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Show DAILY sugar beet UTAH STATE JOURNAL, Tel. INDUSTRY AUGUST SATURDAY, An Tel. dltion of the machinery, KN0TH B. G. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST 244 J Washington Avenue vice paid to the farm-- 1 last year $200,000, of ,eb,r county cla.se. an additional and to laboring Which will pay a like JJ09.000 and this year and from jmount to them not a dollar wa. derived eight industry which 147-- Y ! Important Factor in Utahs Pres ent and Future Development to Farmers. --Ad- 7 1904. 147-- Y History and Growth I 13, NEXT TO THE BIC CLOCK operated by exercised, he can raise eleven tone and unskilled In its tnunipula-- r tlons. coupled with the poor condition rultinf from the Ir.ad- - durin the first and method, employed ,n growing h of BUMr beet growing the the croPi M discouraged the brave was seven duction or ton. six mu-only of per this 1 that pioneers by enterprise " Itltual consent no further effort, were I 'holly I I pro-lilc- MR. KN0TH wishes I of mention. ri ago, deserving I of sugar beet, to which Inference Is had And it 1. worth while ha. been madel ghow what progress I . seven year, when this the pggt iithlsl industry first had its Inception I . atate. 0j cursory review of the history of umy not prove uninterest-- 1 r TThiie generally supposed to be such la by I plant of recent growth means the case. After the fall of I the Ijarbarlans the Roman empire to Bohemia a beet root, containwas not it but elements, lg sacharine oh- until 1747 that a Prussian chemist common beet root, a from talned sugar known to powssing all the properties 1 made In this direction. The UUh Sugar company wa. or- ganlsed In 1889, but It took the most diligent labor on the part of the pro- moters of this company before they I succeeded In raising means sufficient to erect their first factory and to pur- - I I chaw seed for distribution among re- were luctant farmers. Operations commenced, however. In the . fall of 1891, but the first few years were full I to announce that his store has been remodeled, and he is now better prepared than ever to handle the trade his patrons have so generously accorded him. He also appreciates the to sugar beet growers. ln vle" r the fact tha very spring the beets should be Planted as soon a. the land Is dry here the land has been enough. beaten down by storms It should be atlrred up and cultivated in order to keeP moisture in the ground and Insure a better growth of the plants, A n na the fourth leaf haa displayed by them duriug condition of his store while the torn-u- p being remodeled, and feels sure the hearty support given him during that time will good of financial, mechanical and agrlcul-- 1 tural disappointments. During the first two seasons, only about ten thousand bags of sugar were produced of sugar annually. The extraction from .the beet was less than half the cost of man-Mexist In cane sugar In 1801 the first present amount, and the was more than ufacture three times was world the in sugar factory ss as at 1810 In and high present In Silesia, Germany, hullt dormant pe- During the the first one In France was built at the of rlod beet sugar Industry In the can and d0 ln tjmny Instances help this time the beets averaged jjUe the years of 1 take care of this crop during spac-uugbetween United States, of the price per cent sugar and only 1870 and 1887, great financial loss big and thinning In spring and was thirty cents a pound I I the farmers when they have nothing Soon after thla Napoleon laid an came to thoae who had attempted the establishment of this enterprise, and el" to do. There are some advantages embargo on English sugar from the in Interesting to note that not only I which the growers of sugar beets have Indies and the price arsoe to $1.00 per It did the cane sugar Interests attempt that othr farmers do not have. Where pound In France. The first attempt to I to Impress capital with the futility of I farmers are short of money the sugar produce beet sugar In America was ln 18S0, but maintaining beet sugar as a profitable company will aid them by advancing made In Philadelphia I The Investment, but the beet Interests were ttjem money to help them along and a proved to be an utter failure contract for the delivery of beets to first successful factory in this country temporarily wholly sidetracked by the the company la good