This article is from the The Sugar beet, Volume 24, Issue 7, one of the three principal trade publications covering the Sugar Industry throughout the world. The Beet’s correspondent, Rialto, resided in San Francisco and primarily culled his information from the Southern California newspapers, the Anaheim Gazette, Sana Ana Blade, the Chino Champion, and sometimes … Read more
LOS ALAMITOS, Cal.—The beet sugar factory of the Los Alamitos Sugar Co. employs 75 men day and night, and produces 40 tons of granulated sugar per day. The capacity of tho factory is from 300-100 tons, but 408 tons of beets have been sliced in one day; 3,500 acres are cultivated in beets, but this will be raised to … Read more
18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men and the same time the pleasantest in all Southern California is Frank J. Capitain of the Alamitos Land Co., which together with the Alamitos Sugar Co. has within twelve months laid out the town of … Read more
APRIL 1897 – Ralph Edward Bicknell writes a short description of Los Alamitos in its earliest stages. Bicknell was young but prolific writer who died in 1904, his 23rd year. Born in 1881, he was diagnosed with consumption in 1896 and upon doctor’s recommendations, the family relocated to Southern California. In April 1897, his parents … Read more
The Los Alamitos Sugar Factory was operated for its original purpose for a little over 20 years – from 1897, when it opened as a state of the art facility and the first beet sugar factory in Orange County. Within a few years there would be five beet sugar factories in the county, all … Read more
A number of interesting facts about the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory can be discerned from this U.S. Government report on the factory and how it might be applicable to raising revenue in the new U.S. territory of the Philippines. 1906 – Revenue for the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before The Committee on the Philippines of the … Read more
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more
One of the best things about Google’s effort to digitize library book collections is that much information on the early days of Los Alamitos has popped up in a number of very unexpected sources. Extensive information which we have been already sharing on this site has been spelunked from the three major beet sugar industry … Read more
24 NOV 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette , Vol 1, No. 10 (December 1900) Chicago Illinois, p18 LOS ALAMITOS, CAL. Editor Beet Sugar Gazette:—The unusually long drouth of this coast was terminated last Thursday, the 22d inst., by a genuine “sou’easter,” rain falling to the amount of 2.40 inches in less than ten hours, and … Read more