132 THE SUGAK INDUSTRY. 



its. Mr Ware says that in Europe, the tendency is to abandon this plan, the facto- 

 ries making raw sugar to be shipped to refineries. 



It is quite possible that the system of branch factories tributary to a central plant, 

 similar to the Cambria factory in France, may at some time be established in the 

 United States. The Cambria central factory is located in the midst of beet fields and 

 is also near limestone quarries and coal mines, and has water transportation for all 

 these raw materials. There are 16 rasping stations, the furthest being nine miles 

 away from the central factory, with which they are connected by pipes at these sta- 

 tions. The beets are washed, weighed, sliced, and run into the diffusion batteries in 

 the way common in American beet-sugar factories. The juice from the diffusion bat- 

 teries is then treated with a solution of lime to keep it from acidulating and is forced 

 through pipes to the central sugarhouse, where it is at once carried forward in the 

 manufacturing process in the usual way, with certain modifications. This concern 

 works up 3000 tons of beets daily and with its rasping stations gives employment to 

 2000 men, women and children. 



How to build a factory. All preliminaries having been satisfactorily adjusted 

 and the company ready to build a factory, let it invite bids from the various Ameri- 

 can firms that make a specialty of this work. The announcements of these experts 

 will be found at the close of this book. They are sufficiently numerous to insure 

 competition and the lowest prices consistent with quality of the machinery required. 

 Some of these concerns can also furnish expert managers to conduct the sugar factory 

 through the first campaign, until others can be educated for the purpose. We cannot 

 too strongly urge our readers to in this way get the benefit of all American experi- 

 ence, as well as competition among factory contractors and outfitters. 



COST OF A BEET SUGAR FACTORY. 



Kilby Mfg Co's estimate of approximate cost of building a sugarhouse and refinery of a daily (24 

 hours) capacity of 350 to 400 tons of beets. 



Stone work, foundations and floors, ........ $12,500 



Steel and iron, structural frame and roofs, ....... 16,500 



Brick work, .... 12,000 



Windows and doors, ........... 650 



Hardware, ............ 700 



Painting, ... . . . $00 



Tarred paper for roofs, ......... 300 



Vitrified pipe, .......900 



Cornice, cutters and leaders, ......... 300 



Lumber, ............ 5,000 



Freights on materials, .......... 4,000 



Erecting labor of steel and iron frame, ........ 2,000 



Beet sheds and storage for be^ts, ........ 5,000 



Pulp silo, 4,000 



Complete machinery for refinery, ........ 225,000 



Machinery foundations and masonry for boilers, ...... 5,000 



Fire clay, fire brick, etc, for boilers, kilns, etc, ...... 4,500 



Pipe covering, ............ 2,500 



Labor erecting and starting machinery, ....... 20,000 



Hardware, belting and other fixtures, ........ 5,000 



Freight on machinery, ........ 35,000 



Salaries erecting superintendent and necessary help to superintend erecting and 



starting of sugarhouse and refinery, including traveling and other expenses, 15,000 

 Total, $376,650 



The Walburn-Swenson Co writes: "The cost of machinery complete for a factory 

 of 800 to 350 tons of beets per day, the whole to be of the very best design and work- 



