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lias uot yet been marketed. We only had beets euougb to ruu about ninety days, ovr- 

 iug to the unusually dry seasou that prevented the farmers from sowing only about 

 one-half the usual acreage. We sent to market, however, 1,027,826 pounds ichite re- 

 fined sugar, and probably have in tanks, in process of crystallization, 250,000 pounds 

 more. The percentage of sugar obtained was very satisfactory. As this seasou prom- 

 ises to be a favorable one, we expect to have from 15,000 to 20,000 tons of beets. Last 

 year we only had about 7,000 tons. 



The five years' experience of the Standard Sugar Retinery has fully proven that beets 

 raised in California will yield as many tons per acre and are as rich in saccharine mat- 

 ter as any produced in Europe. AVith the aid to this industry that its importance 

 deserves for a few years, sufficient capital would be invested in the production of beet 

 sugar to stop all importation of foreign sugar on the Pacific coast, and supply a large 

 portion of that required east of the Rocky Mountains. We have a soil and climate 

 well adapted to the production of the sugar beet, extending from California to British 

 Columbia. There is room for one hundred factories of a daily capacity of 150 tons 

 each ; and with the same encouragement by ouv Government as the manufacturers 

 in Europe received in the earlier stages of the industry, they would be built in less 

 than 10 years. I will gladly give you any information in regard to the subject that 

 I have, fully realizing that the future success of this important industry depends 

 greatly, if not wholly, upon the encouragement given it by your Department. I in- 

 tend visiting Washington during the session of Congress for the purpose of trying to 

 obtain a modification of the internal-revenue laws that will permit alcohol distilled 

 from beet molasses. to be used solely for mechanical purposes, to be exempt from tax- 

 ation. 



Yours, respectfully, 



E. H. DYER. 



From this letter of Mr. D^^er, it is evident that the manufactiire of 

 sugar from the sugar beet is au assured success on the Pacific coast. 

 There is a vast region of country in Northern California, Oregon, and 

 Washington Territory of which the climate and soil are suitable to this 

 plant.* TThen the extent of this region is considered it does not seem 

 that Mr. Dyer's views of the fnture are exaggerated. I do not have any 

 data of complete analyses of Cahfornia beets. The following data are 

 taken from " The Sugar Beet ":t 



(1) Imported Tilmorin beet : 

 Density of juice, 26^ Balling. 

 Coetficient of purity, 82^.6. 



(2) Early Eed Top beet : 

 Density of juice, 23^.2 Balling. 

 Coefficient of purity, 82o.5. 



(3) Verbesserte Imperial Rose : 

 Density of juice, 20^.5 Balling. 

 Coefficient, of purity, 83^. 



The preceding analyses were made by Mr. P. Cassamajor. 



"McMurrrie, Culture of Sugar Beet. U. S. Agricultural Special Report Xo. '^-r. See 

 map opposite page 2S. 

 tThe Sugar Beet, Vol. 5, Xo. 1. 



