120 years ago today - Oct 23, 1891

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 23 In Company with many others including my wife Emma I took Cars & rode to Lehi to visit the sugar works. It was vary interesting. It took us several hours to go through the works. First we visited the store houses whare the new beets were stored. There were 3 sheds 500 feet long filled with Beets & room for 2 more. There was a Canal runing in the Middle of the sheds with runing water whare the Beets were flung in & washed in the Curant. The beets were never touched again by hand but were sliced up by Machinery & the juce pressed out & traveled in pipes three Miles & then droped into sacks pure white granulated sugar. It was a great institution at a Cost of a about 500,000 Dollars. We then returned home. Distance 80 m.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]