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Show COLORADO'8 LARGE RETURNS Forty-five Million Dollars Added to State's Wealth by Beet Sugar Industry Tho financial returns from tho 1915 campaign of tho beet sugar Industry In Colorado, tho leading sugar producing pro-ducing stato of tho country havo add. ed $45,000,000 to tho wealth of tho stato. This sum Is approximately oqual to tho total metal output In this stato for tho past year. Tho valuo of Colorado's sugar production pro-duction of 242,170 short tons this season at the present market price amounts to $25,000,000. Nearly $11,. 000,000 was paid to tho farmers of tho stato for tholr beot crop of 1,913,-3G0 1,913,-3G0 tons grown on 158,183 acres, and over $3,000,000 wont to tho farm laborers la-borers for their services. Tho fourteen four-teen factories oporatlng paid $2,500,. 000 for factory labor and $2,400,000 for factory supplies, Tho valuo of tho sugar beot crop represents 25 per cent of tho total valuo of nil tho agricultural crop8 of Colorado in 1915, exceeds by $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 tho valuo of tho gold output of tho stato, and Is larger by $1,000,000 than the combined valuo of all the other Colorado metals mined during the year. |