The Brigham Young Center

Salt Lake City, U.T.
May 30. 1871

Mr. G.T. Chapman,
at Mess. Spofford Brow & Co., 29 Broadway. N.Y.

Dear Sir:

Your elaborate and highly interesting Communication on the manufacture of beet sugar has been received. It came by Wells, Fargo & Co's Express, enclosed in a parcel containing a package of Beet Seed and a sample of Sugar, with which was the pamphlet alluded to in your letter.

The beet has been cultivated quite extensively in this Territory for many years, the climate is quite favorable, and the soil generally, very well adapted for its production.

About seventeen years ago, an attempt was made to manufacture the sugar from the beet, and extensive machinery was imported here by us for that purpose but after considerable outlay the project was abandoned. Since that time we have made plantations on the Sandwich Islands, and are now making sugar from the cane with quite flattering success.

As there is considerable means invested in the enterprise, and we would much rather
promote than retard it, we are of the opinion that it would not be advisable for us to
attempt the introduction of your machinery at the present

Thanking you, however, for the pains you have taken and wishing you success in your
business.

I am,
Yours very respectfully
Brigham Young