Show colorado a Com peor colorado has as good soil for beet raising as utah end it has a state government that proposes encouraging the sugar beet utah was first in the field in the production of beet sugar aud should now have n number of factories supplying the inter region at least with if we had not been burdened with a democratic governor boasting of his power to prevent the people from encouraging the sugar industry by his veto we might today have biad other factories facto still it is pleasing to seo the inter est colorado is taking in the beet sugar industry the bounty it proposes giving to those pro sugar from beets grawn by the farmers of colorado will encourage capital to erect some factories within the borders of our neighboring state jast as the bounty worked hero in atah and when once the colorado farmers find the profit there is m beet culture they will not be satisfied until a number of factories arc erected in utah we have some counties where the last years crops have no yet been moved wheat has been down to per bushel with high freight rates also against the farmers last seasons crops therefore remain unsold farmers say they will have to raise some other crop and sugar beets would gladly be taken up if we but had another beet factory or two in the form of sugar beets the crops of he utah farmers are put in cuch a condition as to overcome high freight rates our farmer can compete in that line with cheap farming jn other sections of the country irrigation instead of being an expensive hm derance to competition ath farms where no irrigation is needed becomes a decided advantage in beet culture our soil also seems well adapted to beets all we need now are about three more factories we ought to have one in levior county one in saolele county and one in cache county so many factories running at full capacity would mean the production of about clifteen million pounds of sugar annually an amount not so easily overcome by the sugar trust if colorado does not capture the beet sugar field utah will when statehood comes and we have no governor to discourage home industries |