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Show BlUiT SUGAR "iTKMS. Intw King News from Various Jf Sonitcs. Charles Hain has tlie honor of delivering the first hind ol lels this season. Tim Sugar Co new wntii limne will be begun inilnodlnlely. The biilldiur will be 10x135 feet wtth a capacity of 20,0!I0 sacks of sugar Clans Spreckels was ,iv Salinas Monday, Mon-day, and the allow ing of acreage con Iraetitl wns satisfactory to him and lo lias ntiuotinred that tho big factory is to Im built iu thai valley. SaUnaidesencs fonunitolfltlons on her success. Orders have been given that all of the Hollistor beet crop mutt bo iu before Sent. 10th. SauJiiaii will como next, and the Pajaro ami Salinas valleys w ill keep nt it to tho Ijnieh of the run. l'ajiironion. On Tuesday morning tlie sugur factory started to tako up heels by putting on a larg" forco of iiien, Iioh and teams. All lieing well, the factoy will start on Saturday instead of Moii-das Moii-das ni was staled last wek. The fompaii) lias r.otitlctl ipilto a number ol (armors to commence taking up their becta at once. "Tlio I'eco? Valley peoplo Imvo acted wisely In securing tlio advico of experienced ex-perienced men (or the beet growers In that valley. Mr. Austin, who in superintendent super-intendent of I lio farm operations of tlie I .eh I, Utah, company, was down there for three or four weeks No better adviser could well bo found if success for a term of years counts in a man's favor, lie was followed by M. K, Johnson, of Cliitio, Chlifornla, another recognized export," says the Irrigation age. A recent Isbuo of thu Sugar Beet says that lifty years ago it was possible to rent thu best Prussian farm lauds for l- an aero ; that thcynow rent nt f 10 toflo. These same lands give employment to double tlie number of peoplo ami feed three times the number of animals formerly employed ami fed. This is Ta1frneTr"TolK)"tono of (lie chief advantages ad-vantages fiom the growing of heels, Tho farmer who lives happy and contented con-tented in a homo frio fiom debt need not envy tlie millionaire Mi. Alex KobertHon, the local rgcut for the sugar factory, reports an tin. usattlly large crop of beett in this bailiwick with prospects for snrhariiie properties in rich nbtindaucy if n few days of warmer stiiishiug shall be vouchsafeJ The stormy, cloudy, weather has thrown tbo heel crop bo-hind bo-hind about two weeks ami the factory will not receive until Sept Kith, The licet growers would better govern themselves them-selves accordingly ns on account of the I latu season a rush is pretty likely to en I sue.- Spriiigvll'clndepeiiilenl Sugar beets liavo been going iu steadi ly the pint week, '11111 tlio factory operations opera-tions Imiu not stiirercd a delay of any kind. The delivery from tho Chino fields for tho week ending last night , was 4217 tons, or an nventgo of 703 tone I per day. This mnkis a total of the season tn dale of 17,878 tons The Innnaeu received fron Anaheim is 1 about "COO to date making tlie receipts, i gtots, nt the factory, over 25,000 tons. i Tlie foggy mornings tins week lime had 'lie cnTri't, and tha percontajto ( sugar is slightly lower. Chlno Champion. 1 What We Miht Do. It has been estimated that, iu ordei to produce tho amount of sugar now im ported, tliero would bo required 020 beet sugar factories, with a capacity of 360 tons of beets each for every working day of 24 hours. Kncli factory would work up tlie product of 2,000 acres of I sugar Iteets, mid 020 factories rould ulllUe the product of 1,810,000 acics. At mi nveiHge nf ten tons of sugar beets per aero this would equal 18,400,000 tons of beets The total number of men employed em-ployed in the factories and in tlio beet Ileitis would lepresunt a population of about 2,5000,001 people. The total average amount annually pahl for Mignr beets required by 020 factoilus, iu order to produce 1,718,601 tout of sugar now impoited, would be: Pur 18,100.000 tons of beets, at lpor Inn, 173,000,000, 10 per cent of which (or nearly 30,000,000) would on an averni!'1 reprosont the farmers' share of the total mint earned. The average co-it of eouitrurtion of each factory having a capacity of JtfO tomtit (00,000; or. for 020 factories 108,000,000, which would lie dlsti United among our machine shop and the ! building trndf, tlie bulk of this timniin ol m utey going to Aineilc.in labor Kvouomist. |