Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . esugar is dried, and,at the same time,sort the grains ac- ;cording to size tomeet the market de-mand. These grainsare then packed invarious kinds andsizes of containers,from 2-lb. cottonbags and 2-lb. car-tons to 100-lb. bagsand 350-lb. barrels. The small packagemachines for puttingup the 2-lb., 5-lb., 10-Ib. and 25-lb. pack-ages seem to be en-dowed witii almosthuman operators willfill, weigh, sew anddeliver, ready foi- themarket, thirty pack-ages a minute of tlu •?• ,^| \^.smaller sizes, and the weigiit will not vary onc-sixlcenlh (if ;iiii
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . esugar is dried, and,at the same time,sort the grains ac- ;cording to size tomeet the market de-mand. These grainsare then packed invarious kinds andsizes of containers,from 2-lb. cottonbags and 2-lb. car-tons to 100-lb. bagsand 350-lb. barrels. The small packagemachines for puttingup the 2-lb., 5-lb., 10-Ib. and 25-lb. pack-ages seem to be en-dowed witii almosthuman operators willfill, weigh, sew anddeliver, ready foi- themarket, thirty pack-ages a minute of tlu •?• ,^| \^.smaller sizes, and the weigiit will not vary onc-sixlcenlh (if ;iiiiiiiiice from absohile coi-i-ecliicss. The warehouses al the plant of theCalifornia and Hawaiian .Sugar HeliningCompany arc very extensive, as all theraw is received during a period ofnine miinlhs. while the relinery is oper-ated during the entire year. At timesthere is as iiiuili as ( tons of sugarsloied al Crockett, representing conser-vatively a value of .?^1,20(1,0(10. The natural puiiil nf interest to the. casual visitor, however, when he hasdone admiring the immense warehousesand the wharves along which they run,is the big seven-story factory that isoperating night and day, without cessa-tion, practically 365 days in the refinery proper contains an immenseamount of machinery on every floor frombasement to roof: This one buildingalone covers a ground area of 300 feetin length by 200 feet in width, and isonly one of a groupof many buildingswhich comprise thewhole plant. Thearea covered by allthe buildings repre-sents about eightacres, and informa-tion is given out thatthe improvementswhich have just beencompleted are butthe beginning of aseries of enlarge-ments that will ulti-mately make the re-finery at Crockettline of the largest, ifnot the very largest,in the world. Plansthat are al presentdrawn, of which llierecent enlargementsare a part, conlem-plate a refinery witha melting capaeily of n;^^ n,«-su(?»r «o .1,()() ])()linils of sug
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