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Show Farmers of Valley Are Strongly Appealed To Urged to Support New Sugar Factory By Increasing Beet Acreage and Boom the Valley. An important meeting of the beet growers, together with some ot the officials of the Gunnison Valley Sugar factory and citizens of Gunnison, was held at the City Hall last Tuesday evening and questions of vital importance im-portance to all concerned was extensively ex-tensively discussed. The meeting was primarily called for the purpose of enthusing the farmers of the Gunnison, Gun-nison, West View, Clarion, Fayette and Axtell districts in raising beets and representatives were present from practically all of the sections adjacent to the Gunnison' factory, and the hall was comfortably filled. E. L. Swalberg, field man for the sugar company, and who acted as chairman of the meeting, made a strong appeal for the support of the farmers in beet raising. He stated that many of the farmers were active and were putting forth every effort to increase their acreages over that of last year. On the other hand, many are not supporting the institution, institu-tion, Mr. Swalberg added, and- the condi f is far from what was offered offer-ed when the builders of the factory made an appeal for acreage. "The factory was built to run," continued Mr. Swalberg, "and it must be supported. sup-ported. It is true that the past year was not the most favorable, but with better education in beet raising, an abundance of water and with the assurance as-surance of handsome returns, the coming season should show a decided increase in acreage." "The Sugar company wants to and will lend every assistance to the farmers of the valley in raising beets," said W. Harvey Ross, president presi-dent of the company. "The factory does not belong to the stockholders, but belongs to the residents cf the valley, as the benefits, for many years to come, will be enjoyed by those who raise the beets, through the distribution of the vast sums of money that will be paid out for beets and wages. Growing beets may not 1 be as nice as raising cereals and hay, ! but experience in other sections has f proven that it is far more remuner-! remuner-! ative. The factory will remain here 1 and it is to be hoped that the farmers farm-ers will soon realize that it is the greatest asset that the valley has and to this end will support it by raising sufficient beets to keep the wheels moving." The company is offering an exceptionally excep-tionally liberal contract for those who will grow beets. Heretofore, and as is the custom of all the factories throughout the state, a charge has been made for the pulp.. Under the new contract the Gunnison Valley Sugar company agrees to give the grower, free of charge, all the pulp coming from the beets supplied by the individual grower. If the grower grow-er desires to sell, the company agrees to purchase the pulp at the prices in vogue in other sections. Another clause in the contract, and one which will prove advantageous to the grower, is the fact that the date for delivery has been advanced five clays. Henry A. Kearns, Joseph Christen-sen Christen-sen and Chris A. Peterson, all prominently prom-inently identified in the growth of the valley and the support cf the sugar factory, gave brief talks and urged the farmers to come to the support of the big industry that has already made the valley famous. |