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Show Sugar Company Completes Year's Campaign Monday In Spite of Small Beet Tonnage 1931 Is Successful Year-$222,000 Is Distributed Distrib-uted to Farmers and Employees. Completion of the 1931 sugar campaign cam-paign at the Gunnison Sugar company's com-pany's big factory was made Monday afternoon, when the last of the beet crop passed through the mill, and in-'' in-'' cidentally last Friday the company 1 passed out to the beet growers in ! the district, $100,000. October 28, ' some $90,000 was distributed, bringing bring-ing the total for beets alone to- $190,-000. $190,-000. The large crews that have been employed during the campaign, received re-ceived their wages, and for working-men working-men alone, during- the campaign, I $30,000 was paid out, thus bringing j the entire total distribution of cash by the sugar company for 1931 up to I S222.C0O. Comparatively, this is far I below normal years, but in the face ' of the long drouth, which cut the. I crop about 50 per cent, the distribu-'tion distribu-'tion of the money has proven a bis? lift for the beet growers. In keeping with the policy of the officials of the Gunnison Sugar company com-pany for the past several years, the payments for beets were advanced several days, which has added much to the satisfaction of the growers. Notwithstanding the fact that the district covered by the Gunnison Sugar Su-gar company was included in the drouth area, which resulted in many of the fields yielding only about half a crop, the growers became resigned to their fate and were able to join with other sections of Utah and adjoining ad-joining states in taking the losses. Ordinarily, summer rainfalls aided I the growers, but the climatic condi-tions condi-tions this year were not favorable, due to the lack of moisture in thn form of timely rains. And, too, the reservoirs were lowered as a result of lack of the usual underground flows, and altogether 1931 proved an off year. "Beet growing in this district is one of the most important crops ; from several standpoints," a promin- ent grower was heard to remark. "In j the first place, it is the only cash ! crop. When our beets are turned to i the factory, our pay is ready :.n:l I there is no gamble and no specubirion like there is in hay, livestock &m other farm products. The beet si l:fre, the syrup and the pasture afforded I following topping are other essen-j essen-j tials that must be considered in::'or-; in::'or-; tant to the grower. Naturally, so-ne ! of the growers complain at the re-( re-( Continued on last page) Local Sugar Factory Finishes Year's Run (Continued from page 1) . suits of the year's work, but other farmers who planted wheat and other j farm products, are suffering the same ! results, and the only way to pass this ! matter up is to forget the happenings of this year and look forward to the coming year. It promises better." The rainfall during the past two weeks has resulted jn soaking the 1 farm lands in fine shape and today the industrious farmer is getting in some good licks by plowing. And another an-other feature that will encourage the beet growers for another compaign is J the snowfall in the mountains. A year ago at this time, very little snow was j to be seen in the hills, and all during dur-ing last winter the future looked discouraging. dis-couraging. Today an unusual condition condi-tion exists. The peaks of the raoun-, raoun-, tains, as well as deep ravines, are covered and packed with a heavy blanket of snow. Preceding this snowfall snow-fall heavy rains fell and the ground was thoroughly soaked with moisture mois-ture and small underground rivulets were again filled with water. |