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Show CLAWSOM IS CHAMPION IN SUCAR BEET ACREAGE The little town of Clawson always neof the foremost places in the county to boost for anytning for the general .ood of the county is again to the front, this time in support of the big campaign to secure enough sugar beet acreage for the year 1917-18 19 to justify justi-fy the construction of a railroad through the county to the town of Emery, and a sugar factory somewhere in Emery or urbon counties. Clawson now has 136 jcres of beets signed up for and there 4re at least thirty more acres that are ,ure of being secured. Furthermore, iomeof the leading men of Clawson ire willing to double or triple their acreage ac-reage but what the proposition goes ihrough. This is. the heaviest acreage in proportion to population yet signed in the county. The Clawson meeting was held last Saturday evening. On Tuesday night a fairly well at. tended meeting was held at Ferron and nearly two hundred acres were signed op at the meeting. Another meeting was held at Victor Wednesday night and sixty acres were iineJ up nocwithstanding the fact that some of the heaviest prospective signers sign-ers were not present. Another meeting was scheduled for Orangeville last night and tonight (Saturday) (Sat-urday) members of the committee will a tend a big meeting in Wellington. Meetings are scheduled for next week ss follows: Enery, Sunday evening, at 6 o'clock. Cleveland, Mjnday evening at 8 o'clock. Huntington, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. It is the second time the committee has met with the people of some of tr.ese places but this action seems to t necessary in order to get every man in the connty. Every man and women who is interest inter-est in seeing a railroad come into the cinty should be present at these meet-i'?3. meet-i'?3. The members of the committee are working as hard as they can to oring this big boon to the people of Enery county but they can do little without the active support of every J ran, woman, and child in the -.ounty none excepted. Some of our readers seem to have overlooked, in reading over the table 'e published last week relative to the cost of an acre of beets, the fact, that -l out $2.75 of the total figure arrived is for labor that will be done by the man and a couple of boys or girls in almost al-most every case where less than nif teen acres are planted, with all work figured at good wages. Furthermore, the very lowest possible yield per acre was taken for the example given, while we are certain that Emery county land is go ng to go heavy both in tonnage and saccharine sac-charine content. Utah county land Jitldsfcs high as thirty tons to the acre .d we have land that is exery bit as 8 -d, and, at the same time, have the ate water that many beet sections lack. One encouraging feature of the meet, held the past week is the fact thac 0'lv in one or two instances have any fithe signers gone djwn for less than f"e acres. There isn't a man in the county that can't handle five acres of t,eeta whether he has a child or not. a nd lf he hasn't the land, we Delieve some 0i the real live men in each community "ill be more than glad to let them have a few acres of land for the good done the land for the good done the land by three years of beet culture, and for th e tekeof the railroad and factory. In act, the man who signs up for ten, tenty or thirty acres of beets will :"ake more per acre off his beets than man who signs up for only two or lhree acres, for the simple reason that le e-in secure all labor he may want to se at a belter figure than for a small Patch. some of the members of the commit-lce. commit-lce. acconpanied by some of the real live Fosters of the proposition, are going "most every night, and, though the , "He and expense of all these trips is I'-'te an item, the spirit manifested in """e of the communities and the engagement en-gagement received in most places, ullv compensates them for making the eertion. The thing is to b gain ; put '"rough if human exertion can do the 'unt. |