132 THE SUGAR 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 atthe 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 tle 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 (2+ 
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, 800 
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 ana storage for beets, 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, ae - $376,650 
The Walburn-Swenson Co writes: ‘‘The cost of machinery complete for a factory 
of 300 to 350 tons of beets per day, the whole to be of the very best design and work- 
