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Show BEET SUGR ITEMS. Interesting News from Various Sources. J The sugur company have recently received re-ceived n number of new beet drills. v The stocknolders of the U tali'' Sugar Co. will hold their annual meeting at Salt Lake Oily next Tuesday for the purpose of electing a board of directors. Tho Wisconsin papers arc working hard fur the sugar industry in that state and good results will doubtless follow. v Contracts for this a?asoiVs beet crop are being signed quite reudiiy now. Up to yesteiday, 1,0 0 (feres hall been contracted con-tracted for and the total acreage for the Beaton will' he 2,500. 'lie factory ceitbed its working on seconds, Sutnr-dap, Sutnr-dap, anil the hum of machinery is no longer heard. The last car of white sugar was ihipned toThurber, yesterday, yester-day, which cleans up the season's product. The seconds are beingahipped to the American refinery company at N'w Orleans. Before die commencement commence-ment of the campaign additional sheds for storing will be rereted on the factory grounds, with a capacity of about 3,000 tons.of beets. There will be three sheds of 1,000 tons each. Eddy Argus. Twelve tons of beet seed arrived at the Southern Pacific depot on Friday, snysThe Anaheim Guzette in a late issue, and was distributed among a large number of beet raisers. This seed will be sufficient to plant 1,000 acres, and as the acreage to be planted in this neighborhood neigh-borhood this season is estimated at 4,600 acres, other shipments of seed wilj follow! Anotlier,cpitsignmehtbf-seed is loke1Pfor ontiTe'Soim-ho upibuut o beet seed used in this vicinity last j-eur was upwards of forty tons, but a large acreage had tc bo implanted on account of the unfavorable weather. The season so far has been ideally perfect, and seeding operations are being carried on, on a large scale. As it now stands the new tariff bilj gives uinple protection to our important sugar interests and it will doubtless be passed as it now stands so far as the sugar schedule is concerned. The country has received a great awakening on this subject tho last few months and there are but few in this great country but what now kuows something about it and tho country is demanding that a stop bo put to the terrible drain which has been caused by the outflow of gold for foreign sugar when there are thousands of farmers at home suffering from a depressed market and are anxious to grow beets and capitalists are anxious to make' them into sugar if they can only receive fair treatment at the hands of the government. Almost ovory class of newspaper has taken holu o.-this o.-this question and now is the appointed time for something to be done. |
