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Show vvif Sugar Beet Crop Good This 101st Season Of Industry In B.E. County Yield Of 16 Tons " Contributes Much To Bex Elder Aoricultural Economy PEACH DAYS EDITION BOX ELDER NEWS Brigham City, Utah Wednesday, September 10. v 1 r 1952 Physical Failure. Blamed For Most Car Deaths ! It was 40 years before their ef- the beet is credited with contribforts brought results. Not until uting valuably to soil fertility A com CHICAGO (UP) the 1890s, four decades later, through breaking up lower straNational the by study Mormons establish ta. of did the The leafy tops the plant a 1 , there Council shows that Safety successful beet sugar manufac- either are plowed under as green was something wrong physically turing plant at Lehl. But from fertilizer for growing acreages or with one out of every 18 drivers that extensive effort the West are fed to cattle and sheep perrr.-involved in last years 32,500 fahas profited millions of dollars mitted to roam the harvested ( I tal motor vehicle accidents. s areas. western into 1 economy flowing from what has become an imOne of every nine pedestrians Q Liquids remaining from grankilled by motor vehicles had portant cash crop and has meant ules of sugar from the beets are O some physical defect, the counimproved farming practices and converted into molasses for feed1 T more profitable livestock feeding ing to cattle along with the ficil reported. t oV r S. ft programs. brous pulp which also is a resiDefective eyesight was repottWhen the Garland sugar fac- due of sugar manufacturing. ed of in more than Today there are five sugar the cases, defective hearing In tory was built in 1903, the princaa in total Utah with plants and illness of other cipal crops were grain and alfalpacity of 7,450 tons a day. C'J fa, and the greater income bodily defects in the remainder. increased With mechanization, by the new crop was welcomed by farmers. The original the future for the beet industry is Recently developed top factory was built to handle 800 pergood. has taken mo6t of the back MEET ME AT THE tons of beets a day. As time probreaking labor out of harvesting i gressed it has been modernized the n beets and thinning" ma until today it has a capacity of .T.f - t chines are being developed and 2,000 tons a day. . improved. It receives beets from all over The Garland district factory The Garland Sugar Factory 75 men the year Box Elder county and southern employes . . raised all over Box Elder county and part of Southern which beets , around and the "cam processes sugar Idaho in .Oneida county. Though during FRIDAY EVENING many as 1,000 farms have paign, usually about 80 days Idaho. It now has a capacity of over 2,000 tons a day. beets as a crop, last year there long, it employed about 350 men. SEPTEMBER 12 were 657 farms with beet acre- This industry offers farmers Britain To Revive pheus, W. Va. After processing, U. S. Steel Digs Coal to from to work Malad S. 7500 U. Willard acres. of it to total is a then with Steels age shipped From Mine In Sky" 9:00 P, M. ;i Labor for each acre amounts to supplement their income after Royal Splendor mills in Indiana, Illinois and fall harvest. Ohio. about $100 which means income LONDON full The (UP) PITTSBURGH (UP) The U. S. The sugar company became for farm workers. of royal functions Bri- Steel Corp. has started digging owher of the Bear River canal splendor 'No small amount of persevertain has not seen 6ince before coal from a "mine in the sky. ance, ingenuity, and vision was system early in its history and World War II will return next has it and continually developed EVERY DAY consumed in those early efforts The mine, 2,160 feet above sea year to mark the coronation of toward beet sugar manufacture improved it since until it now Queen Elizabeth II, the corona- level on a mountain near Munin the Utah wilderness, then irrigates 60,000 aces of land. tion joint committee has an- son, Wi Va., now is producing Though putting an actual val- nounced. then 1,000 miles from a railroad. tons of metalluruation on the canal system is A provisional program for cel- gical coal a day and production Under the direction of a Mor impossible, it has a capitol value ebrations mon accompanying the ev- will reach 10,000 tons daily when missionary to England, of more than $3,000,000. ent includes a broadcast by the work is completed. to necessary heavy machinery the project was shipped from The company did a Queen to the Commonwealth imGreat Britain and transported Diver Brings Up , mediately after the coronation job on a towering June 2, two banquets at Buckacross the plains and through Real Treasure mountain in the surface the Rockies by ox cart. 