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Show to pay from $100,000 to $125,000 for beets this year. . A LOOK AT THE WOHKS. The Lehi sugar works is fast becoming a big industry. The plant at Lehi represents over half a million dollars in value. Few. people are aware that there is but one larger beet-sugar works in the United States than the one at Lehi. The works at Chino, Cal., may be said to be lararer than the one in Utah valley. The former extracts the su-cose su-cose from the beets by the German process, with German-manufactured machinery, while the latter is supplied with American-made American-made machinery, which is said to be as good, if not better than the foreign product, and is much cheaper, as there is no tariff on the home-made machinery. Two hundred and fifty men are employed at the Lehi sugar works proper and fifty are employed outside. The company will pay out for wages between now and Christinas the hahdsome sura of $47,000. Three thousand tons of coal and 3000 tons of lime-rock are annually used by the company. The company com-pany makes its own electricity for the 200 lights which keep the works in perpetual day during the four months' run. A 250-horse power engine 'furnishes the motive power for the bewildering bewil-dering labyrinth of machinery which fills the building. Seven tanks of 100,000 gallons capacity each receive the syrup, which is gradually changed to sugar. There are 130.000 pounds of sugar now in process of manufacture from last year's beet crop. The sugar company last year drew a bounty from the jrovernment of two cents a pound on 1,100,000 pounds of sugar. The company expects this year to receive bounty on double that amount. "Our crops and our ; analyzation warrant us In saying so," said Mr. Cutler. "There is a larger amount of sucose, or sugar, in the beets this year than last, and besides last year was an 'off' year in every way." "In case the government should take off the bounty ou suirar," said the reporter, "in what manner would it aifect you?" IMPORTANCE OF THE BOUNTY. "It would affect us materially in fact, it would close us down. I don't think the company com-pany would have the heart to ero on with it. UTAH YALLEY BEETS MOKE PROFITABLE THAN WHEAT BY $20 AN ACRE. Hfotes of a Correspondent's Trip Through the iieet-Kaasins Section The Lehi Factory will Pay to Farmers This Vear the If anlaom Kum of SIS 5.4KK5 A TalU with the Manager The Effects of the Sugar Su-gar Jiounty. On the first of September the ten big furnaces of the sugar works at Lehi will be started for a four months' run, and night and day the tall chimneys will fill the air with smoke, until the year's beet crop has undergone the process which transforms the vegetable into sugar. . . THE CROP OF BEETS TH13 TEAR is the largest ever grown in Utah. Fully three times the amount of beets, as compared com-pared with last year's supply, will be used by the sugar works. The sugar company have 500 acres in beets this season, when last season they had but 200 acres; next year the company will put out 1000 acres in beets, and will gradually increase their acreage until their yearly minimum acreage acre-age is 2000 acres. This year's beet cron, for use at the sugar works, lias been grown under the supervision super-vision of the sugar works company. This la done in order that a better grade of beets may be grown, and because it obviates the company ana! zing the crop of each farmer before fixing a price for the vege-. vege-. tables. Beets grown under direction of the company sell for $5 a ton at the works. PROFIT IN BEET-KAISINO. "It pays to raiso beets," said Thomas R. Cutler, manager of the Lehi sugar works, to a Times reporter. "Take for instance, a piece of ground and sow it in wheat. Say it produces thirty bushels to the acre; at the best figures it may bring 30 cents a bushel that is $22.50 an acre. It costs the farmer $12.50 for seed, cultivation, etc., leaving him a net profit of $10. In fact, he In a new country there are many thing3 to militate against a new industry such as this. In a few years we might be able to make sugar at a profit, but we cannot now. If the bounty were taken off a tariff would be put on. The consumer now pays 2- cents less than under the old tariff system. The people are paying less for sujrar today in the United States than ever before." ' "If the bounty were taken off and the tariff put on, who would be the gainer, or of what benefit would it be to the consumer?" con-sumer?" "It would be of no benefit to the consumer. con-sumer. The manufacturer might make it, but that is doubtful. It would open the floodtrates to combines, and the large manufactures man-ufactures would virtually sweep the smaller ones off the face of the earth." There is little waste in the sugar beet. The puip makes the finest kind of food for fattening purposes for live stock, which is sold to tne farmer for $1 a ton, while the waste is an excellent fertilizer, which is given to the farmer by the company. does well if he gets that much on some land. "On the other hand, take beets. On the same laud the farmer will raise fifteen tons of beets, which he sells at 50 a ton, or $75 per acre. It cost the farmer $15 per acre for seed, labor, etc., leaving him a net profit of $.'j'0 per aire for his beets as against $10 for his wheat. He can do that every year. It requires less water to cultivate beets than it does anything else. The farmer won't need water at all, probably, till the first of May for his bests, and besides they can be grown on land which will not raise wheat at ail. This has been demonstrated." "What effect does the alkali m the land hav upon the beets?" asked the reporter. 'Well," said Mr. Cuth r, "it depends upon the amount of a kali there is in the soil. Unless there is a l:rre amount o alkali in tiie ground it will not injure the beets in the least. The beets will EXTRACT THE ALKALI. Another great benefit of beet-raising is in regards t.i the rotation of crops. Rotation of crops where beets have been grown is not uccess:iry for several years. They do not impoverish the land as does wheat and other cereals and when crops are rotated the lard which h is been used for beel-raising will ra ;;e anything else. A number of farmers put out wlie.it this season on land which grew be.'ts last year and got the most excellent results." The importance of the Lehi sugar mill, tri the fanners especially. i best understood when it ii known tint 5l),000 were paid out for beets l;r;t year. The company expect |
