Arizona republican., 1909-12-21
MAPLE SUGAR MADE
 IN ARIZONA TOWNS
New and Novel Industries For South
 western Cities

Phoenix is to have a new industry at once, a maple sugar and maple syrup factory. w P Arnold viii be the sole owner and manager, incor- l.crating that business with the pickle factory business ne is now conduct ing quite successfully. But if the maple sugar enterprise develops as the conditions indicate it may, the sweet end of the business nay absorb the sour ,l;': of il b.fOre long.
 MT Arnold. though the proprietor is hardly the projector of the busi- ness. which honor belongs to the Western Maple Syrup company of Los Angeles, through its representa- tive. c J. Lewis. who has been here a few days and has interested MT Arnold m the business. He did not do it out of pure philanthropy, of course The interest he has in the thing is to supply Mir. Arnold with the raw materials for making his products The Western company has been in existence only fourteen months and has established about forty such factories on the coast Leaving here Mir Lewis expects to establish an other in Tucson. His purpose is to supply raw materials in each popu- lous center and instruct the local man ufacturers who are exclusive agents of the company, in the use of the formulas they employ, then sell them the raw materials and the line Of extracts they manufacture. for his own use The contracts are exclusive between the local manufacturer and a. tected. And the supply house offers inducements in the raw materials that it believes no one else can offer. so the arrangement is more than mutual
 The suggestion of maple sugar factory in Phoenix seems like joke at first. but MT. Lewis says 1t is only straight business There IS no such thing in the retail market as the boiled down concentrated maple sugar. The maple sugar of commerce, even if pure. has to be remelted or sub rnitted to some process of boiling wherein water is added and the right consistency secured for the proper flavor and the proper degree of cryS- utilization. Then, too, but q small mart If the maple products sold ar" pure or pretended to be unadulterated. Most of them are mixed with grant, lated sugar and various drips, syrups. etc produced In Phoenix the gran ,,tated sugar is on the ground ana can be bought here cheaper than It can be bought in Los Angeles, to say nothing of the saving in freight hundred pounds of pure concentrated manle shipped here from Vermont will make much more than that when sub- rnitted to the process Of making II ,,ar,etable. even when placed on The market unadulterated and when i, is used with other sweets 1t VIII give a maple favor to many times its weight There would be freight charge on the maple. for only loo hounds. and no freight charge Tor the granulated, to speak or.
 The Western company is the agent of the Carey Maple Sugar company oi St. Johnsbury, Vt. and in like man nor has a contract for it's entire out nut for term of years rms will supply at the cheapest possiDie nrice to all its associated factorles- The local house will be able to supply nure maple sugar and maple syrup rnaple and cane syrup and maple favored syrup and all goods Will carry inc pure food law serial numbers or the Western company. showing that tbey are just what they are represent od to he If one wants pure maple be can get it. but most people could hardly tell the difference between II and some of the blends except by the