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Show Sugar Company Vill Mail Checks June 1st In keeping with its long established policy of "doing the thing right and ahead of time," the Gunnison Sugar company has sent out the advance notice that the third bonus will be paid to the beet growers of this section. sec-tion. The payment will only be on the basis of 50 cents per ton and checks will he forwarded from the Salt Lake offices June first. Approximately Approxi-mately $10,000 will be the amount to be distributed at that time. The bonus will be for the 1923 beet deliveries de-liveries and brings the grand total of bonuses paid for the last year crop up to $3.00 or on the basis of $8.50 per ton. And this is not the last, according, to advices received here from the Salt Lake headquarters. The final bonus will be made about September 1st, or just as soon as the final lot of sugar at the factory has been disposed dis-posed of. While nothing definite has as yet been given as to the last and final payment it is predicted that it will be no less than 50 cents a ton, which will bring the total payment for beets throughout vthe district for 1023 deliveries to the handsome sum of $9.00. The record made by the Gunnison Sugar company will stand for many yours to come. Thus far no sugar manufacturing company in the state has an equal record for paying bon-uescs bon-uescs and making the payments in advance and so promptly, and grow.-ers grow.-ers are indeed fortunate that such conditions are a reality. While the amount to be paid out on June 1st is not so large, seemingly, it will prove a big boon to the farmers farm-ers who are just at the point of starting start-ing another big planting and it will aid materially in helping to put over-one over-one of the biggest, and what now promises to be the "bumper" crop of the district. Conditions were never more favorable throughout the entire en-tire section and farmers were never busier in the fields. Planting of beets has been rushed with all speed and approximately 6000 acres have been seeded and in many instances! the crop is up and doing splendidly, j Some fear was entertained for the young plants due to the cold nights,! but reports from the agricultural de- : partment of the company and the ficldmen, is to the effect that no damage dam-age at all has been done as yet. It is not believed that any replanting will be required unless there is a radical change in the climatic conditions condi-tions and when the young plants reach a certain point in growth it takes severe weather to destroy. "The right spirit is being shown among the beet growers," said a well known beet grower to a News man yesterday. "The fact that we are all becoming more familiar with the business and each year are learning more of the cultivation, irrigation and care of beets, and with this j knowledge there is every reason to j believe that this section will supply i a tonnage for the local factory that j will make others throughout the state j take especial notice of the success of the growers for trie Gunnison Sugar Su-gar company." |