Arizona republican., 1909-06-21
SUGAR LAY
 EXCURSION Public Will Be Invited to h. spect Glendale Factory DATE NOT DECIDED UPON
It Will Probably Be June 29. General Description of the Process of Sugar Making. Plant Is Operating Perfect ly.

There is probably not a resident
 of this valley who does not appre- ciate in some measure the value of
 of the Glendale sugar factory to the
 commercial prosperity of this section.
 Nevertheless. it may safely be stat
 ed that not a resident of the valley
 can fully and adequately appreciate | it's value until after he has paid a
 visit to the factory, and then only
 when he pauses to reflect on what
 he sees. There is most in evidence the immensity of the machinery and | the number of men employed, both
 of which cost money and lots of it.
 Then there is the thought of the 1 immense acreage devoted to growing
 sugar beets, crop that requires quite intensive farming and giving employ | ment a large part of the year to
 great many more men than a similar | acreage of most farm crops to which l such areas are planted. All these men
 and their families add that much to the commercial life of the commun- ity, the patronage of merchandising establishments, banks, professional
 men, and every line of industry. Then there is the fact that all this is not
 only an added industry to many the
 valley already has but the money it
 turns loose is all new money, or
 money from d new source, and it is
 distributed at a time of the year
 when most commercial lines are at their lowest ebb. While everybody
 knows these things in a general way.
 few fully realize the magnitude of
 the project until they visit the fac
 tory and see the wheels go round.
 The Southwestern Sugar and Land
 company knows this; knows that the
 people want to see the operation of
 the factory, and the management wants them to see it. Visitors can
 acquire q better idea that way in
 one hour than in reading about itI for a week. For that reason the management is arranging for a sugar" day. when the whole world
 will be invited to come and inspect the paint and when guides will be furnished to show the visitors over it methodically, answer questions, eX- plain processes, etc. A great many people have already been there. some  accord, and they have always been made welcome, but if a large number of visitors come at once. unless they are looked for and met by someone.
 they have to stroll around alone without getting the information they desire and with no one in particular to ask questions of, possibly getting in the way of the busy wOrkmen. It has been decided therefore, to give a sugar day and have plenty of people on hand to guide visitors. Excursions will be run from all over the valley and the people will not only be invited but urged to come l It is a project in which the people l are interested as well as the factory management and the latter feels that publicity is better for it's business than secrecy, now that everything is running smoothly. The date of sugar day has not been definitely settled, though it will probably be June 29, week from tomorrow, and full announcement will be made in 1 time
 The writer was privilege to visit 1 the factory few days ago on the | invitation of MT. Davie and through l the kindness of H. I. Latham. who 1 thinks his Detroit Chalmers automo- bile is good enough for anybody to ride in, and has good reason for thinking so. Mir. DaVie took the party through the big factory and explained every process of sugar making as fully as the layman could understand. The big plant itself is a sight even if one were not interested in the results expected from it. and can only be described in a general way for it would take a book to tell all the details. It will be taken for granted that the reader is familiar with the immense structure five stories high and the other building across the tracks, itself as big as a large flour mill in which are housed the twelve 200 horsepower boilers as fine a machine shop as one can find anywhere, the big lime kiln, carpenter shop. etc. Just beyond this structure and across another railroad track is an immense crude oil tank cemented and containing ten feet of oil, the tank being as big as a circus tent, though mostly underground, and cost ing several thousand dollars to con- struct. South of the factory, or on the opposite side from these minor buildings is the office, bunk houses. water tanks and numerous smaller constructions, as well as an immense open reservoir, held for storage of ditch water in the event of an emergency, but which there are no indications will ever be needed. There is also a large open reservoir alongside it in