Amalgamated Sugar Company
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The Amalgamated Sugar Company is an American sugar beet–refining company run on a cooperative basis. It was founded in 1897 in Ogden, Utah, and is now located in Nampa, Idaho. The company markets its
Employment recruitment ad published in the camp newspaper of Idaho's Minidoka War Relocation Center (May 1, 1943). An essential wartime commodity, sugar beets were processed and used in the manufacture of munitions and synthetic rubber. Japanese-American farm workers were in high demand in the western U.S.
The White Satin Sugar warehouse in Seattle, Washington
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
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The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was a large sugar beet processing company based in Utah. It was owned and controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. It was notable for
Amalgamated Sugar Company
…unsuccessfully to buy the company a few years later. Sugar sales from 1916 to 1920 were handled by Stephen A. Love, who was also the sales manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. In 1918, Amalgamated processed 529,722 tons of sugar beets into 56,166.85 tons of sugar, the first time the company produced over a million hundredweight…
Sugar beet presses at the Garland factory
The Garland factory in 1971
Ingersoll Rand vacuum pump at the Garland factory
Remnants of the Elsinore plant