THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY INT 11)20. 



Table III. — Beet-sugar mills destroyed or used for other purposes than 



in a kin (j sugar. 



No. 



Location. 



California. .-. 



Virginia 



New Mexico 

 Minnesota. . . 

 Illinois 



Watsonville. . . 



Staunton 



Eddy 



St. Louis Park 

 Pekin 



Date 

 erect- 

 ed. 



1888. 

 1892. 

 1896. 

 1898. 

 1899. 



Name of company. 



Western Beet Sugar Co 



O.K. Lapham 



Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Co 



Minnesota Sugar Co 



Illinois Sugar- Refining Co.. 



Capac- 

 ity 

 (tons). 



1,000 



(«) 



200 

 350 

 700 



Present status. 



Dismantled. 



Burned, 1894. 

 Burned, 1903. 

 Burned, 1905. 

 Glucose plant, 

 1902. 



a Not known. 



The 106 mills now standing are for the most part favorably sit- 

 uated for extracting: and refining beet sugar under present condi- 

 tions. In manv instances certain limiting factors will need careful 



Fig. 2. — Outline map showing the original location of 26 beet-sugar uiLis ('■'; and 

 the points to which they were removed (R). For example, IE shows the original 

 location of mill No. 1 and 1R the point to which that mill was removed ; 2E the 

 original location of mill No. 2 and 2R the point to which it was removed ; and so 

 on for each mill listed in Table II. Factories 21E and 22E are in the same loca- 

 tions as those designated by 2R and 5R. 



consideration and readjustment before a sufficient quantity of raw 

 material can be assured annually to make all of them permanently 

 successful. In many areas beet-sugar mills have been crowded in too 

 rapidly, so that it has not been possible to readjust the farming opera- 

 tions and install the required drainage, irrigation, and other improve- 

 ments with sufficient rapidity to provide the necessary well-prepared 

 acreage to supply enough sugar beets to insure a normal mill run. Con- 

 sequently neither the mill owners nor the growers have received under 

 these conditions a maximum return for the money and labor invested 



