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Show TI,7 SUGAR PLAN! Machinery to Move by September 15. A BIG ACREAGE OF BliLTS. When the First Sugar is made, the Co. will have spent $,125,000. "Will the sugar plant bu in operation by September 1?" wns tho query put to Hon. Francis Armstrong, who line been one of tho most nctivo workers in the new enterprise which bidH fair to add to Utah's fame as it manufacturing center. cen-ter. 'No, 1 think not. Wo hnvo assurances, assur-ances, however, that by tho 15th of the month thu mammoth machinery will bo in readiness to move." "Of course, that will lion big day for ft Int. , J ,1111 1 "It will bo a blgilay, nnd wo shall seo to it that it is duly and fittingly celebrated, cele-brated, .Tho work is going ahead just as fast as possible. Fifty men hnvo been employed to date, liecnuso that is nil that could lie economically worked. Arrangements Ar-rangements havo now been made, however, how-ever, whereby the forco will liu increased to one hundred men, and work will bo prosecuted day and night. Tho electric light plant will bo leady for uso inn very short time. "Tho magnitude of tho enterprise," continued Mr. Armstrong, "is something some-thing few people hnvo any idea of. Think of ono hundred unloads ot machinery ma-chinery being used, to say nothing of tho other appurtenances-" 'As to the Ket outlook 7" "It could not lie better. So far ns I havo been nblo to learn, not les than 2,R(K) arc now under cultivation, nnd this season lias been cry f.tvorablo to tho itilturcof tho sugar beet. Mr. Dyer who has ihargo ot tho works, siih hu never nnw anything superior in California. Cali-fornia. Tho farmeis, too, have taken liold of tho idea of beet cultuip in earnest, ear-nest, and many will double, triblo or quadruple, next year tho acreage they dovoled lo beets this year." "Ami ss to the co"t of thu plant, when ready to begin work?" "Hy the tlmo the lirst sack ot sugar has been made theoutlay will hnve been not less than $ 125,000."' Tin: I. tin hank. The stockholders ot tho l-chl bank will Inn tin meeting to nrjjunirn to-d.iv, thu nrtlclcsot incoipornlioii having been Hied in the Utah coiinly court some dayBngo. Thu new bank will throw-open throw-open its doors on Thursday, July 1(1. The cashier will be Ole Lllingson, n well known resident o(l. hi.-y. L. HtiaUI. |