Show SUGAR FROM BEETS claus spreckels lias has returned from europe where here 4 for federal months lie has been investigating the beet sugar industries of the old world tho the purpose e of hie his trip was to gain the information ns t on and secure the tho plant requisite to establish in california a great sa system s of sugar factories for the sit supply aply of the markela markets of the united states he ile is reported as having returned in poss possession elsion of f both and as having said to an interviewer 1 I do not see any reason having studied the question sto carefully why results as antis satisfactorily actoris as those reached in europe should not attend the culture of the best st in this country my judgment has been correct before in the matter of sugar raising and I 1 rely on it now we hope the people of santa clara county appreciate the full importance to them of a development of this industry in california there are thousands of aar acres es of land in santa clara clam valley which for sugar beet culture are unsurpassed anywhere in the world although a very strong effort will doubtless be made by the alameda county people to secure the location af of the sprockets spreckels place at alvarado it is is understood that the site ia is not yet determined upon 1 we firmly believe that an exertion of a strong and unified influence by t the lie citizens of our lection ejection might result in bringing it hither with it will come if it comes many thousands of capital and many scores of laborers each full of blessing to the chosen locality this is a matter which it will mill not do to let elip slip or delay or neglect itis it is a p present r sent chance to see secure to t the a location om tio n of a giant enterprise amon among us and eve every effort should be male made i to seize it and bold hold it and induce its location in santa clara clam county san jose mercury Ver curr ogdon ogden ought to have a factory such as mr spreckels to establish in california the vast stretch of dry sweet non alkali bench land between hero and kaysville Kays ville was made for sugar beets the lands are worth with water from 15 to 35 per acre fifteen tons of beets to the acre would be an average crop if the price were but 10 a ton or wa cent a pound the crop would bring per acre or 5 times the cost of the land with ten thousand acres costing only a quarter of a million dollars a man in might ight easily cisily grow tons worth at the astonishingly low price elated stated the enormous sum of allow a round million for labor interest taxes and all other expenses attendant upon the land and its cultivation ti and there remains one half million dollars of profit just U t twice ilia cost of the land sir claus ia is respectfully invited to examine the foregoing calculation and decide it if california can offer him anything in comparison here ho lie might own the lands and gain a double profit in the golden state with real estate up to fabulous fabulo ua prices a tract of euch such magnitude would be burdensome even to the sugar croesus owing to the value of the land the price of the california beete beets would necessarily bo be quadruple m what hat it might becero o bore besides and this is no trifling feature the sugar would be when hn produced 1000 miles nearer its market it if made in ogden than if made in Cal california dornia |