| Show BIG = OUTPUT OF SUfAR II I I No Industry In the State hag how o more satisfactory growth tan the tho three factories beetsugar industry f3c tories at Lchl Ogden and Logan having hav-ing produced 32500000 pounds of sugar an Increase over tho previous year of SO por cent and about 30 per cent of the entiroproductlon since the Inauguration S Inaugu-ration of tho beetsugar Industry In the StateS State-S Of this total tho Utah Sugar factory fac-tory at Lchl produced 18000000 pounds of Bugar consuming 78300 tons of 8ugr S beet being an average yield of 230 pounds or sugar to tho ton of beets Tho production for the year ha been about 12000000 pounds In excess of tho demand for home consumption con-sumption and a a consequence this large surplus of the production will amount to 5COOOOO In addition to furnishing 0 good market to the V farmers for sugar beets and a handsome hand-some revenue to the railroad for I I S 11 carrying charges During the year Utah sugar has been shipped to Wyoming Idaho Montana Mon-tana Kansas Nebraska Iowa air l Missouri The sugar Industry has shown such satisfactory results that arrangements are being made for a largely Increased acreage of beets and other factories and refineries are contemplated V 5 THE LEHI FACTORY V Probably the most widely known sugar magnate In the West is Manager Man-ager TR Cutler of the Utah Sugar company There Is no greater authority S author-ity on beet culture In the arid region than Mr George Austin field superintendent super-intendent for the same company and taking the opinions of experts from v 1 parts of the world no factory In America has turned out a superior grade of sugar to that made by tho Lehl factory during the past season under the superintendence oC James H Gardner with the assistance of M W Jngalls chief engineer Tho company for 1901 which closed December Decem-ber Ifith was a recordbreaker and the most successful one In Its history I is the only plant In America that hog a rapparee system having three cutting cut-ting stations one at Sprlngvllle one at Proo and another at Blngham Junction all connected with the central cen-tral plant by pipelinos from eIghteen to twentytwo miles in length During the past campaign the plant was in operation eight tlayt and sliced 75000 tons of beets Approximately l Approxi-mately 10000 tons were cut at Provo 12000 at Bingham Junction 2GOOO at V Sprlngvllle and the balance of i 30000 were cut at Ldhl These produced IS 500000 pounds of pure white granulated granu-lated sugar I has been shipped away by the trainload yet at the present time there remains stacked the com V panys warehouse at Lehi about 10000 000 pounds During the run in the neighborhood of 2100 bags of sugarS I sugar-S were sacked per day the highest record rec-ord for one day being 2903 bogs of 10 pounds each The Provo substation was built the past season and Is perhaps per-haps the most successful one of the three stations It has alternated in slicing with the Blngham Junction plant the station at Springville and the central station at Lehi having been I I In almost continuous operation Averaging Aver-aging the four plants together they have used upward 1000 tons of beets per day making the plant rank among the biggest factories In the world Quoting Field Superintendent Austin This ha been one of the most successful I suc-cessful years that the farmers have experienced The Lehl farmers have averaged over thirteen tons per acre which gives them over 560 per acre At gye the yield was upward of fifteen tons per acre the whole crop of nearly C500 acres going about twelve and a half tons per acre In the north end of Sanpete county the crop was very good and was excellent In the south end of Sevler and tho acreage In these localities will be about trebled the coming season Wasatch county made an experiment the past year and so successful was the effort that the farmers in that locality will Increase their acreage to 300 acres V While the contracts provided for the folowing specifications 1 per cent sugar su-gar SO per cent purity 176 13 percent per-cent sugar 80 per cent purity 460 12 per cent sugar SO per cent purity 5125 yet nearly all of the beets came up to I the highest standard for which the farmers received at the different plants Sl75 per ton making in all over 375 000 paid to the farmers for beets Truly the beet proposition has been appropriately termed the mortgage lifter Add to this Immense amount paid for labor In the factory and the total Is startling Lehl alone received over 5100000 during Ihe past season for beets and labor During the coming season a few minor Improvements will be made In 1 the factory at Lchl and the capacity V will be Increased from 1000 tons per day to 1200 tons and this too without necessitating the Increase of the work Ing force The acreage during the past season was about 6500 acres and will be