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Show AMALGAMATED COMPANY WILL BUILDJ-ACTORY Decide to Erect Sugar Factory In the Alta District. Meeting Held With Farmers The officials of the Amalgamated Sugar Company, visited tho Alta district west of Smlthfleld yesterday and at a meeting with tho farmers and land owners of that vicinity, advised ad-vised them that thoy now had assurances assur-ances of seed supply for several years and wero ready to build n sugar factory. They also announced the good now8 that as a matter of facilitating the delivery of beets, they would extend tho lntcrurban railway, south from Kent's Spur at Lowlston to a point near Benson, work upon samo to begin at an early date. This movement will open a comparatively com-paratively now territory and contribute contrib-ute n great ndvantage to tho farm operations of the community, und ndd materially to tho value of farm lands to bo traversed by the railroad. rail-road. Vico President, Joseph Scow croft; Secretary, Fred Taylor, with local representatives M. S. Eccles and W. W. Low, and Merrll Nlbloy, of tho Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, who represented tho church Interests, went over tho proposition very thoroughly thor-oughly before making tho dellnlto announcement, and Mr. Taylor remained re-mained over to inspect or select tentative ten-tative factory sites, with the commltteo com-mltteo appointed for that purposo. This makes another long stride in industrial supremacy for Cache, which' 13 being nationally recognized as one of the richest valleys In tho world, and needless to Bay tho. people peo-ple will lend hearty support to the enterprise. Tho committee appointed to select tho slto for tho proposed factory consists of P. P. Bingham, Chas. G. Wood, W. G. Raymond, George Y. Smith and Howard Rccso. |