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Show Sugar Campaign Starts Full Blast With orders issued for beet digging and with the firing of the boilerp at the Gunnison Sugar company's big plunt at Centerfield, the valley has taken on a big movement in agricultural agricul-tural activities after a lapse of a year. Never in the history of the local factory has the outlook been so bright as it does today, and with the beets rolling in by the tons each day and with the mill grinding steadily, the valley will be a mighty busy place' for the next sixty or ninety days. The storm which broke forth last week retarded somewhat the operations opera-tions in the fields. However, with tha delay the growers will be the gainer as some of the fields have not as yet reached the highest point of sugar content. Some of the growers have been advised to delay digging for the-reason the-reason that the beets are not sufficiently suffi-ciently ripe for digging. By the middle mid-dle of the coming week orders will be given to go ahead. The beets were never better and some of the fields are yielding at the rate of 23 tons per acre, while several patches pre averaging all the way from 17 to 20 tons. The big factory was started last Saturday afternoon. With all machinery machin-ery working fine and with an organization organiz-ation that is perfect Superintendent Howard is highly elated and he expects ex-pects a record performance during the present campaign. The mill is grinding grind-ing an average of about 775 tons a day and it will soon be increased to 800, and this average will be maintained main-tained during the campaign. |