Brigham City’s Sugar Factory
- Ken Bott
- Apr 27
- 2 min read
In 1903, the Utah Idaho Sugar Company built a $1,000,000 sugar factory in Garland, Utah. Due to high demand for sugar, it was decided to build another factory in Brigham City in 1916. A site was chosen just around 900 West and north of 600 North on “Watery Lane,” named for the Box Elder Creek running parallel to it. The area is in the vicinity of the Trestlewood Company currently. E.H. Dyer built the plant and it was stocked with used equipment from a discontinued sugar plant that was transferred to the Brigham facility. Brigham’s plant was constructed at a cost of $425,000. As demand continued, a plant was also started in Honeyville but was abandoned before it was finished.
In 1917, the Brigham City plant was sold to the Amalgamated Sugar Company (though plans to sell may have been going on during construction). The U&I Sugar Co took back over the building in 1920 and it ran until 1933. “Curly Top” decreased production, at times, and farmers eventually used less and less land for sugar beets. In 1937, there was a plan to re-open it after acreage issues and another issue, the whitefly blight, were reportedly resolved though the plant didn’t run again. It appears to have been dismantled and sold in 1943. The building stood for many more years.
Years later, CPS Manufacturing also built in the area and started manufacturing homes but the home built for the sugar plant superintendent remained (just to the right of the manufactured home).
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