The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-25
INTAKE Ii NE.
Preliminary Work on Sugar
Factory Is Well Under Way
Great Western Company's Officials Are Now Confident
That Big Mill Will BE in Operation in Plenty
Of Time for 1917 Crop

II there is one place " Mssoula
where real activity is to be found that
location is a short distance west by
north from the city, where the Great
Western Sugar company is engaged
in erecting it's plant, which, when com
pleted. will represent an investment
Of well over a million dollars. There
have been people who cast doubt on
the ability of the Dyer Construction
company to have the big factory
In running order by the first of Sep
TENDER, but these people have I'M
doubtedly made their observation from
Il grocery store cracker box or from
corner. No one can visit the site of the
plant and witness the rapidity with
which the $50 men employed there are
getting buildings under way and doubt
but that IN good season for the 1917
crop of sugar beets the factory will
stand completed and ready to com
mence operation the minute the first
consignment of bects is hauled into
the spacious yards.
The Buildings.
The steel frames for the sugar ware
house and the seed warehouse are
erected and the foundation base for
the main factory building has been
completed and as the steel for this
building has all been shipped and
much of 1t is on the ground, II il only
question of a few weeks until the
framework is up and active work is
started on the building which is to
house the larger part of the sugar
making machinery.
The oI.ice building and the time
Keepers office were the first build
ings to be completed and arc practi-
cally ready for occupancy as soon as
the furniture has been installed.
Missoula's Bio Stack.
Tho foundation for a huge concrete
smok"staCk has been placed. The
base Is underground with Il dimension
VI ~ i'tl s'l'iilt' b''NsliiiAR 10 Il surface
dimension of 30 feet The smokcstack
viii be 265 feet high. Tho plant will
be operated by electricity and steam.
about even proportions of each. To
furnish the steam eight large boilers
will be used.
The large batteries for reducing the
sugar bcots to pulp are nearly ready
to bc installed
The engine that will run the ma
chinery of the plant is at hand and
the concrete foundation for its base
Is under way. 1t will be placed in the
position selected for it soon, The en-
ginc has two immense fly wheels, each
about 16 feet in diameter
Four railroad spurs will be con
structed soon. These will be for the
unloading of sugar beots at the fac
tory building
Brick to be used in the plant will
begin to arrive at the site this month
An order has been placed for 1000. 900
of them. The first lot will come from
the Missoula Brick ana Tile company.
The factory Is situated on a tract
of 154 acres, the greater portion Of
which was purchased from the Green
ough estate. The seed warehouse is
to be a building 70x70 feet The
sugar warehouse will be 75x215 feet.
The main factory building Is to be
constructed of steel, brick and glass
and will be thoroughly fireproof The
dimensions Of this building will be
260x20O feet.
A Beauty Spot.
The beet sugar factory will have
none of that grimness and unattract-
iveness of the average factory. In
stead of an ugly, repelling appear
ance the grounds and buildings will
seem more as If they belonged to an
institution devoted to some other less
commercial purpose than the produce
| ton of sugar. The factory grounds
'are to be entirely enclosed with a