The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-25
MAKING BEET SUGAR
FACTORIES INCREASE FROM SIX TO
sIXTY-FOUR.
Becomes = Big Tndustry-Acreage and
Value Of the Crop Enlarge with
Multiplication of Mills to UtiI-
fze Product.

Louisville Courier Journal.
In 1905 there were six beet sugar rae
tories In operation and one building
having altogether q capacity for slic-
ing 1000 tons of beets daily. In 1895
there were sixty-four factories. with
total capacity of $4,000 tons of beets
daily more than q twelve-fold in
crease.
From 1898 to 1906 our production OF
beet sugar grew from $4,000 tons to
$4,000 tons, an increase of more than
thirteen fold in eight years. In 1896
$1,000 acres of beets were harvested,
in 1906. $4,000 acres, or more than
nine times as great an area, says a
bulletin OF the Department of Agricul-
ture.
THE price of beets, like prices of 9TH
er farm crops has risen steadily. In
1895 the factories paid - 10 a ton; now
they have to pay So. IS. In 1898 the
SCH to the factories, for Which they re-
ceived s1,564.00e In 1906, just eight
years later. they had 4,236,000 tons OF
beets to SELL. and received for them
$21, 604, 600 twelve fold increase in
money returns.
The total amount paid out by fac
tories for beets during the last twelve
years amounts to $4,000. 0oe. The to-
900. and this does not include invest
ments made by factory owners In
farm lands, irrigation works. etc.
ed on the Secretary of Agriculture~to
state how much beet sugar can be pro-
duced in the United states. The Sec
strated conditions of soil and climate
favorable TO beet culture IN an area OF
at least 274,o00.000 acres, and that II
will only take one acre out of every
~ ~ de- a. d.. Ill a
now import from foreign sources. He
estimates "that II the sugar beet were
grown throughout those portions of
the United States adapted by nature
culture. with system of rotation in
GLIDING the cultivation of the beet ev-
cry fourth year, 10000 900 tons of beet
sugar sugar. could be produced In the United
worlds total production of sugar at
the present time"
Beet sugar factories are now in sue
Colorado leads ali other States engaged sssi
in the industry. having sixteen facto-
ries. In 1907 these produced 10000
tons OF sugar. or enough. II it had
pie in the United states four pounds
apiece. California anu Michigan fol-
lowed Colorado at a respectable dis
Michigan has the same number Of fac
considerably smaller. California has
only nine plants. but some of the lat
ter are very large. From year to year
the production OF sugar is about the
same In the two States. Utah has five
factories. and they are strong produce
ers, Idaho and Wisconsin follow with
four each. and there are ten States
with one factory each.
The most eastern factory is that al
Lyons, N. Y. Hamilton City, CAL, has
the most western factory; Los Alami-
tos. the most southern. and Billings,
Mont, the most northern. The larg-
est factory in the United States, and
one of the largest in the world. is the
one at Spreckles, Cal, which is able to
slice 1000 tons OF beets in day or
100 carloads of thirty tons each. The
Oldest successful factory in the United
States Is the one at Alvarado, Cal
which was established in 1879, and has
been making beet sugar for thirty
years.
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