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Show $450,000 Is Distributed To Sugar Beet Growers Payment for Entire 1930 Crop In One Installment Tonnage and Sugar Content Exceed Expectations Approximately $450,000 in . checks will reach the hands of beet growers in the district operated by the Gunnison Gun-nison Sugar company, today and tomorrow, to-morrow, Thursday and Friday. Of-; Of-; ficial announcement was made Wednesday Wed-nesday that the checks would be mailed mail-ed out Tuesday and would reach here Thursday. The amount stated above will include the total payroll for the beets alone this season, a feature that has not occurred since the big factory was started several years ago. Although the contract stipulates that the payments would not be due until November 15 for the October deliveries, and that November deliveries deli-veries would not be paid until December, De-cember, the entire settlement is being be-ing made with the issuing of the checks this week. With the distribution distribu-tion of the beet checks, together with labor and other items, the Gunnison Sugar company will distribute during the 1930 campaign $750,000. The ideal weather conditions prevailing pre-vailing since the harvest was started early in September, have aided materially ma-terially in bringing about the total beet settlement at this time. With the exceptions of one day, perhaps, nothing has come about to delay the harvest, and availing themselves of. i the opportunities, the growers lost no i time in getting the mammoth crop out of the ground, and today there are but a very few, if any, beets yet to be harvested. Huge piles of beets are in storage at the various loading stations operated by the company, and are located in Sevier county and North Sanpete county. Contracts for moving the beets from the storage, points to the factory, have been let and as work progresses at the factory these beets will be moved for sliciii ; and treatment at the plant. The average tonnage, it was announced, an-nounced, is far ahead of that anticipated, antici-pated, and the sugar content is running run-ning above normal. The exact figureT for these have not been as yet absolutely abso-lutely determined, but the fact that the tonnage held up well and with a sugar content, is gratifying. The growers, as well as the officers of the company, are highly - jubilant at the outcome of the harvest. Not alone has the beet harvest-and harvest-and the payment of checks at this time been highly gratifying, but thi big sugar mill operations have reached reach-ed a higher standard of - efficiency than ever before. The beet growing industry, particularly particu-larly in the districts covered by tho. Gunnison Sugar company, have prov- , en a boon to the anany growers. The fact that the crop is a cash proposition proposi-tion and does not have to be stored to await a better price, is an advantage over the grain or hay grower. Tho latter, in many cases, are awaiting a raising price, and in many instances his crop must of necessity be held , over, while the beet grower is assured as-sured of his money when his crop ia delivered, and his taxes, notes and., obligations can be met with more ea:;ci than the farmer who must wait for better prices or for a demand for his hay, grain and other products. |