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Show The Beet Industry tH . Manager Cu'.ler returned from a iH successful eastern business trip yester- H day lie reports increased intcrert be-, fl ing shown in the beet sugar industry :H and capitalists are looking in that dir- ection for profitable investments. Tho sugar factory for Mt. Nebo wilt be built H in time to bundle tho beet crop of 1800, H Business in in many lines is improving though the war scaro h affecting some lines. Mr, Cutler Is as enthusiastic as H ever over the beet sugar industry, and predicts n bright future for it. H There is strong talk of Messes. Knight tH and Loose of Prove with other iocrl crp- H italists erecting a beot sugar factory be- iH tweeu l'rovo and Spiingvillc in the near H All the beet drills owned by thc&ugar H company are now at work putting in tH seed as fast as possible. Over '500 H acres in the southern district are now iH planted and mote than that in Lehi. H The work is being pushed in Salt Lako H valley and it the weather ntnys good H nearly all the !!,400 will be planted in a H i'ouple of weeks. Supt. Austin was H south yesterday overseeing the work tH down there. He says the laud is in n iH i good condition and so far the prospects H arc good for a crop. if All of tho mother beets aro now plant- t ed. In nil there are about 8 acres, 1 on iH the bench and 4 in the old Held. This is i only about one half tho acreage planted H last season, as no more mother beets could be obtained. lfl . In an editorial" this nior'iing.thorribsg text H that there- is plenty ofmonoy in tho JCust, to be had for use by men of j-tfjgo- H ment and experience in heet-ugai i making; he has just returned frgjuCtatk's H with capitalists on the matter;'" iiml ho H says further, that ho intends to obtain H some o this money and incieaso tho H numbi r'of beet-jtigar plants in the West H vermaterii)lly within tho next few H years. We are glad to hear that Mr, - H Cutler talks that miv; for the Held i H ripe, and an indefinite extension of tho ,-' iH beet-sugar industry is exactly what the H Western region mot want and can best |