increased in-creased to over 10000 acres for the coming year The distribution will be about as follows w1 Utah county GOOO acres Salt Lako county 1500 acres Sanpete and Sevler counties 1200 acres Wasatch county V 200 acres Box Elder county 1000 ares These figures Mr Austin says may be jncrcascd at any rate should they te average twelve and onehalf tons per V acie the yield will be 125000 tons of beets or about 23000000 pounds of sugar sugr The coming season will witness much activity by the Utah Sugar company V com-pany in tho Bear River valley A Is Avell known this company during the I V past season purchased the great Bear River canal the finest irrigation sys tem in i the world and 30000 acres of land about 12000 acres of which Is I I adapted to farming pui poses Hon S Moblah Evans was made manager and has been getting the mammoth etlng proposition propo-sition Into shape with the ultimate end of having a modern and mammoth sugar factory located In this the moat Ideal valley in the State Improvements ImJow ments have been made on the west side canal so that whereas 18000 acres were V irrigated the past seasbn over 25000 acres will be under Irrigation during the c mint qcaspn Since July during I I had loO men at work on the past side canal finishing the rock work 1n the canyon and completing some unfin I V ished contracts lower down The company com-pany has a proposition under consideration consid-eration by the farmers of Blngham lnghm City which will In all probability be accepted and will bring under Irrigation Irriga-tion thousands of additional acres of acrs the best land In Utah V S Contracting for V acttig beets has already been cornulencol 1 In this aley already I V 1000 acres will bo raised the coming sea on for the Utah Sugar company and shipped to the factory at Lchl Six flur1nci Mwl be planted by the company Itself The other 400 acres will be raised by the farmers This Is simply as in education for Hie eucaton faimcuH who will thp next year be called on for an of S caled acreage from 5000 to SOOO acres for before The Tribune issues its next New Years number the S erection or a magnificent modern sugar factory w1 have been commenced 61gar Already the company luis had a nun ber of house stable blacksmith mlh chops etc erected jand several hun dreds 4of jicres of land ploughed ready for needing The farmers upon whom all success primarily depends are ta king hold of the proposition with much kng earnestness and tho difficulty experienced experi-enced Is In restricting them on th acreage desired Ultimately thecom pany will here locate Its 500acrc beet seed farm Two hundred and fifty tons of motherbeets haVo this year been Stored for replanting next spring They will plant 100 acres part of which will bo In Lehl and part In the Bear River valley The Sugar companys experiments V experi-ments with tho growing of beet sced has been so satisfactory that In the future tho acreage will be gradually Increased and this branch will be made n distinctive feature and it Is confi denllally hoped that the thousands of I dentall dollars now being sent to Europe for seed home will Ina few years bo kept at S OGDEN FACTORY Paramount to all Industries at the Junction City Is that of tho Ogden Sugar company which is closing the most successful run In its history There have been 12000 tons of beets received at the factory for which the company paid the farmers of Weber S and adjoining counties 200000 To convert these into sugar requires a fOlce of 150 men who are paid 8000 monthly I So far 30000 tons of beets have been converted into sugar and it is expected that the run will be completed com-pleted by January 15th when 5000000 pounds of sugar will have been turned out During the year the company has expended In repairs about 510000 and has consumed daily sixty tons of coal twenty tons of lime rock two tons of coke besides sulphur tallow oils acids soda tc About 40000 tons of pulp were produced THE LOGAN FACTORY For many years the farmers of Cache valley hoped and strove for the establishment here of a sugar factory but not until tho present year were their wishes rtaJIred and among those who most Insistently urged the building build-ing up of such an Industry thero Is scarcely one who anticipated the radical radi-cal change In conditions that havo followed fol-lowed the erection of the Logan sugar factory For the first time in years hired help has been at a premium In Cache and the plaint of hard times has not been heard from tho farmers this fali True times have ben generally pros perous but In an agricultural community commu-nity such a Cache the effect of the general conditions prevalent would of necessity make itself felt slowly instead in-stead however Cache has leaped from a period of stagnation Into one of activity ac-tivity and progression at one bound The value of farm acreage for Instance In-stance affords