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Show Indications Point To Big Beet Acreage Gunnison Valley's big payroll, the Gunnison Sugar factory, from all indications, in-dications, will be .maintained and kept going, due to the gratifying conditions that, now exist. Not for many yeara has the outlook been so rosy as now and beet growers are taking a different differ-ent attitude of conditions and fire looking forward to the future with a more satisfied air. The heavy aoows throughout, the valley, which insures water for early moisture and which will put the ground in first class shape for early cultivation, and the millions of acre feet of water stored in the watersheds, and with the assurance as-surance of all reservoirs filled for the summer irrigations, there is rcAson for rejoicing, because the future for the coming season looks -mighty gvW. And the fact that there is to be an abundant supply of water is not tho only cause for rejoicing. . Beet growers grow-ers who suffered losses during the dry and pest infected seasons for the post three years, are determined to retrieve re-trieve their losses and figure that beets will be the only cash crop that will pull them out of the hole, and to this end are making plans for seeding certain acreages on their best lands to beets. Reports from all parts of Gunnison valley, as well as the territory terri-tory in' Sevier county, indicate that a big acreage will be planted to beets during the coming spring. Field-men, Field-men, working with growers are advising advis-ing the selection of lands best suited for beet growing and no more than can be safely taken care of. This plan, if carried out, will insure better crops and a greater tonnage, thn many acres planted on poor land ;inJ improperly cared for. "This is a beet year," declared a grower yesterday. "I wras among tho many who suffered in the dry years and I will confess . that, losses ': losses took tho heart out of me. i.-ifc I see a different condition now hikI I am going- to retrieve some of my losses los-ses this coming season. It must, be beets, too, for the reason that I ni assured of $7.50 for every" ton f beola I deliver and the cash that will follow delivery of my product, will be a real prosent. If every farmer will devote de-vote from five to fifteen acres of hia best land to beets, plant, care for nnd imgate properly, he will be the farmer farm-er who will have early cash for his crops. Hay, grain, vegetables, some dairy cattle, hogs, sheep nnd chickens, all go toward making money for tho farmer and if ovory one in the district will follow this policy he cannot possibly pos-sibly lose." Water conditions for tho comiajf more than eight years. The water-season, water-season, it is aut,horitively learned, are better now than they liave bevn for sheds along the ranges to the cast ura packed wi,h snows and the waUr ton-tent ton-tent is unusually heavy. In the big ravines ra-vines and gulcher, where winds Miry the snows, ice and snow are packed firmly and from these points of conservation, con-servation, the water will come gradually, grad-ually, supplying tho fields with ample water for growing farm products. |