El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-02

year to give ten pounds TO every man.
woman and child in the United States
and leave some to spare.
The factory belongs to the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, and il
is one of five operated by that insti-
! tuition The others are located at
Brooklyn. Jersey City. Boston and
Philadelphia. They have altogether
an output of something like S0,VvO
carloads OF sugar and strip per an
mum. and. placed end to end. their
product would form a solid train OF
sugar filling q railroad track from
New York to Cleveland. That train
would contain almost one third OF
the sugar used in the United States
OF all the sweet teeth in human
jaws, Uncle sam has the sweetest
We are now annually consuming
more than SIS pounds Of sugar per
head. more than 430 pound for every
family in the United States, or more
than a pound a day the whole year
through. In this We are surpassed
only by England and Denmark. which
countries use a vast deal OF sugar
in manufactures OF one kind or an
other. We consume more than twice
as much sugar per capita as the
French or the Austrians- We eat
eight times as much as the Belgians,
and more than four times as much
as either the Spaniards or Turks
Last year our total consumption was
about 100000 tons-sO much, that
if il were loaded upon two horse wa
CONS the rain of teams needed 10
haul il would reach around the world.
II was more than one fifth OF all the
sugar produced during that year.
Most Il From Island Possessions.
Over three fourths of that great
mass Of sugar came from countries
outside the United States, and the
bulk OF it was from cane grown in
Hawaii and the Philippines, and on
the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico.
which sources may be cut off by the
war. II this is so, il is hard to ssf
how high the price of sugar will 20.
Outside the necessity Of sugar for
food. the by products of the refineries
are needed for making munitions Al
cOhol is produced from molasses. and
there is a plump little war bride"
on the other side of the Mississippi
river, not far from where ! am writ
ing, that has grown fat off of the
molasses alcohol she has already sun
piled during this war. Alcohol is
needed to treat nitrared cotton in the
manufacture of smokeless powder
and it is also used in making other
explosives From the consfderst ton
of these things it will be seen how
important sugar is to our national
welfare.
IL sugar state.
And now let me show you where
our domestic sugar comes from. Here
in Louisiana is a good place to learn.
The state is largely dependent uDon
sugar. and it keeps track of the ont
put in all parts of the United States
and all over the world. Just now IL
is greatly increasing its area planted
10 cane. 1t produces almost all OF
the cane sugar OF the United States.
and IL has something like 500. 900 acres
of this crop now in the ground. This
area can be still further increased.
and there are thousands of acres OF
land in Texas that could also be en-
ployed for the purpose. Indeed, cane
Is grown in nearly all OF the southern
states from North Carolina and Ar
kansas southwark, and from the At
lantic coast to Arizona on the west.
A. present. Louisiana is growing al
most the whole of the product. and OF
the cane sugar produced in our coun-
try in the last six years 81 per cent
Of il has come from this state.
Beet Sugar a National Factor.
As to the beet sugar Industry, il is
recent as a national /
factor. II is about a quarter of a cen
fury since beets for sugar began TO !
be successfully grown, but they now