D striking illustration of the change wrought Farm property proper-ty with water right attached that was on the market a year ago at from 30 ag to 50 per acre Is now b lng transferred at tom GO to 90 per aero and the limit has not yet been reached A farmer near Logan offered a five acre tract of land for sale in February Febru-ary of this year at 45 dollars per acre or 225 for the piece He failed to find a purchaser and planted It with beets He harvested 318 worth of tubers from tho land and now wants 95 an acre for It The construction of the factory was commenced in May 1901 and the machinery ma-chinery was started for the first time on November 12th nearly a month later than the time the promoters do sired to begin work but tho delay wa unavoidable owing to the great steel strike which made It Impossible to secure the structural steel on time I Is situated in Providence precinct about two miles southwest of Logan on a 100acro tract of land donated to tho promoters of the enterprise by citizens citi-zens of the county TIe company owning it the Logan Sugar company was Incorporated within the last thirty days and la capitalized at 500000 David Ecclea of Ogden Is Osen the chief I figure In the company owning a large proportion of the stock although C W Nibley of this city and Taylor Rom ney and Armstrong of Salt Lakes 1 ore also heavy stockholders while numerous numer-ous others are Interested financially in the enterprise The plant Is of the most Improved kind and has a capacity of 350 tons each tWnt tour hours In building buiding I provision was made for doubling this capacity and all Indications point to this increase being necessary next year Contracts were made this year for about 2800 acres of beets but a heavy windstorm In May destroyed several hundred acres and on account of the delay In receiving the beets this fall mans farmers disposed of their crops to sheep and cattlemen About 26000 tons oC beets bots were received re-ceived at the factory which Indicates an average yield per acre of about twelve tons V Some farmers had as high a yield as thirty tons to the acre on small tracts Mr Henry Hancey of Hyde Park probably prob-ably achieved the best results He had twenty acres sown an he harvested V 412 tons of bepta about twenty and onehalf tons to the acre The beets average in purity about S4 per cent and in saccharine mailer about 15 percent per-cent None have been rejected on account ac-count of falling beneath the required percentages of purity and sugar contents con-tents The work at tho factory Is progressIng progress-Ing under somewhat difficult circumstances circum-stances owing to the lateness of the season compelling the starting of the mill before it was thoroughly finished but the factor pope say that they will have ground up all the beets by February 15th of next year The sugar output Is figured at between 5000000 and 0000000 pounds Four dollars and twentyJive cents per ton was the price paid for beets of all grades this year but it Is expected that It will be increased next season when it Is predicted 1500 acres of beets will be planted arid a crop of 60000 tons harvested GUNNISOJNT WAISTS FACTORY Several feet of snow has fallen in the mountains which gives encour sves agement to farmers At 0 recent canvass r can-vass for subscriptions of sugarbeet acreage the amount of snow In the mountains later on was made the rule for mentioned amounts of acreage In Sanpeie and Sevler counties the sugarbeet growers are steadily Increasing In-creasing their acreage and bd fair to produce sugar boots pnoujyh In 1002 to sustain a factory of their own and thereby obtain 20 per cent more for their raw product and have flic benefits bene-fits of an extensive enterprise In their own locality V h formers will do their best to induce In-duce capital to make the necessary investment to build up an extensive beetsugar Industry InUJie frulHulnnd l I productive valleys ofSanpelo and So vlcr counties BEES AND HONEY While tho bee Industry in the State has been fairly prosperous tho report V re-port from the couth and south central have been universally encouraging encour-aging Tho snowfall and rainfall wa more abundant and mora evenly distributed dis-tributed than In some other years Thoso condltona In most of the southern south-ern counties a a rule have produced a good honey flow In nearly all localities south of Price And also In the northern part of the State at nearly near-ly all points north of Ogden While In the hitherto great honeypro ducing belt through tho central part of the State from east to west as n rule tho flow has been much less than usual When we consider the Increased In-creased flow In tho north and south possibly the State has produced about as much bco products this season as last year And while a greater portion of the honey has been sold there Is still several carloads of No 1 