The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891, November 01, 1879, Page 324, Image 4

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    324 THE WEST SHORE. November, 1879
VIEWS IN ALBANY, OREGON. l rm Holographs by J. U. Crawford and A. li. i'AXTON. seepage 328.
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COURT HOUSE.
revolving drttltl of open wood or iron
work, placed beneath 11 trough of water;
utt extracting the juice by brewing the
pulp, 01 unit ci hi in (j it in water, or ex
1 1 .n 1 1 1 1 1 : it with centrifugals, or by dif
fuKion. In the Improved Method of
maceration, the elaanaed roots are cut
in lUeaa by 11 machine, pasted into
drying chamber, htattd 1050 and mb
Ki'ipicntlv gnwnd to meal. Hut dic
tation now largely practiced in Bu-
roc. The boetl are cut into thin rib
Imiw.; their cells me not much brokeni
nntl purer juire is dissolved, and defe
cated, and evaporated, yielding from
levee to eight pet cent.
These ettablishmentl in France arc
often very large, employing several
hundred men and women. Such man
ufactories produce about sixty-six t'r
daily, or n,6x tons per year. A f ictoiy
capable of producing i2,otx)to 15,000
tons per year can he supplied with all
the requUtte machinery.
TUB CONSUMPTION OF SUOAB IN ORB
(i(iN AM) WASHtNOTON, OK Till UA
IN OP THR COLUMBIA.
The tallies above cited rate forty His.
per person in the United States, l'or
j m ,(k m 1 people in the Columbia valley
and its tributaries, SyOOOXX) lbs. are re-
ODD FELLOWS1 TEMPLE.
quired, or S,ooo tons. The amount
used is estimated at more than twice M
much. The cost at ten cents per iound
is, at forty pounds each, $8oo,ooo.
THE EUROPEAN PRODUCT AN INDEX.
The factories of Europe now make
annually the vast amount of 946xx)
tons of beet sugar, which is equal to
1,99,000,00 lbs., and is worth at ten
cents per tl. $199,200,000. The peo
ple of the United States consume 847,
ix tons annually, or 1,694,000,000 ft
which costs the consumers, at ten centi
per pound, the enormous sum of $i6ov
(XI,(XX).
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