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Show Importance of Beet Growing Impressed By Eminent Speakers Throughout the district covered by the Gunnison Suagr company, com-pany, during the past ten days, meetings have been held, eminent speakers have set forth in forcible addresses, the importance of encouraging en-couraging the support of the Gunnison Sugar factory located at Centerfield. At each of these meetings hundreds of farmers and beet growers have packed the halls to overflowing and ordinarily the sepeakers have met with overwhelming enthusiasm. The point most strongly stressed is the importance of supporting the local factory to the extent that it be given a full campaign, something the factory officials have not enjoyed during the seven years of its existance. And in the addresses some decidedly strong points have been brought out why the full campaign should be forthcoming. The sugar company, it is conservatively estimated, has invested some million dollars or more in establishing an industry that cannot can-not be computed in dollars and cents, from a monetary standpoint. And from a standpoint of taxes and a distributor of money, its value is far reaching. In addition to distributing nearly $150,000 in wages, annually more than half a million dollars is paid out for beets. Does this vast amount of money bring any good? Does it afford better schools and churches? Has it enriched our valleys and does it not create more business with the merchants, the banks and the general business? Do the beet growers realize that industries in-dustries like the sugar factory is one of the best assets to aid in building a community, that it brings in homeseekers, creates more business and is the direct cause of putting into circulation thousands of dollars? And does the farmer and beet grower realize that a company cannot afford to invest more than a million dollars in an institution and let it lay in idleness? Capitalists cannot afford and will not allow money to stagnate stag-nate and lay in idleness. The policy would be ruination. Then why try to throttle the big industry. It has been pointed out that within the past few years three sugar factories in the state have been compelled, com-pelled, through lack of loyal support to close down. In these communities com-munities land values have decreased nearly 50 per cent. Farms have been abandoned and the loss of the factories have been keenly felt. Mercantile instituitions have been forced to close and the population pop-ulation has materially diminished. Why? Because of lack of support sup-port of a big industry that distributed thousands of dollars annually in the several communities. On the other hand. Everyone knows the calamity that befell be-fell the farmers throughout the United States last year, when drouth and climatic conditions wrought havoc to all crops. Thi district covered by the Gunnison Sugar company, was no exception, although this section fared better than many other sections. It was a hard blow and not only the beet growers felt it, but all' classes of business suffered equally. These conditions that prevailed last season, fortunately, only come every fifteen or twenty years at least that has been the history. History also! proves that following drouth and crop failures, "bumper" harvests come, thus enabling a farmer to retrive his losses and make a gain. It is disasterous that crop failure comes, because the farmer feels the losses more than anyone. Business failures come daily throughout the land, business generally, goes on just the same. When the farmer sustains a loss, every industry is more or less effected, and so to speak, the farmer is the back bone of the country and it is up to him to make the business. But should one failure or two failures, make him give up? The old saying, "He Can Who Thinks He Can," is a, mighty good pill to swallow just now. Never in the history of Southern Utah, has the prospects been any brighter than right at the present time for the success of the farmer and beet grower. Never has the chances been better and brighter for a "real bumper crop." Get the idea in your head and keep it there the factory must be supported sup-ported as it supplies you with money, it betters;1 your schools and churches, it supports your merchantile institutions, it it the causa of circulating thousands of dollars annually through your valleys, it helps pay your taxes and is the one big industry thati is an, asset rather than a liability and without it what would happen. I Set the goal at 5000 acres of beets and let every beet grower in South Sanpete and North Sevier get squarely back of the big factory and plant beets and enjoy the happy faculty of making money and supporting an institution that is invaluable to everyone. |