whito alfalfa honey for sale Some OL the reports from favorable localities In the southern south-ern part of the Stale have been above the average of some other years many hives averaging over 125 pounds While through the central parti of the State between Ogden and Price tho yield ranged all the way from 10 pounds to Tho district which has nothing generally gen-erally been tho best part of the State for 3 money flow will not average half a crop this season In Ulntah county the first partial failure ever reported Is said to bo have been caused by vast numbers of very small Insects secreted In the blossoms of the alfalfa and sweet clover and which la supposed to have devoured the nectar as fast as It was made In the blossoms and the production pro-duction of the Insects In question is supposed to have been partially caused by the hot dry weather While other V causes are given for a partial failure In other localities the principle reason I seens to have been drought coupled with 0 lack of Irrigation water and grasshoppers and In addition to these here In Salt Lake county we have the smelter smoke to content with I we consider the smelter smoke question Hist we find that any quantity oC bops that we may place between the Jordan Jor-dan river and Ninth East street and South of Twelfth South be they few or many they always die off except a few at the foothills at the extreme north end of the valley And If placed near the smelters they always die off Inside of ninety days even In the summer sum-mer season We are not prejudiced against the smelters we realize that they arc a great benefit to the community but the loss to tho agricultural Industries through the I smoke Is of endugh importance im-portance to cause the use of smoke consumers The drought question as far as present pres-ent Indications are concerned bids fall to remedy Itself by the furnishing of a sufllclent supply of Irrigation water The grasshopper question was the most serious of nil to our farmers fruit growers and beekeepers the past a son In parts of Davis Salt Lake Utah and Sanpete counties They eat the leaves 1 buds and enough of the bark to kill many of the fruit trees and In many Instances they eat the crops and lucerne fields bare to the ground Thus through the months of June July and August when there should have been a good honey flow under normal conditions condi-tions the hoes could not get enough to live on V Now the question to be seriously considered Is what can be done to prevent pre-vent a repetition of these disastrous results I Is well known that millions of grasshopper eggs were layed the past season In many parts of the counties coun-ties named and also in some other sections sec-tions of the State Owing to the warm dry weather through the fall many of those eggs hatched out and the hoppers hop-pers have all died off and this may be of material benefit in the spring but where the eggs hatch out In the egg spring In vast numbers a united effort should be made to destroy them and save the trees and crops and we may note that in some localities the past season where the crops wore destroyed de-stroyed if a united vigorous fight had been made some grand results would have been occomplished and It would not have amounted to onethird of the loss that resulted Several improved methods have been published for destroying de-stroying these and other Insect pests We propoe to further investigate the matter at our spring convention V Our beekeepers should use every effort ef-fort to Increase our honeyproducing plants especially by sowing white clover sweet clover and dome or Rocky mountain honey plant By thus Increasing our honcypiodueing plants tho oldtime prosperity of a good honey floow may be the result A MORE PERFECT ORGANIZATION ORGANIZA-TION NEEDED Among the benefits It Is desired to accomplish hs a more perfect organization 1 organi-zation While perhaps the beekeepers are as well oiganiaed as any other agricultural Industry in the State yet we find a great need for improvement for us far as obtaining any real mutual mu-tual benefits for fraternal benets our beekeepers beekeep-ers Is concerned we ure but little better bet-ter than we would be without association associa-tion What we need is n strong centralized cen-tralized State organization one that can make Its force felt How long will Qur beekeepers allow themselves to be forced to the wall by Individuals Our bpekeipPiR should study up this matter this < winter and then romp to the pjirlng convention April 5th with U 11 tlrll nat Ion to pull together for their mutual benefit We should have an exchange or a fraternal Interest In the punbie of supplies and the disposing dis-posing of bee products V BEE ENEMIES Some los has been sustained of Jatc from this cause ofpecially from vasps They kill the bees or so weaken them that tljey are not strong enough to winter By mixing