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Show BEET SUGAR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various jf Sources." i Thero is now only 3500 tons of beeta ' in the factory sli'ida and if eryerything goes Well about ten more days will clean them up and tho run will close about Jan. 21. They have now finished the big pile and ore working in the shells. The men arc getting tired of tho work and mnkirig every excuse to getpff for n day or two and Supt. Granger suya there is Home men off on every shift. Good reports arc given of tho stock at the sheds and they are fattening nicely. Tom Webb wuh down yesteidny looking over the sheep. Manager Cutler went to Salt Lake on business yesterday. This week they commence to plant beet seed near King City, Cal. The land around San Juan ond HoUister will be sown very early this year. The turn of tho year comes very early in those sections. Messrs. Comer and Gough, the battery men at tho factory, were quite severely scalded last night. ApropiBof the question of sugar beets and silver the Denver Field and Farm eays that the Grand valley in western Colorado could produco Bugar beets sufficient to supply the demand of our entire country. The beeta grown in that valley yield from sixteen to twenty-two twenty-two per cent of sugar, and their value would be many times that of all the silver mines of the state, even with' the white metal admitted for coinageatthe ilhsntirmuch-td-b'ccHlriidbasis of 10 to 1, tho only true ratio. |