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Show Sugar Campaign To Start Monday "Naturally we feel elated over the prospects for the beet harvest this year. And it is a safe wager that the beet growers are smiling as well, all because of the successful crop that y has been grown in the district this year. We expect slightly more than 50,000 tons of beets for the campaign which begins in a few days, and with the sugar content hovering around 16 j per cent, it makes all of us feel joy-! ful, as it will undoubtedly be one of the best campaigns since the factory was established some six years ago." Thus spoke W. Harvey Ross, president presi-dent of the Gunnison Sugar company to a News man yesterday. Mr. Ross came down from Salt Lake Monday and is spending the major portion of the week looking over the fields and incidently making an inspection of the factory. It is announced that son' of the growers will start digging next Monday. Mon-day. This order, however, only includes in-cludes those growers whose beets are sufficiently ripe for the harvest. The beets will" be delivered at the factory at once and by the 8th or 9th, the big factory will start on the long grind. Laboratory tests during the week show that the sugar content is gaining in many of the patches and just as soon as the beets ripen orders will be given to dig. All through, in-cVdimr in-cVdimr the growth, size and sugar , content, is far ahead of the beets of last year and with the greatly increased in-creased tonnage, the big mill is destined des-tined for a long and no doubt, successful, suc-cessful, run. The big factory is in prime condition con-dition and everything is in readiness for the campaign. Superintendent Howard has had a crew of men at work during most of the summer and many additions have been made and all the " machinery has undergone complete overhauling. Generally speaking the growers are in fine spirits and while it has taken some 'years to get onto the real art of growing beets successfully, the major ma-jor portion of the farmers have mastered, mas-tered, the art and stand in a way to make some real money from beet raising. While it is true the price of sugar is at present at a low ebb, it is conservatively con-servatively believed that the lowest point has been reached. The next movft in the market will be unquestionably unques-tionably upward, due to the demand of beet sugar, and taking all into consideration the growers of the dis- strict for the Gunnison Sugar com- .' pany, excepting the present price of sugar, are highly pleased and indications indi-cations are that the acreage for the next season will be materially increased. |