collateral ln alwas erected ln 1879 at Alavardo, Cal., attempts to extract sugar from other most any bank or mercantile estnb-tw- o Thus here In and as late as 1888 there were only agricultural products. Bailment ln Ogden. atfactories which together produced Utah for a while unsuccessful are at present five sugar fac-thThere sorto were made tempta produce 1.0M tons of sugar that year Between ffhum as a competitor with cane su- - torles ln the state and they are period and up to 1900, thirty-si- x I were erected at a coat of gar. while In California they as slg- - ated at Lehi, Garland, Logan. I West Ogden. The local fac-wand ln January, 1908, It nally failed In an attempt to produce ham and one hundred people, run- tory employs watermelons. estimated that there were forty- - "ugar from between the first of two shifts nlng the In all this be-however, 1 struggle, five factories ln active operation farmer has never been a serious flnan- - September and the first of January. tween the two oceans. It la estimated that while In 1891 The production of beet augar In 1900 clal sufferer. The price to the grower than 1,000 farmers in Utah were less was ton of beet, of $4.35 to $4.75 per was 78.589 tons Our sugar production ln cultivation of this crept a. sold engaged when time a sugar that year of all kinds. Including the established at I 10,000 heads of families In cane product from Hawaii and Porto at $15 per aack ln San Francisco, and present Utah and Idaho are producing the Rico, smmounted to 987,951 tons, leav- - to this date, when augar sells at about one-thithat amount, the price for beet used by the factories under the lng 1.500,000 tons to be Imported from - control of Utah capital. It may also other countries to supply the defle- - beets Is still the same. Thus the agrlof the be stated that only one-thinot of have this cultural crop profits lency needed In this country to meet Is consumed in In Utah raised in sugar decline not the with changed our consumption of an article which only wrhlle the other two-thirlesa than one hundred years ago was the value of sugar, but because of the the state is shipped to Missouri river points, used only for medicinal purposes Be-- 1 Increased quantity now produced per I The a price charged by the sugar com-th- li fore concluding the historical part of acre, the farmer la today reaping Is $5.05 per 100 pounds and the sketch it may be well enough to proportionately greater benefit from pany the freight, state' that the largest beet sugar fac- - the sugar Industry than are the own- - factory pays It may not be amiss o In closing the era factories. of tory ln the world Is situated in the Hon. James Wilson aeore-tn- d what Ten years ago five or ix tons per quote Salinas valley. Monterey county. Cal., I of two agriculture, says about the n tary acre was an average crop? today was built by Claus Spreckles at cost of $2,500,000, and that It covers a or three tlmea that amount const!- - duatry. He says: I It U a certain crop, space of ground 583 by 183 feet and is tutes the average, while a harvest of I It Is a cash crop, with the price flx- five stories high. twenty to thirty tons per acre Is not before planting, ed ln- - an uncommon occurrence. The growth of the sugar-be- et Is a crop which encourages im It America Experts of Europe and duatry In Utah has been phenomenal methods of farm-ag- e as well as the marked increase In acre- - Uaree that the sugar beet acreage of provementa In the all other crops, In 1891 the production the United States la several times ing tonnage. It is a crop which improves the sales of sugar at Lehl was six and six- - greater than of all Europe combined ot oeT er0 tenths tons, while 1901, ten years la- - and that it U a question of a very and market value there is more which In is a It crop to we will be able ter. It has risen to 11.50 tons per acre. abort time when o er P- In 1891 the sugar extracted at Lehl produce sugar cheaper than It Is being money than ln almost any deterloriat which Is a And it crop wa, 110 pounds per ton of beets, which produced ln any beet sugar country In " the va,ue of R farm eM rose In 1901 to 385 pounda In 1889 the world. ' other crop. It as the factory expense" In working a ton Coming down to the Industry n- At this date the sugar beets of beets in Alavardo, Cal., was $0.S7 exists ln Weber county. Its history is en ugar compan while In 1897 