Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-04-11 | Page 5 | Good for Beet Crop

GOOD FOR BEET CROP Storm Greatly Raised the Spirits of S Utah County Formers One of the Immediate good effects of the late storm was reported by Manager Man-ager T R Cutler of the Utah Sugar company yesterday Owing to the limited I lim-ited capacity of the Ixshl plant In the i te capacty past bet rwen were given to understand i un-derstand that the factory could only l1e expected to buy a certain quantity I I of beets and the comparative drought that hud prevatlwl until the recent snow and the rain descended had made Rome people dublaun a to whether I V i I Admt WUM worth whll to plant any seed at all Sine1 this storm however Manner I 1 ileen lxr ICRe l Kvr Cutler stys he hu n tIpPl with application tcom beetgrownr who dIN to IncniKii their acreage I Instead of diminishing It To all of V there Manager Cutler fans replied that they mlcht o ahead and plant nil the acreap1 they t lei lnd as whelm the rC twArks I were completed they w ulj Lk a capacity of 1000 tons per day and tho 1 prospects were now of the best The answer of the manager was received with considerable satisfaction by the beetgrowers and as a result the acreage acre-age this year will bo at least double that of any year In the history of beet culture In Utah which has yielded us I good returns as any State In the Union and whose record Is I far in advance of that of various others Mr Culler 1 says that the farmers arc now getting down tu business and that he proposes V to encourage them nil he can consistent consist-ent with the Idea that nil the beets they can raise will be bought at tho market value I While the sugar war now on in the I East between the Ilavomeyors and the Arbucklcs Is being watched with considerable con-siderable Interest by sugar men here they say that unless more drastic measures arc adopted than any thnt have ever yet been employed there Is no reason to believe that the fight will have any effect upon the Utah market the morning T not only found the tree all right but discovered freshly grown I apples of an Inch In diameter dangling all over the tree