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Show Sugar Factory Starts Promising Campaign Smashes Record for First Twenty-Four Hours When 600 Bags Are "Dropped." Campaign to Last 85 Days. Within twenty-four hours after the wheels of the big mill owned by the Gunnison Sugar company had started Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, 000 bags of high class sugar had dropped into the receiving bins. During this time some 876 tons of beets had passed pass-ed through the process of sugar making mak-ing and the production of sugar, as well as the slicing, establishes new records for the plant. Due to the fact that the mill had just started on the 1932 campaign of -sugar making, and considering the fact that the "tryout" was being made, speaks volumes for the operation of the plant. Work is I now well under way and the mill has ! roached a record of 900 tons per day, which, it is expected, will be maintained main-tained throughout the campaign. A full complement of men, some 125, are 'doing the operating at tin various stations in the factory, and every workman has familiarized himself him-self with his particular duty, thus j her ping every department in tip-top shape. In addition to the factory forces, 125 men are employed at the loading stations and a constant flow i of beets is kept going through the process treatment to convert the juices into a high class sugar. I Up to the present time, Superintendent Superin-tendent Hart J. Sanders stated, th; sugar content is not so high as it wa,3 a year ago. This is a result of the warm weather during the past fe weeks, which kept the beets growing. grow-ing. However, the recent cold snap, with heavy frosts in the night, will effect a favorable change and the beets are ripening much more satisfactorily, satis-factorily, which will materially increase in-crease the sugar content. Fourteen carloads, comprising the first shipment ship-ment from North Sanpete, were unloaded un-loaded at the factory Saturday. Digging Dig-ging was started in that section Friday Fri-day of last week and it will take several sev-eral days yet to clean up the 1300 acres planted. Careful check is being made by tin fieldmen in awaiting, the. ripening of the beets, and only those that are prime for gathering will be taken from, the fields at present. By neyt Monday it is believed that many of the patches will have reached the proper pro-per stage for topping, at which time orders will be given for harvesting. Entering on the 13th year of oper-a'ion oper-a'ion by the Gunnison Sugar, company, com-pany, indications point to one of the most successful seasons that the company com-pany has experienced. Weather conditions condi-tions have been highly favorable an-i little, if any, suffering has resulted from lack of proper irrigation. No definite estimate as to the average aver-age tonnage per acre has been announced, an-nounced, but it is thought that it will bo h'gher than ever before. The campaign cam-paign this year will continue for -it least 85 days. |