it had been reduced to of equal Interest with that heretofore traded for the Og looks very encouraging to the farm-the $2.71 or a decrease of 58 Seven ago. years cursorily given. per cent learned that early that time (1891) not a single su- - year of Its birth In this community, era. they having and cultivating pa auearly planting gar factory had been erected any- - says Job PIngree. one of the best e grow ng n beets the well, In the keeping where within the boundaries of the thorltles on sugar beet growing when then season of the Rocky Mountain territory, and while state, there were planted 2.000 acres early part I and wme efforts had been made In Call- - which produced 15.000 tons of beets. they have got to be good fair slye let 1st, towards September tomla toward establishing the Indus- - In 1902. 4.143 acres produced 42.000 getting can so farmer dig the them 44.ripe get try ln the United States, yet up to the tons; In 1903. 4.088 acre, produced nd him time to plow organization of the Utah Sugar com- - 000 tons, and the estimate for this early, giving season, prepare his land for another Pany nothing but failure had resulted year 1. about the same as last year. In order to do this and prepare for the from these efforts. Even in this state that stated be It here may Right the establishment of a sugar factory reason why a larger acreage has not early digging the beets shou no I I in the first part of the sea-Jowas attempted as. early as 1852 by been planted. Is because farmers are stunted Th" a u farmlng.1 son but kept growing. Taylor, subsequently president of taking more to diversified I be should the Mormon church, who had become With wheat at $1 a bushel and hay at September 1st watering them let and on continued early beets acquainted with the culture $12 per ton. together with highs s chem the will so go tljey rogar beets during hla sojourn In prices for garden truck, auch as straw- get ripe, and sugar the test, purity France. He went to great expenae In berries, asparagus, fruits of various haring There Is credit due "hipping a small plant and necessary I kinds, tomatoes, eta, all of which re-- 1 qualities. I to be farmers generally who are ra hect seed from Europe serosa the quire less attention. It la not Man In sailing vessels to New Or-- 1 wondered at that the farmer will raise beeta for the Ogden Sugar company I for the care they have given the r leans, and thence had It transported a varied crop Instead of confining bMt and thl ea80n 1 blive ',n teams across the Great Amerl- - himself to one. munerate them better than any pre- ean desert to accusAs the fanner haa become Salt City. The I vlous year, X trust each farmer will Plant was partially erected ln what is timed to the culture of sugar beets so govern his crop that are early so hnown as Sugar House ward, near hla results have Increased. It Is easier slt Luke city, and an attempt was now for a farmer to take care of five we can keep this factory running at for Ita full capacity from Its start this blade at producing augar; but It re-- 1 acres of beets than It was to csre "hlted In absolute failure and subse-- 1 three acres seven years sgo. At the season. By so doing 't will save such a rush later In the fall run. Hnent abandonment. The crude con-- 1 same time, owing to the greater care ap-to- ok humor than double for the future. Prompt delivery of all telephone orders be more assured- et - He also wishes to call attention to the ed of his new Lippincott Soda perfection I ar Apparatus. Tel. TiL 147--Y 147--Y at sltu-factorl- es as 50 Per Cent deduction Straw Mats on I Ml rd rd ds This Week Only Z. . M. D. This Week Only t At ESTABLISHED IN 1889 Ogden State Bank of Ogden, Utah H. C BIGELOW, R. A. MOYES, A. P. BIGELOW, cAsst. Cishier. President. Capital . . Surplus and Profits Cishier $100,000 $40,000 . . $1,000,000 Deposits hn V Drafts drawn direct on the principal cities of the United States and Europe. The accounts of Farmers and Stockmen especially invited. Interest paid on Savings Deposits and Time Certificates. We offer consistent liberality; uniform courtesy. . ALBERT F. RICHEY (nhevtaker Phone ISO Open 2372 Wuhlngton Thy end 9Qght. YOULL ALWAYS FIND Beet Eastern Corn-Fe- d or any other good kind at BALLARD & RINCKER. Tel. (53. 8S1 24th Street C. J. A; LAndquist UNDERTAKER EMBALMER and AU . Open Night Ttltfim 2620 Washington An. Ogdon, Utah. BD-X- |