— 6o — 
which some prefer. The forks are slightly curved and nar- 
rowest at the center. 
FACTORY REQUIREMENTS, MACHINERY, ETC. 
The Sugar company at Norfolk, Neb., was given a 
bonus of $100,000 cash and fifty acres of land to build and 
operate its factory there. The Grand Island company is 
said to have been given also a bonus of $100,000. The 
Utah Sugar company was given as a bonus, quite an amount 
of land for the factory site, including a reservoir covering 
some 42 acres, together with all water rights and privi- 
leges connected with it. 
The first necessity of a beet sugar factory is that it have a 
sure supply of good beets. A modern factory of the mini- 
mum size for economy now built, will cost some $300,000, 
besides the capital to run it. This would use 350 tons of 
beets per day, and would need beets to be grown on from 
3,000 to 5,000 acres of land. Allowing for crop rotation, 
this means that some 10,000 to 15,000 acres of good beet 
land should be fairly near a sugar factory. Such a factory 
would use some 50 tons of coal, and say 20 to 50 tons of good 
limestone per day. The lime rock must be very free from 
silica, iron, magnesia, or sulphate of lime. It must be nearly 
pure carbonate of lime. One of the verv necessary needs 
is a fair amount of good water, not alkaline, for steam pur- 
poses, diffusion process, praying the sugar, etc. It is claimed 
by French sugar journals that it is never desirable to use in 
a diffusion battery, a water containing more than one part 
of solid matter in two thousand. 
The following is an average of 25 analyses of the water 
of the Pecos river, at Eddy, New Mexico, showing the solids 
in 100,000 parts of water. 
Chloride of sodium 100 
Carbonate of lime 10 
Sulphate of lime 130 
Carbonate of magnesia 3 
Sulphate of magnesia 50 
Silica 2 
Alumina and sesqui-oxide of iron 3 
Sundries 2 
300 
A like average of the analyses of 25 samples of water 
from Dark Canon, shows in 100,000 parts of water, solids as 
follows : 
