Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-22 | Page 14 | Delta Beet Grower Signs Big Contract

DELTA BET SIGNS BIG CONTRAcT Will Place Thousand Under Cultivation Next Year Others to Follow Farmers In the vicinity of Delta are are preparing to go into the tho beet growing Industry next year on a large scale and as a beginning to make the Delta Ita country one of the tho foremost ing ing- sections of the state B. B D. D Hashimoto Hashi moto yesterday signed a contract with tile the Utah Idaho Sugar company for planting almost 1000 acres of beets dotIng during dot dur ing the year 1917 Mr Hashimoto declared that the ex experiments ex- ex which have been conducted in the tho Delta section shows that the beets grow as large there as in any other section and contain as much couch sugar content Beets have been raised In the Delta country ever since the tho irrigation ir- ir project was completed Efforts Ef forts have havo been made several times Inthe in inthe the pant last to establish a sugar factory at Delta With a factory practically As M Assured for Delta tho thio farmers are arc again ajala turning their Interest to beet groW groW- ing Contracts signed by Mr Hashimoto are the largest entered into b by beet growers of the Delta section rho beets to be raised raided on the ground owned arid and leased by Mr Hashimoto will be shipped over the tho Salt Lake Route to the factories of the Utah Idaho Sugar company corn com pany and will not be sent to the proposed pro posed factory at Delta