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Show BEET YIELD SEEMS NEARLY 1 AVERAGE Slow Growth Early in Season Is Overcome by Ideal Conditions Con-ditions Later. Special to The Tribune. L.I3I-II, Sept. 13. If present plans do not go amiss the Lohi sugar factory will open Its 1913 campaign on October 1. This dale Is about two weeks later than the season usually opens, but It Is duo to the Immaturostate of tho beet crop. A preliminary pre-liminary sampling was made September 1 and revealed the fact that the beets were unusually green. They arc now ripening nicely and a general sampling of all tho fields will be commenced next Monday. This sampling will determine which beots shall be harvested first. About July 1 the boot crop appeared to bo but B0 per cent of an average. Soon after this date the beets commenced growing moro rapidly and the Held superintendents super-intendents say that the yield will bo about an average, though not so heavy as last year. Though the beets aro two weeks slower in ripening than in former years, if tho present weather continues thero is promise of the sugar content being be-ing up to the normal. Formerly all the beets in Utah county, and somo from other counties, were made into sugar at the Lehl factory. This year the Payson factory will take 30 per cent of Lohl's terrltoryt nnd it Is estimated that the tonnage at the Lehl factory will bo reduced about 20 per cent. A preliminary estimate Is that the Lehl factory will this year cut 110,000 tons of beets, the plant at JElslnore 50,000, anil tho Payson mill 30,00.0. The sampling commencing Monday may chango these figures. - , |