Item Detail
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3392
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English
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The Failure of Utah's First Sugar Factory
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 1988
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56
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36-53
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The Deseret Manufacturing Company was organized in 1852 by John Taylor, in France, and sent some sugar beet seed to Utah that year. The first efforts at manufacturing sugar failed, and by the end of 1853 the DMC was broke. The principle stockholders turned their interest over to the LDS Church, and following that a sugar factory was built under the direction of Truman O. Angell. After many delays, it was completed, and sugar manufacturing was begun in February, 1855, but by the end of 1856 it hadfailed. Contrary to the popular reason given that the failure was due to lack of charcoal, Schmalz says that the principle problem at Sugar House was with boiling sugar--the company was unable to produce and hold the vacuum required to do it. Other factors inclueded the quality of Utah beets (higher salt content than those grown elsewhere), the imminent arrival of Johnston's army, general hard times, alternate uses for the machinery, and Brigham Young's sensitivity to pursuing a project that had been a public failure.
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