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Show Reason Beet Raisers Lost Havameyer Prize A carload of beets was sent east to Wow York n short tlmo ago to compete com-pete in the Havomoyer $1,000 prize cup for tho best sugar beots produced by. any fnrmer, and nothing was heard of tho matter until tho awards was given. Ill luck, It Booms, Interposed to prevent any Cache Valley farmer getting get-ting tho plum through n railroad nc-cldont nc-cldont wulch wrecked tho car and scattered tho tubers all over tho country. The following letters ,and telegram will explain fully why tho farmers failed to score. Mr. Herschel Dullen, Logan, Utah. Dear Herschel: I I wish you would publish In I , your paper tho fact that a. numbor of I farmers lu Cache Valley entered' Into competition for a $1,000.00 cup of-I of-I ferod by Mr. Havemeyer to the farm-I farm-I er producing tho best beets. I ' These boots wore to bo exhibited in I New York City, and wo recoivod word ' through tho express office that after I the boetft had been shipped they had go( Into it wreck near Omaha, and H spilled all over tho country, and we enclose a telegram which we would I likoto have Insertod also, so the farm- ?rs 'who eeu tholr boeta con Under-I Under-I stand why thoy did not get the cjp ' Yours truly, H JOS. QDINNRY, .111- I Telegram: I Logan, Utah, Nov. 4, tit II. To General Mannger McClurg, I Singer Dulldlng New York Cflt'. I liavo just learned that all our brut H samples which were to have" been on M exhibition in Now York, were wreck- .1 at Omaha. We felt sure that hud they arrived and placed on exhibition, they would have taken tho cup offer- cd by Mr. Havameyer. IL Amalgamated Sugar Company. |
