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tention of erecting in '99 a second sugar factory, making their total investment 

 $1,325,000. 



When it is considered that Messrs. Clark are of the most conservative type, 

 successful in all their business ventures, possessors of unlimited capital, the at- 

 tractions which the beet sugar industry offered must have been more than ordinary. 



The following letters confirm all that has been affirmed by the writer: 



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LEHI, UTAH, September 9, 1895. 



DEAR SIR : In answer to your inquiry, we beg to say that we made an ex- 

 tensive tour in Europe last year, visiting quite a number of the largest beet sugar 

 factories in Germany, Belgium, and France. Of course we picked up quite a 

 number of ideas, but came to the conclusion that our factory was as compact as 

 any we saw. The arrangements of the machinery in many factories in Europe 

 being of the nature that there is no regard for economy of labor. We will say 

 that our factory is satisfactory to us ; the machinery being placed in such a form 

 as to very much economize the labor question. 



Our factory was built by E. H. Dyer & Co., with guaranted capacity of 300 

 tons of beets for each twenty-four hours. We will say that we have demonstrated 

 already that they gave us everything that was contracted for. 



Last season we ran as high as 411 tons through in one day, and the average 

 for the entire season was 335 tons per day. We are hoping and expecting that 

 we shall exceed that average this season. 



We have also been quite fortunate, since we commenced five years ago, in hav- 

 ing no serious breakages that entailed any loss of time. 



We are perfectly satisfied that with beets that will give us the average polariza- 

 tion of 16 per cent, that we can make granulated white sugar at less than three cents 

 per pound. We employ an average of ninety men inside the factory, that is, forty 

 five on a shift. Yours truly, 



(Signed) THOMAS R. CUTLER, Manager. 



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Los ALAMITOS, CAL., Sept. 26, 1897. 

 MR. CLARENCE M. FENTON, Secy., 

 Erie Preserving Co., 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



DEAR SIR : Your favor of the 2oth inst., asking for information regarding 

 our factory and its builders, E. H. Dyer & Co., received. In reply, will say that 

 the factory and its product has been perfectly satisfactory in every particular, the 

 factory having run over its estimated capacity, and the product is pronounced to 

 be by all, the finest sugar in the market. In regard to the factory and its builders, 

 E. H. Dyer & Co., we have this to say, that the quality, arrangement and 

 efficiency of the machinery seems to be most perfect, enabling us to do the greatest 

 amount of work with the minimum amount of labor and fuel. Situated, as we 

 are, in the beet-growing West, and being near the Chino factory, acknowledged to 

 be of the finest European machinery, we have had unusual opportunities for com- 

 parison, and do not hesitate to say that we have the model plant of America. 



As to the Dyers, we take pleasure in saying that they have given ample proof 

 that they are thoroughly experienced, capable and honest, and that any contract 



