CHAPTER ILI. 
HOW THE INDUSTRY HAS 
GROWN IN EACH STATE. 
CALIFORNIA. 
The Golden State is on the eve of an enormous development of her beet-sugar 
industry. The remarkable success of this industry in recent years has stimulated both 
capitalists and farmers to push this new industry to the utmost in case the American 
PRESIDENT ALLEN. 
R. M. Allen, president of the American suyar 
growers’ society, is also president of the Nebraska 
state sugar growers’ society and one of the largest 
growers of sugar beets in the country, having 
grown 500 acres of beets annually for the past six 
years. He is also a large cattle feeder and is pro- 
foundly impressed with the vast possibilities of 
the beet sugar industry and of the great value in 
cattle feeding of the beet pulp from the factory 
and of the beet tops. 
market is reserved for American sugar. 
Experiments in many parts of the state 
have been conducted extensively during 
the past six years. In many of these cases, 
the beets have been raised on a large scale 
and shipped to existing factories, some 
being hauled long distances. In other cases, 
the crop has been used as feed for stock 
while the farmers were learning how to 
raise the crop, and demonstrating the 
adaptability of the sugar beet to their pe- 
culiar soil by having the beets analyzed at 
the state experiment station. It is now 
evident that there are hundreds of square 
miles of the richest land in the world avail- 
able for sugar-beet culture in the Golden 
State. 
The factory of the Alameda sugar com- 
pany, at Alvarado, will probably be en- 
larged this year. During the campaign 
with the 1896 crop, it has worked up about 
55,000 tons of beets. Tieir sugar content 
varied from 12 to 18 per cent, with from 
70 to 88 per cent co-efficient of purity, 
averaging over 15 per cent of sugar and 
81 purity. We give on Page 33 an excel- 
lent photo-engraving of this historical 
pioneer factory. 
In the 1895 campaign Alvarado worked 27,385 tons of beets into 5,400,000 lbs of 
sugar, the beets averaging 13 per cent of sugar. 
MR SPRECKELS’ ENTERPRISE AT WATSONVILLE 
in Santa Cruz county, near the coast, about 75 miles south of San Francisco, and 25 
miles north of Monterey, has the credit of standing at the head of the sugar industry 
