THE BEET-SUGAB. INDUSTRY IN 1920. 
Table I T I . — Beet-sugarr mills destroyed or used for other purposes than 
making sugar. 
No. 
Local ion. 
Date 
creel- 
ed. 
Name of company. 
Capac- 
ity 
(tons). 
Present stal us. 
State. 
Town. 
1 
? 
California 
Virginia 
New Mexico . . 
Minnesota 
Illinois 
Watsonvillc 
Staunton 
Eddy 
St. Louis Park.. 
Pekin 
1888... 
1892... 
1896... 
1898... 
Western Beet Sugar Co 
O.K. Lapham 
1,0()() 
(a) 
200 
350 
700 
Dismantled. 
Burned, 1894. 
3 
4 
Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Co 
Burned, 1903. 
Burned. 190"). 
1899... 
Illinois Sugar-Refining Co 
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 many instances certain limiting factors will need careful 
Fig. 2. — Outline map showing the original location of 2<; beet-sugar mills (E) and 
the points to which they were removed (R). For example, IB shows the original 
location of mill No. 1 and 1R the point to which that mill was removed; 2B 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 21B and 22E are in the same loca- 
. lions 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 
