Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1912-05-01


oeet sugar production in the Unit
ed States are maintained, UneI
Sam will supply the entire amour
OF sugar required in this country
Already the beet sugar output con
stitutes about onc-half the eptir,
sugar production OF the country ant
moreover this branch of the suga,
industry promises to have the great.
est development provided the gov
eminent continues to encourage i,
as IT has in the past.
These startling statements wer,
the conclusions OF an investigation
OF the importance OF beet sugar
growing in the central states and
throughout the United States which
disclosed the fact not previously
known that Chicago not only is the
country's great corn and livestock
market but the center OF beet sugar
distribution.
Perhaps in no other industry has
there been such market accelcration
as IN the production of dome site
sugar, beginning with the year 1903
and the large stake OF the central
states in the present movement To
eliminate beet sugar by removal of
the tariff on imported sugar is shown
by the fact tina, sugar made from
beets in this country has far out
stripped all competitors in per cent
OF increase. This is true in spite of
the fact that the territorial expan-
sion OF the United States has an
nexed important sub-tropical sugar
areas within the period named.
Since the annexation OF Hawaii in
1898 when the island produced 2O4.-
SJJ tons OF sugar the importation in
1911 of 1921 tons shows an in
crease OF slightly less than 225 per
cent Porto Rico. acquired as n re-
suit OF the war with Spain has in
creased its production from 5000
tons in 1902 to 2S0,622 in 1911. or
slightly over 800 per cent. The
Philippines despite a concession OF
Is per cent from the duty on foreign
sugar, the right to send To the Unit
ed States 100000 tons duty free. and
the return to the Philippine Treas
ury OF all duty collected by our
Customs house, sent us only l6S,-
4O8 tons in 1911. On the other
hand domestic beet sugar since
1893 has advanced from produc-
ton OF 44,862 tons to 506,825 tons
for 1911, or over 1900 per cent
The growth of this country may
be shown even more strikingly by
going back few years further, Ia
1892. when six factories utilizing
beets from 7,lSs acres produced S.
3SS tons Of sugar as against the
production for 1911 OF scoops tons
turned out in o. factories from beets
grown in 42o,0l4 acres. in sixteen
states, representing a territory
bounded by line drawn from the
Straits OF Mackinaw through Min
neapoIis and Billings. Mont, to the
Pacific. The eastern border Of
Michigan and central Ohio form the
eastern boundary, and to the south
the Ohio river, Kansas. Arizona
and Southern California. This is
merely the territory in which the
sugar beet industry is already es-
tablished Experimental work in
dieaies that some Of the most ad-
vantageous territory is 10 be found
in the Shenandoah Valley OF Vir-
ginia and in New England. though
II, has not yet been tried out The
capital investment has grown from
a few hundred thousand dollars in
1911 To over hundred million at
present and the scientists Of the
Department Of Agriculture express
the opinion that the development Of
the industry Is scarcely more than
begun
A recently published report Of the
great German tatistician y o
LIGHT, shows that the average acre.
age planted in Germany 10 sugar
beets during the past three years is
10000 acres. OF 1880 Of the
amount of sugar beet land possessed
by the United States. This il an
actual planted area equal 10 only
few ordinary American counties. ye,
from this acreage Germany produces
annually two-thirds as much sugar
as total yearly consumption Of the
United States which for 1911 was
1881 .3ol long tons II Is rather a
curious fact that with the rapid
growth Of the domestic produetion