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Show district reminds us that it was several years after the local factory was built before the beet yield equaled 40,000 tons. Now farmers, by gradually increasing the tonnage, have made a factory of double the present capacity an absolute necessity. This is also a reminder that the beet sugar industry is a great distributor of wealth. The 98,000 tons at $4.50 i ton make a total revenue for the farmers of $441,000. In addition to that large sum, the factory itself distributes, in wages and otherwise, several hundred hun-dred thousand dollars. Perhaps three-quarters of a million will not cover the total amount disbursed in and around Ogden by the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Sugar company. ENLARGING THE SUGAR FACTORY. It is encouraging news which comes from Amalgamated Sugar headquarters. The local factory is to be enlarged this year, in fact, more than doubled in capacity. There were 98,000 tons of beets raised in the Ogden district the past season, of which only 70 per cent can be reduced at the factory in Wilson Lane, making imperative the increasing of the factory which, until within the last year or two, has proved equal to the demands made on it. For a time the sugar people considered the advisability of moving the Le Grande machinery and making the Oregon "plant a part of the Ogden institution; but there has been a change in the plans and now new machinery is to be installed which will give the Ogden factory a capacity of 650 tons a day with the opening of the campaign this fall. Tho extraordinary production of the Ogden district is calling for a campaign of great length in the extracting of the saccharine contents of the beets. Beginning September 11, the factory west of .the city will not cease to keep up its ponderous work of slicing and reducing 350 to 400 tons of beets a day until some time in February, Feb-ruary, or a penod of active sugar making extending over nearly half a year. 3 The laxtre proportions to which sugar making has grown in this |