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Show Sugar Mill to Run, It Is Announced 1 W. Harvey Ross, president of tha Gunnison Sugar company, and woo spent several days here this week looking over the crop situation, mud the statement before leaving for hia home at Salt Lake that the factor would carry on the campaign of siuv-ing siuv-ing beets if sufficient beets w;r harvested to justify. While the cine is far below normal due to the pro-vailing pro-vailing pest, President Ross expressed express-ed his desires to aid in every possible possi-ble way in handling what beets thcv are and keep the factory running to care for the harvested crop as well as distribute among the workmen at the factory and in the fields the money mon-ey necessary to do the worh. "The present condition of the beet is one of the occurrences that humanity hu-manity has no control over. The opca winter and the continued dry spe'l during the summer has been ideal for the propagation of the leaf hopper hop-per and this pest has been the ruination ruina-tion of the beet crop, not. only in thi valley, but throughout Northern Utah and daho. There is a consolation, consola-tion, however, in the fact that tlio a is little chance for recurrence next season. As history has proven tha year following pests usually is a good one, and I am inclined to look forward to the coming season as ona without the disastrous pest. In running run-ning the factory this season we will have to have the full co-operation of the growers in digging. We will start the mill and hope to, at least, have close to a 30 per cent production produc-tion of last year." At the factory some twenty-fiva men are putting the finishing touches touch-es on the installation of the many additions and the big plant is in prime condition for running. D. H. Whittenburg, agricultui ist for the company, stated yesterday that digging would not be starteil until some time in October. With the recent rains and with the diminishing dimin-ishing of the pest, there is already a slight improvement in the condition of the beets. With nearly two ;.nl a half months before harvesting it la believed that some of the beets will develop sufficiently to make them large enough for sugar producing purposes. The Utah-Idaho company, it is unofficially un-officially announced, is facing tha same problems of the local factory. Of the sixteen factories located in Utah and Idaho, only three are sch-duled sch-duled to run. The Elsinore factory will not turn a wheel on account of the crop being almost an entire failure fail-ure in the district covered by the factory. |