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Pag;e Two LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. LA GRANDE, ORE. Friday, ffune 1, 1934 ILL T( 1 La b I S ma Bake La Holt' Pleai Cov Parii Elfc'li Unf n orid senb way tori Bak hat) BEET SUGAR TODAY REACHES HIGH STATE OF PERFECTION Pure Sugar Now Produced Entirely From American l1 arms Meets With Growing Approval of American Housewives. To Oliver de Scrrcn. a French agro nomist, goes Die credit lor discover ing the fact that the beet root con tained auger. No immediate use waa made of thlo discovery and It was nearly fllty years (1747) before An drew 8. Margraf, a Prussian chemist carried on experiment which result ed In obtaining sugar crystals from beets. His work bore fruit through his pupil. Karl Fran Acliard, who after the death of Margraf carried on his work. Achard succeeded In In teresting Frederick the Groat In the possibility of extracting beet sugar commercially and secured financial assistance from him. The emperor died In 1786 and the work ceased uri ll his successor, Frederick William 01 became Interested, By 1799, Ar chard had developed a practical method of extraction ead In 1B07 a Schilling r epper The luxury of good pepper is anyone's. It costs no mora. factory was ready for operation ftt Cunern, Silesia. This factory sue ceeded In producing a email quantity of sugar at a high cost. It Is Interesting to not that tho producers of cane sugar, alarmed at the threatened invasion of their field, offered Achard S30,000.0t to discon tinue lm experiments. Two years later he received, and refused another offer of $120,000.00. In 1803 an experimental factory was built near Paris, These early at tempts were handicapped by low sugar content of the beet and by lack of efficient methods of extraction. Their actual recovery of sugar was only two per cent. The establishment of the beet sugar' Industry on a commercial basis waa an outgrowth of th0 Napoleonic warn Importation to Franco of sugars pro duced In BrJtlnh colonies was prohi bited fry Napoleon's embargo of 1806 and British retaliation cut off tho supply from France's own colonial possessions. Ac a result sugar price rose to unbearable heights. That year! the French government offered a bounty on domestic sugar production and In 1811 the first French com mercial factory was built near Lille. Napoleon oaw the possibility of the Industry and took Immediate and characteristically vigorous steps to foster It, He arranged for selected students from technical schools to be i sent to specially provided beet sugar I schools and set aside large tracts of J land to be devoted to beet-rateing. A government grant of 1,000,000 franca was used for research work In de- DO YOU GET GOOD RADIO RECEPTION In moHt cases poor tubes are responsible for many of the noises and other distracting effects in your radio. We have been appointed by the KCA Victor Co. to handle the famous RCA RADIOTRON TUBES Call us if your radio reception is not tfood. A new tube may be nil that you need. Wring: in your tubes we will test tiiem free. We also have the most complete Radio Service De partment in Eastern Oregon. Guaranteed Radio Ser vice Work. ("No guess work.") RADIO & MUSIC SUPPLY CO. First National Hank Building Phone Main 805 vol oping beets to higher sugar con tent and the extraction processes to greater efficiency. These measures were so effective that by 1818, 334 smalt sugar factories were operating In Franco. With the fall of Napoleon and the end of the wars, European ports were thrown open to cheap cane sugar competition and the Infant In dustry was nearly killed. The work carried on, however, Pe louze developed better plant breed ing Information and better methods of manufacture were discovered. Gov ernmental aid In the form of subsi dies and bounties was forthcoming in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary. Belgium and the Netherlands. Ger many in particular formulated con sistent protective legislation and the growth of the Industry there was more sound than In France. Considerable attention was given In Germany to the Improvement of the beet and to1 tho processes of manufacture. The j success of that work was so thorough ! that at the outbrenk of tho World war Europe had 1200 factories refin ing 0,000,000 tons of sugar annually: nearly one-holf the world's supply. Beet sugar had displaced cane almost completely In the European markets. The sugar beets, which In tho begin ning carried only 4 per cent of sugar had been built to more than 15 per cent; the crude, Inefficient