Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-22 | Page 9 | Malad to have Sugar Factory

MALAD TO HAVE SUGAR FACTORY! MALAD. Idaho, Jan. 21. Judging from j the enthusiastic meeting held in the I courthouse Inst week, a sugar factory in ; this valley is assured. The meeting was j attended by a representative body of j farmers of the valley, all of whom are I anxious to have a factory established j here. James P. Sprunt, trustee of the , financiers, explained that if the farmers j of Malad valley were prepared to siun contracts to grow 6O0O acres of beets for a period of seven years the company I would build a factory of 500 tons daily j capacitv and have it in operation tor the crop of 191$. All details pertaining to the factory were discussed, and Mr. Goodwin, one of the promoters, said that if the Oregon Short Line railway would not build a spur across the valley the suuar company 1 would do so, provided the farmers would furnish the right of way. Committees were appointed throughout the valley to solicit acreage, and from reports made here today it Looks as though, within the near future, Malad valley will have a sugar factory.