equal parts of honey and vinegar and setting set-ting it out during 3 honey flow the beeR will not bp attracted to it but the wiiwps will and thc greater portion of them can thus bo caught Also the bees will piotpct themselves If places of screen wire are tacked at the entrance en-trance leaving only a half inch entrance en-trance The bees can also be protected from mice which are often very d6 structlvo tobees during the winter by the liberal usa of the wire nailed over every crack or crevlco of tho hive where tho mice arc likely to try to enter en-ter While we believe In Judicious pocking for winter protection tho bees should not be sealed down airtight because tho little air In the hive may becomo damp and foul making the bees too weak to move or to seek their stores and thus they may smother or die of starvation Wo would again urge our bcekepers If they would succeed suc-ceed to try at all times to keep their bees strong E I LOVESY Salt Lako City Utah I FRUIT S This has been n poor fruit season for tho greater portion of Salt Lako county coun-ty In all the central southern and western parts of tho county there has been almost an entire failure of nearly all kinds of fruits Apples have been almost a complete failure owing to late spring frosts Tho few that were grown were of poor quality There are In the county about 75000 apple trees of full bearing age yet we aro supplied from other parts of the State and from California Colorado and other places As to the market for apples the summer sum-mer and fall prices were about a follows fol-lows Poor quality unsprayed from SO cems to 1 per bushel sprayed three to five times 160 175 and 52 per bushel Peaches were n very good crop on the east bench from Sugarhouso to Granite Gran-ite and where properly pruned and thinned out brought a good price on tho market I would urge all peach growers to prune the trees and thin out the peaches when small to Insure a good class for thejmarket also to destroy de-stroy the peachborer Small fruit has been very good on the east bench with 9cen exception of the strawberry which was about three fifths of a crop All kinds of small fruit put on the market in good condition brought a good price The list of prices was Peaches according to quality por case 10 cents lo J 75 Strawberries single 15cup cases 125 Doubles cases 24 cups 3200 and 225 Raspberries per case of 21 pint cups 150 Dewberries and blackberries per case 225 On the subject of the cultivation and care of orchards I would refer all interested in-terested In general fruitgrowing to the instructions given in tho biennial report re-port of the State Board of Horticulture for the years 1S991900 which can be had for the asking from the County Inspector In-spector or from any of the deputies These Instructions should be read carefully care-fully and given a practical application applica-tion ton1so V Jxilso desire to cite to those concerned two illustrations showing the beneficial results to be gained from spraying apple ap-ple trees One Is the case of your humble hum-ble servant and the other of an apple grower living near Herrlman In the southwest part of the county The latter lat-ter Instance was reported by my deputy dep-uty In my own case I sprayed all applo trees three times and part of them four times with Paris green and lime one pound to 200 gallons of water The result re-sult was 50 per cent of good clean marketable apples Both the clean and the wormy apples hurlg well on the tree until ready to harvest late In October In the other case the trees were sprayed four times and the grower harvested 90 per cent frcefrom worms Some of this fair fruit was among the exhibits at the fairThe The late State fair gave a lesson to all fruitgrowers who give heed In proving prov-ing that goOd clean fruit can be raised with care ancl attention to spraying The late apple display from Salt Lake Box Elder Weber Davis Utah Wa satch and other jcounUes was sufficient V to convince the most skeptical that with intelligent spraying we may regain re-gain the posltioa Utah held years ago In the fruit market V JOHN BOYCE V Fruit Tree Inspector SALT The year 1901 has not been marked by any radical changes in the salt situation Prices have been well maintained and the season has been f vcr prosperous one for the manufacturers manu-facturers The Diamond V Salt company com-pany was started during the year and r harvested a small crop of crude salt Mr Thomas Weir also started a salt plapt near Garfleld beach but did not progress sufficiently far to make salt during the season Isaac Sears has bean somewhat of V I factor In the local markets with bolh crudo and refined V salts The old firm of Payne Bills at Syracusc was succeeded early in the season by Chesney Payne the partnership being styled the Independent Inde-pendent Salt company The output of crudo salt at this plant was about 15000 