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Show INCREASE ' ACREAGE " T ' " 'eaaaaaaaaaaMSBBBBlMBBBaeNHBS Wyoming: Men May Raise Sugar Beets in Rich ; , County. . - . I , EVANSTON, Wyo Msy 5.-A 'move-' 'move-' nent in which Charles 'Stone, of .the well-known Evanston banking firm . of North A Stone, George F. Chapman and J. K Chapman, wealthy stockmen of thta city, are tha leading spirits, is on foot to. bring about the cultivation of sugar, beets on- a .ract of one hundred thousand acres of the fertile Bear River valley in Rich county, Utah, and "to ultimately secure the erection, near Woodruff, of a sugar, refinery larger than any in tho West The co-operation in the enterprise of nearly every land-owner along the Bear ' rtver hetween this point and Cokevllle. haa been secured and if tha experiments to be made this year confirm the belief of the parties. Interested, that this region la especially, adapted to the culture of beets, they will contract to plant MOO acres, which will Insure whoever erects the refinery of a sufficient tonnage to Justi-,il operation. Thirty owners of the land that Is best suited for beet raising, among whom are the Bear River Land and Stock com-panv. com-panv. T. G. Wlmer of Bait Lake, the Neponset Land and Livestock company and John W. Dykens. all owning man-, 'thousands' of acres each, have agreed to plant to beeta this year-from one to ten acres for the purpose of ascertaining ex actly what quantity and quality of beets can be produced to the acre. Experiments in' a 'small way-have been conducted for some seasons past by the JJ . Chapman, and the beets grown am, justify experimenting on a larger soak ' - ' . |