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Show At Waiionvllle, California. I'hiuo had 1 ,:!n Indira of rain last week Tho back bounty payments continue to bring cheer to beet farmers. The Chluo factniy, milled 011,000 tons of beets dining its 11111 this jcar. 1 Up toll p. in. Tuesday thu sugar mil had inn 1,7-S hours, had sliced 72,tft2 tons of h"'cts, -mil had packed 0,(IJ1 tons o'. sugm, Kiel hauling fioui most of thu I'ujiuo valley points lias been shut oil' lluee dajs this week. The Salinas and Sail Juan valleys are lushing lu their crops, and tho biushad a heiwy tonnage at thu closoof last week. 1'ajnro valley beet farmers hope for 11 continuance o( clear weather until after tho holidays. It Is cslluptcd thattlieie nro 30,000 tons of beets ulield in tho valley, and many of tho I reels have not sent n beet to thu milt. The sugar licet is receiving much attention at-tention from farmers mid capitalists lu ail parts of tliu country, and it promise to bu 0110 of tho most important products of tho United Httet in tliu near fiituiot In time tho United States will not have to impoit sugar for the home market. Clans Sprcckels has notified the Salinas beet factory coiuiultvvo that ho Is willing to cancel tliu lbU7 licet contracts con-tracts and is ready to contract for tlie 1803 crop, This Indicates that the Halioas fanlory will not lie readj fur busli.ess until 1608. In thu muaiiiimt tho preliminary work is being pushod. The factory is it cei Utility, l'ajarun mi |