The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
Simmons Sugar co. of kenosha
Secures Patents Which May
Revolutionize Sugar Business
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EXPERIMENTS PROVE VALUE
New Process Provides for the Extrac-
tion of All the Sugar From the
Cane and Use of By-product
for Making Paper

Kenosha promises to give to the
world III the near future a new process
for the handling Of sugar cane which
promises to revoluntionize the manu-
facture of sugar in the world. The
patents of the new process are held by
the Simmons Sugar Company of which
q. G. Simmons is the president AS
yet little has been said in regard to
the proposed new process, but it is
understood that factory is to be
erected in one of the big producing
cane districts this year to test the pro-
cess in a thoroughly practical manner
The process is the invention of George
III. McMullen of Chicago and it repre-
sents labor Of more than twenty-five
years. Several years ago McMullen
came to Kenosha and interested Mr..
Simmons in the proposition and it so
appealed to the Kenosha capitalist that
he organized the Simmons Sugar Com
pany to take over the patents on the
process and since that time he has
taken a great interest in the expert
ments which have been made to prove
the value Of the proposition. 1t has now
been patented throughout the world and
there is no longer any reason for con-
cealing the plan. For years manufact-
urers Of sugar have met an unusual
condition in the fact that the ma
chinery made for the crushing of the
cane and extraction of the sugar has
been inefficient and the business has
been carried on at a comparative loss
on account of the fact that it was i'm
| possible to extract all the sugar from
the cane. The amount of sugar in the
cane is placed at Is per cent, but
under the present process of extraction
the sugar men can get but II of Is pei
cent of the sugar and the fact that the
other seven per cent remains in the
can has rendered the by-product
worthless This by-product is an ex
cellent sort Of fibre and recent dc
velopments have shown that if the
sugar can be removed, from it it is
valuable for the production of paper
Mr.. McMullen recognized these fact:
years ago and opened laboratory il
Chicago to experiment with new pro
cesses. These experiments demanded
the expenditure Of large sums of money
and it was this that caused McMulle1
to come to Mr.. Simmons for help.
The new process seems to be a per
fectly simple one. Instead of putting
the cane through rollers to extract tht
sugar the McMullen process provides
that the cane be shredded and dried
When it becomes dry the sugar cell'
are easily broken up and when The
shredded cane is thrown into water tht
sugar is removed The experiments
have shown that this process removes
all of the sugar and leaves the fibre
without the former objectional charac
ter
In speaking Of the matter Mr.. Sim
mons said: 81 am convinced that The
process has great merit and the expert
ments which we have just completed
seem to justify the belief that it viii
mean much for the sugar industry
The fact that the new process will in
sure the extraction Of the extra PEI
cent of sugar means vast amount il
the increase of the profits of the in
dustry. We are planning to put this
process in practical application at the
harvesting of this years crop Of cane.
A number of Kenosha man are inter
ested in the Simmons Sugar company
but Mr.. McMullen and Mr.. Simmons
are the leading men in the proposed
new industry.