San Francisco, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from San Francisco, Vol. 1: Its Builders, Past and Present, Pictorial and BiographicalAt this time he turned his attention to the business in which he later amassed a magnificent fortune and which made the name of Spreckels known throughout the civilized world. As a grocer he knew the difference between the cost of raw and refined sugar and realized the profits to be made in sugar refining. He organized the Bay Sugar Refinery Company and built a plant with a capacity of five hundred barrels per day. He personally visited New York, selecting the equip ment which in his judgment was best suited to conditions here, and practically instituted a new method of refining. He continued as head of the Bay Sugar Refinery until 1865, during which time the company paid large returns. In that year he disposed of his inter ests. The refining of beet sugar had attracted his attention and in 1865 he visited Europe with his family, spending the succeeding two years in a careful study of the methods of refining beet sugar as practiced in Germany, even working in the refinery as a common laborer in order to acquaint himself with all phases of the business. On his return to San Francisco, believing that labor conditions were not favorable to the profitable manufacture of beet sugar, he again turned his attention to the refining of cane sugar and in 1867 estab lished the California Sugar Refinery, building a plant at Eighth and Brannan streets. He controlled this organization and became its president. Going to New York, he personally superintended the con struction of the machinery for his plant, much of it being the result of his own inventive genius and resulting in revolutionizing the sugar refining industry. Though operations were begun on a small scale, they were carried on with such skill and the product of the refinery was so improved that the Spreckels sugar soon became celebrated in the markets of the world. Within a few years two large buildings had been added to the plant and the output was increased to fifty million pounds of refined sugar annually. Mr. Spreckels invented and patented a process and a machine for the manufacturing of loaf and cube sugar direct from the centrifugals and by these methods was enabled to turn out both crushed and cube sugar within twenty four hours after the centrifugal process had been completed, whereas by former methods several weeks had been required.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.