| Show SPANISH FORK AND SUGAR SPANISH FORK CITY feb 1610 1895 in your issue of feb we find fan an editorial under the heading beading du DD not blunder and as aa said article reflection on the ability good sense and lodgment of the farmers farmere of ot this auction tand and sigo also infers that they are complain log ing without cause and am you have opened your jour columns to all con concerned cernei IL 1 bave thought that the farmen farmer sP side bide of the question should be heard beard I 1 therefore write you a true state ment meat of facts facto connected with beet culture in tills this section borther together ther with abe motives and designs 0 of the people in the southern part of utah county coudry to io regard to home industry in december last baat mayor larsen Li areen of spanish pork fork city at the h of many a mass meeting mee tiniE of the people for the purpose of conald wring tue tae propriety as aa well as a the necee of establishing some ome kind of home industry ind for the of the people of abig section that woula give employment to many who are now idle a great portion of abe time and which would also alao furnish a market for the farmers lar mera products that would be more remunerative than at ai prex ent in that meeting several beveral blanchee bran chee of home industry eug elated and among which wiloh wore were a starch factory a tannery and a ugar sugar factory fao tory the ugar sugar factory or the culture of the ugar stager beet and its if manufacture into sugar augar was wae in the abe judgment ol of abe be people the most moat promising of BU an especially to in section of country which embraces too cities anu towns of Spring springville ville spanish furte fork balem benjamin and lake snore covering an area of about text ten miles square quare A large part ot of this edtion taina lands capable of pro sugar beets beeta of the highest qua quality in ID quile a number of 01 instances the be analysis showing bowing 14 and 16 15 per eona saccharine numerous sites centrally located can be obtained with water power to run one oae or aa more factories without the aid of iteal and with the large amount of the very verj best beet land for beet culture that we have we think that it if a sugar factory can be maintained in any part of utah this section of country certainly certain jy can do so and if sugar can be manufactured at a profit when the manufacturing company pays pay to the railroad companies from 80 to 60 cents per ton freight it can be made at a profit when the greater part pait of this expense la Is saved to too toe farmer or the company after the meeting above referred to had decided to attempt the erection ol of a sugar factory the citizens ol of the adjoining cities and tows were invited t operate cooperate co with us UN in this or some other enterprise which might be determined later we did not have soy any intention or desire to cripple or in any way injure jure the liebi lehi factory nor do we think thai the be establishing of one more factory in utah county would in any way damage the lehi factory as aa it to gen brally understood that said bald factory manufactures not to exceed 26 25 per cent of t the no sugar consumed in utah territory in your article you infer that the ability of the farmer li in at fault and the that it if the farmers had understood their business bua ineas their booth beato would have reached the standard required and would have been accepted and they would not have suffered buffered the losses they did in 1894 permit me mr miltor to dispute thiu this proposition some borne of our beet beat farmers nad dad beets planted in land that cannot be excelled in the territory land abst produces from fifty to en one hundred bushels of grain per acre A note la is handed me from one of the unfortunate beet theet raisers of 1894 which states that 1 in 1898 he be bushels of barley per sore acre on the game land he be planted in beets beeta in 1894 and the beets wre were rejected by tie libbl dugar company we say that the ability of the me farmer is nit alt at fult especially when the farmers state that they exercised the greatest care and as closely as possible followed the instructions ol of the sugar company in the cultivation ol of the tubers and still many of them were unable to dispose of their beets beeta to we the lent lehi sugar co the following propositions we would like answered 1 beets beete were planted in a piece of land in 1898 1893 and were accepted in 1894 beets were planted on the same land cultivated the same and by the same person as in 98 but were reject ed aa five acre field of like land was planted the same day cultivated cultivate a d the same in all respects respect and to all appear a does looked the same yet haaf oi anem t bem were taken and the other hall ha I 1 i rejected by the lehi company 8 3 beets have shown by the tae analysis of the sugar company from 11 to 14 per cent sucrose and 79 per cent purity yet have been rejected 4 beets planted upon land that con takieh such quantities of salt that thai small grains will not grow in it wore were all mong among the first to be accepted by the sugar company 5 6 agato again beets that were raised and cultivated contrary to the instructions of the company were among the first taken now mr editor with stances and conditions conui tons before us some of our people are led to believe that something to is wrong to lo the receiving of best beet by the lehi factory people in the salt lake tribune of december 19 1894 an article appears purporting to be an interview had with manager cutler of the liebl lehi sugar company wherein he be says bays that only six per cent of the contracted beeta beet of spanish pork fork were rejected the facts facto mr editor are that about 40 per cent of the crops of spanish fork and bodda mio min instead of 6 per percent cent were rejected by the sugar company the farmers of these sections thereby suffering a los approximating figr mgr cutler is quoted as saying further that be diu not think that the spanish fork farmers had lost jost more than those of other localities 2 I 1 wish to state that all of the beets planted here were planted under contract with the lehl lehi sugar company if it la is a fact which we dispute that the farm era are of spanish fork did not suffer buffer greater loss lose than their neighbors neigh bora to la there not something in the suggestion that the lehl lehi sugar company contracted for more beets than the factory was capable of into sugar and that spanish fork and benjamim being located at the great est distance from the factory and con ly it would entail greater expense to got get them hem to the factory therefore they were left out in the cold the foregoing being presented to the meeting me ting held bold in the city hall on mondoy feb it was approved dig signed ned W 0 CREIM chairman JOHN secretary JOSEPH FINCH WM J THOMAS JOSHUA beet raisers Baj aers |
