Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . and its re-sources. The Califor-nia and Ha-waiian Sugar Re-fining Companyemploys at itsCrockett plant in theneighborhood of (K)()men on its regularstaff, and when steamersare in from the Hawai-ian Islands dischargingsugar the force is in-creased at times to 1(I(K) es from. An Hawaiian cane-fleld in bloom,the sugar-cane. Crushing the canein plantation mill. Pacific Service Magazine 77 afforded by the information that it istoday in a position to melt 2,000,000pounds of raw sugar in every twenty-four hours. The steamers delivering raw sugar tothis plant represe
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . and its re-sources. The Califor-nia and Ha-waiian Sugar Re-fining Companyemploys at itsCrockett plant in theneighborhood of (K)()men on its regularstaff, and when steamersare in from the Hawai-ian Islands dischargingsugar the force is in-creased at times to 1(I(K) es from. An Hawaiian cane-fleld in bloom,the sugar-cane. Crushing the canein plantation mill. Pacific Service Magazine 77 afforded by the information that it istoday in a position to melt 2,000,000pounds of raw sugar in every twenty-four hours. The steamers delivering raw sugar tothis plant represent the latest skill in theshipbuilding trade, and cargoes of 13,000tons capacity have been discharged atthe companys wharves. The facilitiesfor discharging and receiving the sugarare excellent, inasmuch as 2500 tons are. The refining process, briefly described,consists of washing the superficial im-purities off the outside of the raw sugargrains, melting the resultant sugar andfiltering it, first through finely-woven cot-ton bags and then through bone filtration changes tlie liituor from alight brown or straw coh)r to a jnirewhite; that is, it makes it transparentlike plate-glass. After the filtration iscomplete, the white liquor is drawn intolarge vacuum pans where^ the surplus moisture isdriven from tlie liquor byboiling at a low (empera-ture witli the aid of vac-uum, and when the masslias reached the consist-ency of lialf-formed ice orthick oatmeal mush, it isdropped from the pans discharged ri-mn one shipin nine hours time. Ihe sugar, up to the(hilly melting capacity, isplaced directly on con-veyors and sent in to therillnery proper, where IIIs handled most expedlti-(iiisly with the aid of theInlesI labor-saving and sci-(iillllc machinery known DIII the iiliiiliig business. i si,.ii.,i-
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