Excerpt from Progress of the Beet-Sugar Industry in the United States in 1901 To illustrate the development of the industry the State of Michigan may be cited. That State will have 17 factories in operation during the campaign of 1902, a result accomplished in the space of four years. The thing that made Michigan a peculiarly favorable field for the introduction of this industry was the fact that it could be built up on the foundations of another - the lumber industry, which is waning. There are 30 more projects under consideration and probably more factories will be built in the near future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.