Building History

US Senate Documents of 1906 said this of the Pacific Sugar Company Beet-Sugar Factory being built in 1905: "A company known as the Los Angeles Sugar Company for some time exploited conditions in the Antelope Valley with a view to establishing one or more sugar factories. This company changed its name to the Pacific Sugar Company, contracted for 3,000 acres of beets, and is constructing a plant at Visalia with 350 tons' dailey capacity. A part of the machinery composing the equipment of this plant comes from St. Louis Park, Minn. The company owns a site of 40 acres near the town, which is reached by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The 1st day of Jamuary, 1905, the factory was about half completed and 90 per cent of the machinery on the ground. The plant will be in readiness for the campaign which begins about August, 1906." (See Charles F. Saylor, 59th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 418, US Department of Agriculture Report No. 82: "Progress of the Beet-Sugar Industry in the United States in 1905," [Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1906], p. 82.)

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