'Beet seed ingham Palace, garden parties, development work for the mine. Y. N. CUP) SCHENECTADY, was shipped from France. receptions and state visits to all More than 1,500,000 cubic yards Arthur McKee of Homestead, of earth and rock were moved Inadequate skill and capital Fla., is a diver with a lease on parts of the kingdom. For the first time since the to make the site accessible by doomed the initial project to 12 miles of under-oceaesreal war there may be a court ball at automobile. failure; but they did not damp- tate. , the palace the evening of June The mine actually is a twin en the enthusiasm of those early McKee, here on a speaking 5. In the following two weeks atMormons. operation with coal being dug Repeated day he hunts and finds said for Matrip, the schedule calls for Her at two levels of the famed Pocatempts, correction of previous sunken treasure. cliff sepresence at the Ascot hontas seam. A ' and accumulated mistakes, ROLLER SKATING DANCING What started out as a hobby jestys the trooping of the color, parates the levels and miners learning by experience finally some years ago has turned out Races, FRIDAY SATURDAY NIGHTS NIGHTS a Covent Garden at a ride on them royal gala led to success. between to be a versatile mine of lost Opera, and various receptions in Call Us For Private Party Reservations Today, sugar beets comprise treasure. McKees five-yea- r lease, London. More than 27 miles of track one of Utahs major cash crops, granted by the State of Florida, Visits by the Queen and the already have been laid at the i contributing to a vital basic in- allows him to pursue his pen- Duke of Edinburgh to Scotland, mine, including 20 in the underdustry and supplying many im- chant for treasure hunting. Wales Northern will and Ireland coal is The workings. ground portant food, beverage, and conEquipped with special diving later in the summer, the shipped to a large blending and 12 Miles North of Brigham City ' fection plants, as well as provid- equipment and a camera which follow said. committee at nearby Al- washing plant more a for sounder, practic- takes pictures under water, Me ing able farming program. And from Kee does his diving off Key Larthose harsh beginnings a cen- go. Location unspecified. So far bis "hobby has proven tury ago, the beet sugar procesmore than interesting. He . dissing was started. bans of silver Besides the direct benefits from covered the sugar beet industry, there which the Smithsonian Instituare many others. There is no tion hailed as one of the really how much astounding discoveries of the way of estimating sugar beets have contributed to year. The institution said the improvement of soil and better markings on the ingots 6how farming and . livestock feeding them to have been mined in programs. The beet plays an im- Africa and a test proved them to portant role in crop rotation. Un- be 99.36 percent pure silver. Other finds include: like shallow rooted plants which ivory exhaust upper soil, the sugar tusks from an old slave ship, beet ijraws its sustenance from coins, such as pieces of eight, an lower levels. Reslstarft to alkali, emerald earring and hundreds sugar beets have made possible of other ancient treasures. the reclamation of much alkali McKee has established the Museum of Sunken Treasure, Inc., land. Because of long roots reaching at Plantation, Fla., to house his down several feet into the soil discoveries. J ? To Acre Expected On County Farms ' Elder countys sugar beet which is usually better than the national average, f to ranges from 13 and 19 tons an acre depending on growing conditions. Box production, one-hal- As Utah moves Into the 101st The sugar beet industry, which year since the first efforts to in- last year brought about $1,600,-00troduce sugar beet processing into the county, started with were made, the outlook in Box efforts by Utah pioneers to recElder county is for a good crop tify their starvation for sweets. 0 . J r -- , i Virrs one-fourt- h one-tent- d ESTABLISHED t t IN 1904 - r1 , The Hansen Variety Store was established back in 1904 . . . the year that the first PEACH DAYS CELEBRATION was held. -- weve been serving the good people of this community for the past 49 years . . . .with the AND thousands of everyday items needed in every CAKE WALK Kl SWIM home. 0 high-grad- Come In And Sec Us e face-liftin- d Peach Days! n t Hansen Variety . ski-hois- t. 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