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Garden City Sugar and Land Company Lease
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1915-1919: Capper)
Date: February 17, 1915
This file includes a letter and lease for the Sugar and Land Company in Garden City, Kansas. This file is part of a bigger collection of Governor Arthur Capper correspondence.
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Scott City high school students working in a sugar cane field
Date: 1918
This is a photograph showing Scott City high school students cutting, gathering, and running stalks of cane through a horse-powered press, a step in the manufacture of cane syrup. During World War I, students helped fill a labor void on many Kansas farms.
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Sugar Manufacturing in Kansas
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1879-1883: Glick)
Date: 1883-1885
These two letters are from C. H. Sweetser and H. C. Wermoth, dated September 25th, 1884 and February 12th, 1884, regarding sugar manufacturing in Kansas to Kansas Governor G. W. Glick. Sweetser was the president of the State Association of Cane Growers and Sugar Manufacturers. Sweetser discusses the sorghum sugar production in Hutchinson, Kansas and the future of sugar production in Kansas. Wermoth discusses the future of sugar cane as well as the upcoming meeting. During the 1800's, in Kansas, a considerable amount of sugar was produced from cane sorghum. J. W. Converse operated the sugar mill in Hutchinson, Kansas, while M. Severson was the superintendent.
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