Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-15 | Page 69 | Operations in Ogden

OPERATIONS IN OGDEN lava I Iiii I It Year GrollI Ily By Job Ini Pingree tee Agricultural Superb of the Sugar Co This lun Jun ot of I be th most mOlt sue HUO ot of nn any since Inco the erection ot of tho ho first factory In 1898 The rho raising ot of b bots has been very cry to 10 tile tho arguers this year the Iho conditions having becu most In ninny many harts the farmers ot of water which to Irrigate their crops It Is estimated that thin beets will tho ho farmers about Si 70 to ti lie tho acre WhICh I ts almost double what the yield was In 1905 Thu Tho farmers who had to 10 depend on the railroad to Jot got their beets beetH to the tho factory this year have havo had no end cud ot of trouble Oil on account of at thu th shortage of oC cars It ii greatly delayed tim Iho delivery ot of ho hOI hoc ts te to 10 the factories and this thill together with the Iho Increase crop ill hut the Iho back about n a month ha completIng the seasons ruti so that It will ho about tho lie end enO ot of J 11 ua 1 19 1907 7 all the tho beets beet will have havo been reduced to sugar In some parts paris of oC the tho counties furnishIng beets to 10 the tho Amalgamated Sugar the farmers to 10 dIR their crop when notifIed by tile tho com coin company party pany or of leaving their beats lit In the tho ground a short tinto longer In iii order to Increase thu tho weIght but they left them too long and when the tho sudden Budden frost trost came caine It caught about 00 acres ot of beets In tile tho ground which I In Ia n a heay loss to 10 beet ns as well oil liS as to the Iho factory When tile the Ogden Ogdon sugar t factory was built time nino years ago ngo labor lahar was vas tul ful and moderate wages wore wera paid but It III very er rids year the thi Sugar Ut got gOI hIto men nIen to 10 ot Ih tue holds or 01 to work wort in 10 tho Iho unit ere tu to ship Japanese 11 In to 10 look 1001 the Ih harvesting of at the beets antI hail harl to to wor work In the factories lle rho flie or of beets Is the tho surest crop the farmers cnn can ilant us Is hal Lire certain of oC a market alit the tue mono money for tOI the tho seasons labors As s to the future In Iho be sugar beet In Industry Industry the was clever brighter tanners who have huo hover sugar beets before have expressed a 11 desIre tu to plant nod year The fhe arc that there will bo be more acre age for tor than the tho company cnn can take euro ot of It Is the intention to give glo those who have wIth then each year ar th Ihl I opportunity the coining season eMon to tomake make contracts but the farmers oils ous ot of raisIng beets for tor the tho 1907 1901 run should slim sign Ul tIll early In the Iho year Mr