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Show 1UH COUNTY GETS ONLY SUGAR FACTORY BUILT THIS YEAR ' Tho Springville-tMapleton ; Sugar Company's factory, situated about a mile south of Springvllle ta being pushed rapidly to completion, and will be ready for operation in ample time to handle this season's crop f beeta. According to George B. Bush-by, Bush-by, the superintendent 0f construction construc-tion for the sugar company it will be the only new factory erected in the United States this year. Two in the state of Washington and one at Jtig-by, Jtig-by, Idaho,- have been delayed in construction con-struction on account of the lmtfpssl- bility of having orders for machin- A ery filled. ' " . j Mr. Bushby is a veteran sugar t&o j tory man and was with the Dyer Conv I pany which has the contract for the factory, when the Lehi factory, the first in the state, was built by the Dyers. The Dyer Company also has the contract for the SpringvillenMa-, pleton Company, and M. D. Gilman 't Is the company's representative In i charge of the work. Ground was broken for the factory March ilO, and by August 1 all of the machinery will be placed and cover- j ed m; it will then take about one ' month to finish the floors and other parts of the building and by Septem- i 1 ber 15 it is expected all the machin- ery will be tried out and the factory ; ready for operation, and beets will j I probably begin to be delivered, although al-though it is not expected the delivery de-livery will be heavy until about October Oc-tober 1. . i There are a hundred and fifty men employed and the work Is moving j along smoothly although some incon- venienees have bewi caused by some of the experienced workmen being drafted. The factory will have a capacity ca-pacity of 3o(t tons of beets and additions addi-tions can be made, when it becomes nec.'i.fary to handle an increased acreage. The operating facilities will be the best of any factory in the ' country as all the conditions which j experience has shown to be advantages advan-tages will be applied which will tend to reduce operating costs. Water will be piped about a mile from the big hollow in Msplotnn and will be carried to the top" of the factory fac-tory by gravity; 2 OuO.OOO gallons will be required dally. The owners of the factory mainly local people. Jesse Knight aiW prominent Springvtlle and Mapleton men holding the stock. In fact, it is I a beet growers factory, the farmers I who raise the beets being largely in-j in-j tercsted, and through their desire and determination 'to own a factory and the corporation of II. T. Reynolds. i j.M . O. PaeftanI .and other Springvllle-j Springvllle-j bui.:res rani, and later thatcf ' Jesse Knight and apsociafos wa.slfii- " li t.:d with the result that the 'ftfg I enterprise is practically an assured j success. The factory will cost about ! $S0O,t)O0. ' i The fanners expect to have no 1 trouble to supply the factory with ' bets, as much new land in the Ma-; Ma-; pleton district, which will be irrieat-! irrieat-! cd from the Strawberry Valley Reclamation Re-clamation Project Canal is to he brought under cultivation, and lnrge , areas of swamp lands west of S 4- ng- ' j vlllo, will be drained and devoted to I beet culture, in addition to ti e big l acreage around Springviild and j Mapleton on which beets have been i grown for years. |