Show Sugar ar Factory Seems Probable Medium Size Mill Being Considered for fora a Central Location Means Much to Basin asin Agriculture And General Gener Gener- al Welfare That sugar factory talk just wont won't stop Something real Is sure to develop Certain financially financial financial- ly able agencies are now giving the matter careful attention with the determination to go to the bottom of or the subject subject subject-at at once Here are eighteen points to consider consider con con- sider viz 1 Average Assessed valuation of alfalfa lands 2 Value of each farm unit or acre value of real farm lands 3 Average cost of irrigation per season 4 Comparative yields of sugar beets on lands per our experiments experiments ments 5 5 Amount pf of sugar In fn beets produced 6 Employment b benefit to Indians Indians Indians In In- as well as to to white white peo le 7 What is the probable benefit benefit- to the basin as a a. whole 8 Value of beet beet- pulp for the dairy industry 9 Value of beet tops for fattening fattening fattening fat fat- livestock 10 The residue syrup for use with coarse hay and with milled feeds 11 Opening a lime kiln 12 Use of basin coal 13 Draining of swampy lands making productive soil with cheap drains 14 Provide another means for diversification of crops 15 Resulting increase in land values 16 Betterment of local business conditions that would result 17 Present gross per capita consumption of sugar here 18 Use of electricity from local plants There is some effort being made to interest the government in the matter Because B the Indian water water water wa wa- wa- wa ter rights control the late water for ample irrigation in many districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis a sugar factory will for some time tune have to depend to a large extent on the Indian lands These lands are owned by both white people and the natives but the actual farming would be done to a large extent by the white man mal However by having haying a sugar factory and by employing local i labor b r e even 1 the tle Utes will join es especially especially es- es when nth hey know y-know the pay payday day day Is is once once or or once per month and gradually realize that their lands are becoming more valuable A small sugar factory will pay Truck charges for getting the sugar sugar sugar su su- su- su gar to market the use of the local products here and all the factors given indicate the investment will pay No section of the west needs this boost to real farming as badly badly badly bad bad- ly as this basin Hope to give you more information information I tion next week |