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Show AFTER WEALTH IN SUGAR BEETS Wyoming Men Look to Utah. Fertile Lands Along Bear River to Be Culti- , vated. Prospects of Developing Great Industry In-dustry Believed to Be Unusually Un-usually Bright. Special to The Tribune. KVANSTON. Wyo.. May 4 A movement move-ment in which Charles stone, of the well-known Fvanston banking llrui Of North & Btotie, George F Chapman und J. B chapman, wealthy stockmen of this city, are the leading spirits, is on foot to bring about tho cultivation of sugar beets on a tract Of one hundred thousand acres Of the fertile Hear RlvCr valley In Rich county, Utah, and to ultimately secure, the erection, near Woodruff, of a sugar rcllneri larger than any In tho West The co-opcratlon in the enterprise of nearly every land-owner along the Bear river between this point and Cokevllle. has been secured and If tho eXDSrlmentl to be made this year confirm the belief of the parties interested, that this region Is especially adapted to the culture of beets, they will contract to plant 6000 acres, which will Insure whoever erects the refinery of a sufficient tonnage to Justify its operation. Land-Owners Interested. Thirty owners of the land that Is Inst the Bear River I .and and Stock company. com-pany. T G Wlmer of Salt lake, the N ponset Land and Llve-StOCH company and John W, I kens all owning many thousands of acres each, have agreed to plant to beete; this year from one to ton acres for th purpose of a-soertalnlng exactly ex-actly what quantity and iuallty of boots 1 an In- produced to the acre. Experiments In a small way have been conducted for some seasons past by the Messrs chapman, and the beets grown amply Justify experimenting on a larger scale. Prospects Are Good. Mr. Stone. In an Interview with a Tribune Trib-une representative, said: "TIito Is no d-.iibt In my mind hut that the Bear River valley win produce better quality of best than an grown elsewhere In LtsJi I base my belief largely on a recently published report made hv the chemistry division of the Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Ill which It was stalco' that tests made from New York to North Carolina and clear across the continent, covering a period of Ave years, had developed the fat t that e low temperature, not exceeding exceed-ing 7" degrees Fahrenheit during the growing months, June. July anil August, lfl the greatest fartor lu producing beets with sunshine next In Importance, providing. pro-viding. ofcourse, that the soil Is sufficient!' suffi-cient!' rich and there Is a good water supply. Climatic Conditions Favorable "The average temperature of this valley val-ley during those months Is 6S degrees and the days are long and sunny. The noli is as rich as ca.n ne found anywhere, and there Is an abundant supply of water Beets grown In this locality have shown an extremelj hiKh percentage of saccharine sacchar-ine matter and it is for the purpose of learning what uuantltv an acre of ground will produce nrni whether or not ihrv will .lo as well In all parts of the valley, that we propose to undertake these experiment experi-ment 1 Refining Companies Interested Several sugar refining companies, Including In-cluding th.- It.ih Sugar company, have recognised the importance of tin- work aid have off.-r.. i" or.it ft plant if the results show thai beets . n be row 11 sfullv. of n capacity great enough to handle the yield of the entire valley, which has an average width of son mllee and Is about sixty miles long. It lias been staled bv prime movers of tho enterprise that in the event of thi erection erec-tion of a factory, close on to 100,000 i i win be planted to beets, which will mean a production of approximately 1,iXw,i) tons annually. |