ions Near Honcyvllle Merrill Co are operating a small plant making crude coarse salt from the waters of a sail spring They produced pro-duced iabout 1200 tons The quarries at I Nephl have been Idle during the ycor as well as the refining plant formerly owned by the Nebo Salt company and now owned by the inland In-land Salt company The several 1 quarries quar-ries In SovVer county have been shipping ship-ping during the year their output having been about 500 tons The largest producer and shipper by far has been the Inland Crystal Salt company com-pany The total output 0 crude salt Is estimated at 76000 tons while the irfilps foi the year are estimated at 36flCO JOHF including all grades The ilabor cost of producing this years V output may bo estimated at close to < 0000 while the selling price of tho marketed product may bo estimated as being upward of 250000 V The tales were divided approximate ly aa follows Tons Rene Bolt all grades 17000 Stock Bait crude sacked 6000 Crudo salt In bulk 15000 Mlhcd rock bule COO Total 330CO The Industry enjoys the friendly interest In-terest of the railroads and may be said to be enjoying the trade of all the sections sec-tions to which Salt Lakes geographical geographi-cal position entitles it I GRAIN Wheat This has been a disappointing disappoint-ing crop a a to yield owing to the extreme heat in July and August and it is doubtful if our farmers have raised more than half n crop The yield probably does not exceed two and one half million bushels bush-els Not only has the quantity available avail-able been limited but tho quality has in many cases been Inferior and the berry pinched owing to tho lack of moisture and too rapid manuring This has caused a much larger precentxigo V of the crop to bo used for feed purposes pur-poses than usual leaving the quantity available for human consumption quite a limited Our position as an export State ha retrograded owing to the lack of available avail-able supplies and tho Inferior quality of what did exist Immediately after harvest there was a considerable quantity of wheat sold to go to Colorado and It now appears F lt4 S 1 V r aIPir I W i I I t r1nF R J J L tJ l Sugar Factory at Lehl that our millers would have shown more wisdom to have purchased this wheat and kept It for home consumption consump-tion as we now find that there Is not enough milling wheat to go round and we have been forced to purchase quite extensively from the Stat s of Washington Wash-ington and Oregon In order to keep the mills grinding We also find that the V same conditions condi-tions which prevail In Utah have been common to the points In Idaho which are tributary to Salt Lake City and there they have scarcely more than Is sufficient for their own consumption PricesDuring the first half of the year values ranged In Salt Lake City In carloads from 50 to 60 cents per sixty pounds but since that time there has been a rapid rise In the market and the market al this time of writing closes with an adince of 15 cents to 20 cents per bushel namely from 72 cents to 75 cents per sixty pounds and at which figures tho farmers are to some degree compensated for the tmall production Acreage Owing to the very profitable prof-itable nature of the beet produuioi In Utah and the extension of sugar factories In the different parts of our State the acreage devoted to wheat Is now much smaller than formerly as our agriculturists can engage much more profitably In raising root crops and hay at present figures than in growing wheat This condition cuts both ways for not only are these points not raising wheat but they are large buyers from the northern part of the State and the unprecedented feature this season has been that wheat and flour have actually been shipped from Salt Lake City to Sanpete and Sevier points which have hitherto been large producers OUTLOOK FOR NEXT SEASON The autunxnisown wheat crop has been put Into the ground In good shape and there have been refreshing rains to start the plant favorably but of course much depends whether the proper prop-er coveting of snow will be forthcoming forthcom-ing to keep the plant warm and Induce the roots to lake good hold In the ground OatsThere has been a large yield both in Utah Idaho and Montana but the demand has been equally active Owing to the practical failure of the corn crop in tho Eastern States the call for oats has been extremely urgent ur-gent throughout the whole season and everything at present points to high prices being continued for this article especially as there Is so much railroad work and general teaming in progress both In Utah and the adjoining States Barley The yield of this crop has been normal with good steady demand de-mand Perhaps there has not been quite so much inquiry from outside points for our choice brewing grade hut feed barlpy has been In continual request throughout the season |
