Show SUGAR BEET FACTORY FACT K I 1 NEXT THING ING ON LOCAL LOVAL oam PROGRAM F at M turner field superintendent of the united states sugar and land co of gardner city kansas reached price on tram train no 3 last ast friday night sonic some capitalists of colorado have been approached pro ached on the subject of building a sugar factory in this vicinity and mr air turner was sent here to mako make a report on the proper it on however when he found ft a foot of i snow on the ground and the thermon eter registering several degrees below zero he decided to po copone pone making a amport rt port to his people at this time expecting to return in the early spring and make a complete report mr turner says in his opinion there is an abundance of land in the price river valley incle ing the land to bo be placed under tinder cultivation by the new high land ditch just finished to support a sugar factory and that he would recommend to the people who settle under the nw canal to first sow their land in alfalfa and in two or three years the alfalfa will loosen tho the soil up and ferta lizo it sufficiently to raise twenty tone tons of sugar beets per acre the factories are paying five dollars per ton that meats meals 00 per acre and ten acres will support any ordinary family the sugar company at gardner city contracted with the farmers in that vicinity ity for twelve thousand acres Us his hearland ye arand arland will ill contralto mt aLt for t e ity thou sa d next bear ear if it can get the acreage iio ile sas the sugar factory has been tn fn operation for three years at gardner cardner city jt t cost one million dollars and they began the work gardner city was a place of about 1200 or people houses were not and side walka walks were vcr ver scarce now in three ears cars the has crown grown to a population of between civo rive and eix six thousand and ard they have milea miles of concrete eido eide walks and any namur of ten and dollar reside ces and modern schools churches and opera housed and ivr 80 automobiles air turner eay says thero there is is no reason why price cannot do as well in the next three or four eare ears it i the people will support the commercial club of irice price by advertising and boosting the resources of this valley no community cin can c in expect to ad vance and keep up with the pace at this present day and age without unity of action advertising and bo boosting their resources |