fashioned
iaw-breakers you used 10 like when YOU
were a KID Great stuff, it was. Sweet
taste lasted so long in your mouth.
Tickled the palate even when you sat
in your seat in school end made spit
ball TO throw AT the freckle- faced
girl who you did not like and who sat
Just across the aisle from you. Well,
they still make that kind of candy,
hut the kids of today have abandoned
the spit ball. they throw chocolates
now. cheap ones, at the freckle faced
girl-ha nd d.dipped-to their steady.
Speaking Of chocolates. machines dip
the cheap grades Sweet has a ma
chine. ii cost $1,000 Girls with deft
hands place the sweets on the movable