Show l British Consul Wyndham has been studying the sugar beet question and has made a report which has Just reached the Treasury Bureau of Statistics I Statis-tics He thinks the United States will I be uble very soon rom Its sugar beets to supply enough sugar to stop the exportation ex-portation of 100000000 that goes abroad now for sugar In the Chicago t consular district there are four factories fac-tories In the State of Illinois three I three in Nebraska and three in Colorado i Colo-rado Those of Nebraska are not yet completed When they are they will employ thousands of hands The I I worlds production and consumption I of sugar is now about 8250000 tons per I annum twothirds of which Is produced I pro-duced from beets and only onethird from cane while the normal consumption j consump-tion Is estimated a Increasing at the Irate I-rate of 250000 tons yearly The factory J fac-tory at Rocky Ford Cob has cost r I 1000000 to build and equip I will i be ready for the brop next year The farmers In the vicinity have contracted con-tracted to grow SOOO acres of beets a I year for five years Their beets yield j i 15 to IS per cent of sugar The factory I when running will consume dally 1000 I tons of beets which It will convert into I In-to about 100 tons of refined sugar of the highest purity At Sugar City a farm of about 12000 acres has been cultivated vated for raising beets and a factory to handle 500 tons every twentyfour hours has been built On that farm 1000 men and women have been employed em-ployed during the summer These beets average about 12 per cent We have not tho figures but we believe I be-lieve the factory at Lchi exceeds In product any of thoso spoken of In the report upon which so much stress is laid We believe further that the soil and climate of Utah are vastly superior superi-or for the making of beet sugar to any region In the East More on what is the belief founded that the United States will soon make its own sugar if the increase is 25000 tons annually |