method of refining had been brought to high degree of perfection and the factories could make pure sugar at competitive casts. The pioneering . process in the United States has been nearly as ar- duous. Beets were first grown suc cessfully, for experimental purposes, near Philadelphia In 1838. Two years later the first factory waa built at Northampton, Mass. This plant suc ceeded In making 1300 lbs. of sugar. but the venture was a financial fail ure. During the period from 1838 to 1870 numerous attempt were made to establish factories but all resulted In failures. The Mormons of Utah in 1852 made en attempt to found the Industry there. Machinery and eeed wcrs purchased In France and a study made of the methods in use. The machinery was carried by boat to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to Fort boa ve a worth, Kan. From there, 62 ox teams were used to carry It more than 1000 miles overland to Salt Loke City, where It was sot up. Difficulty wai encountered In getting the sugar to crystallize; only syrup was produced and the factory waj abandonod In 1855. Other factories wero built In Illi nois, Wisconsin, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts and California. They were small and the costs high. Im perfect machinery, low quality o beets, lack of experienced beet raisers and lack of governmental and other Interest, all militated against , their success and all woo given up. It re mained Jor E. H. Dyer, In 1870, after Tour complete financial failures to place a factory at Alvarado, Califor nia, on a paying basis. Claus Sprock et built a plant at Watsonvllle, Cal ifornia, In 1888, which operated at a profit. , In 1B90 tho Oxnnrd brothers, after a careful study of European methods built a foctory at Grand Island, Ne braska, and followed It, in 1801, with plants at Norfolk, Nebraska, nnd Chlno. California. 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The Ding ley act of 1807 gave the first effective tariff protection and stimulated development. During the same period technical schools were being drawn on for scientific minds to Instruct the grower and the manufacturer. The bus! new was suc cessfully launched. Its growth since 1897 has been fair ly constant. Adverse legislation has threatened It at times and retarded Its growth, but the trend has been regular. The Underwcod-61mmons tariff act of 1914 reduced th tariff and proposed to plr.ee sugar on the free list Jn 1910: but the effect ofr the .ct was nullified by ttie outbreak' of the World war and the resultant sugar shortage. In 1017 14 factories were built in the United States, with combined dally slicing capacity of 11,000 tons of beets. Thus the period from 1790 to 1933 has watched the growth of the beet sugar industry In the United States from an experimental ' stage to a vastly Important affair; from, an In fant, struggling against adverse con ditions arising from Ignorance, faulty tool j of trade, and lack of apprecia tion and understanding of Its poten tialities, to a well-established, i and highly organized commercial and agricultural enterprise. In 1933 beet sugar factories refined 1.629,000 tons of sugar from beets grown on 984.6C) acre of land. The recovery of sugar from, each ton of beets rose from 6 per cent in 1891 to 15.23 per cent in loaa. in tne waxe oi. increased sugar production in the United States has followed more efficient farming, high r yields of other crops as they have followed beets, increased land values, expansion of Irrigation, sound banks and shorter delinquent tax lists. MERCHANTS OF CITY WARNED AGAINST TWO A letter has been received by Lynn Larson, secretary of the chamber of commerce warning merchants of aU towns in Oregon to be on the lookout for Fred Hart whose last known ad dress was 1606 X avenue. La Grande and A. A. Breese, 628 E. Benton st., Pocatello, Idaho. These two men are alleged to have been working confi dence game and swindling merchants out of hundreds of dollars In several western states, it is reported. They claim to be representing the different periodicals. Including the Brother hoods' publications. Hart is known here, having made his home in La Grande for several years. 'Eastern Oregon 'Lambs Bring Top Price Here (Continued from Page one) prices may be secured. The association Is now preparing for shipment a double deck car of hogs which will be shipped from El gin tomorrow. MRS. L. KIDDLE ON TRW EAST Mrs. Lyle Kiddle accompanied iy her son, Robert, iia left on an ex. tended trip east. 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