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Show Two Hundred Thousand Dollars in Beet Money Gunnison Sugar Company Will Mail Checks for October Deliveries SaturdayBeets Satur-dayBeets Show Record Sugar Content Con-tent and Bonuses Seem Assured. licet growers for the Gunnison Sonar company, who have fought a battle during the past two years due to ci op losses, which no one had power to prevent, will wear a smile of happiness and contentment with tin; announcomciif., of the first distribution dis-tribution of checks for the 1!)27 crop. Advices wife received fiom Salt Lak,'.- headquarters late Tuesday Tues-day evening that 8200,000 would be distributed mong the growers and that, the checks would be sent out from Sal: Lake Saturday. In keeping keep-ing with the precedent set by the company several years ago, the checks re being sent out ten days in advance of the usual time. The checks, which will arrive here Sunday, Sun-day, will be in payment for the beet deliveries during October. The above information will not on'y prove highly agreeable, but the company has another surprise in store for the growers. Heretofore, November beet deliveries were not laid for until about the middle of Di comber, and the announcement is now made that just as soon as the Novomh-r deliveries are made, chicks will he immediately forwarded forward-ed to the growers, the Gunnison Su;car company again setting an example ex-ample unknown to other companies of the state. , A gratifying condition prevailing during the present cantpaign of sucar makirg is the presence of the suror content. The average center.: this year .is running better than 17 per cent, and with this condition, con-dition, wiU undoubtedly warrant additional ad-ditional payments if the price of I sugar remains stable, and there is I every indication that it will. Better ! than $8.00 per ton beets seems a I possibility for the growers in Cue I district. j Digging has progressed better t' is ' vear than ever before, and up to r i ; storm the first of the week be u were piling into the mill faster ti. :u ' beefs are handled with very litt'ie ; work. Approximately S100.000 was expended in adding the receiv:.-,-,- stations. While the growers, have been hie hard in two successive seasons, there is much confidence in beet growing, as it is the only cash crop that can be successfully carried out. and next year a larger acreage is looked for. ever before. With the improvement in weather conditions digging was resumed again this morning and if favorable weather continues it w'U be but short period until all of the ' crop is up and redy foar transpor-: transpor-: tation to the factory. Some twelve thousand tons remain to be dug and j topped. In the vicinity of Gunnison : and Salina harves-'ing is nearly ceni- pleted. Never in the h'story of the factory has better conditions prevailed. With a fine oreanization mcbolized hy Superintendent Hart J. Sanders, every ev-ery department is working "in trne" and an average of 800 tons of bee s pass through the mill daily. Another feature, and one whi-h aids in handling the harvest ouicVdv and judiciously, are the new receiving stations placed in Sanpete and Sevier counties. These automatic loa,!es and pilers are proving a bom to h'h the company and the grower an 1 all |