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 7,000 or 8,000 next year to meet the doubled capacity. It is expected that about 30,000 tons of beets will be used this year and about 9,000,000 lbs. of sugar made, or 300 lbs. of sugar to a ton of beets. The price paid for beets is $3.25 per ton for 12 per cent, sugar content, plus 25 cents for each additional per cent. The average price paid for beets during the month of August was $1.67. Tho sugar content averaged17-18 per cent. The factory comprises a main building, 66×260 feet, three stories high: an annex, containing boiler and kiln rooms, 72×140 feet; a machine shop, 25×50 feet; a seed warehouse, 30×60 feet; and a refined sugar warehouse, 50×150 feet; four artesian wells supply the water and a 200 horse power engine runs the machinery. The present profits are placed at $1,800 per day. The factory cost $400,000, and from October 20th, ’96, to July 20th, ’97, nine month was occupied in building,—Anaheim Gazette.