Show THE mm newspaper saem to lava a morbid desire to ran down new enterprises the silt lake herald 13 a ffoyd of its part yand it repeatedly has bought to show that tho sugar factory at lehi is now no real advantage because capital could find ready investment in other channels it says ayery dollar now invested in the su kar factory was batore invested in coma self supporting enterprise it wal giving employment and paying wages and earning profits every dollar of it the suar factory did not agiya employment to any idle capital whatever in tins country thera is no idle capital etc it is granted that said capital was giving employment but not in the channel that it biow ia the herald for abo farmers and it is a common thing for that paper to deplore their sad condition it knows the situation of tho agriculturalists in utah is extremely bad railroads discriminate disori minate against the iuso they aro almost entirely cut off from the large markets of the country aside from the markets furnished by our mines the farmers have a very limited sale for their produce in fact the mines furnish but a small market compared with the capacity ot j oar marcta for rich yields in almost every class of farm products and under cheso conditions farmosa of utah have been finding their condition steadily growing worse until for some seasons it has boon all a man bould do to raise money for the necessary articles of consumed by hia if Q depended solely on in farm we believe the herald avill agree with us that we hava not been exaggerating ge the caso and we feel sure tho farmer will say that what wo have taid is troth vell under these circumstances somo of thorest th obest men of the territory men who have tho actual welfare of at heart conaulty to gecher apon the necessity of some that would relieve the tanners the moat scheme seemed to bo tho erection cf a sugar factory at agomo centrally located spot it was known anat annually utah people sent out of the territory about a million and a quarter dollars for sugar and it was thought that could some of tho sam be saved for circulation among our fari it donld be a bleating to thorn with this object in yiew men were sent to different parts in the united states to investigate beet culture and the and refining of sugar it finally resulted in bi men of conr midst tak ins money from their own business and putting it in tho sugar factory at abhi something like civo hundred dollers were thus converted from other channels self adf porting anter J arises as the herald suya to aha sagar ia utah and furthermore this same money taken from other channels was alao giving employment but now gitig giving employment in a more beneficial way one seasons run of the sugar fac tory has convinced the farmers that beet raising will prove pr if they go at it in he right way this year t ero will ua tareo thousand aero of beeta raided allowing twenty acres w an average this will give 11 fro n aundre 1 art frt risers a chance of ra g ready ch this fall by meana of for wac the our is well adapted we are safe in thousand acres of beats will ba raised and we aro rather two low if anything in averaging twenty acres i to the farmer for the mot du not go above ten acres though the sugar factory till put in about too hun decd acres according to tho heralda Heral dd awo i statement the bounty gives the plant ors of the south a chance to raise from 60 to 90 per acre and the earne is true regarding dins utah honce it will ba seen that according to the lowest estimate of he herald will be thrown among the far mers for circulation and according to our fifteen fandrel han drel far mois will each be getting cheh which is nearly enough money to pay choir store bills then there soma sense in converting money from other channels all self supporting industries and putting it hi a business eu beneficial to the larmar of utah as the sugar bounty and is the bounty which givey encouragement to beeh s laudable enterprise doing good to the country t we dont suppose the herald will want to soo the point aa plain as TO have tried to isaako it but it may serve to convince our farmers that this pretended democratic sympathy is simply so much wind |