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Show NEW SUGAR ; FACTORY IS PROGRESSING A small company of Logan cltl- 'H zons accompanied Genornl Manager ' J. A. Hendrlckson, Tuesday, to tho , factory Bite of tho West Cacho. Sugar IH company at Cornish, for tho purposo jH of Inspecting tho progress of tho 'H work. They report being very iH pleased over what they saw. Over ' 100 mon nro working nine hours per IH day on tho buildings nnd grounds, be- IH sides a gang of railroad men who aro jH working on additional railway track- H ago. Various machines aro alroady jH being placed in permanent places. 'H Small houses and tonts nro scattored j H over the tcn-acro tract of land, mak- IH lng It appear as a small city, and H 100 people sit down to the meals H servod by tho construction company. H Mr. Hendrlckson reports twenty of 1 tho company's seed drills busily en- H gnged by tho farmers In tho nolgh- H borhood putting In seeds, and that H already 2500 acres aro planted, and H by May 25 tho company will havo about C00O acres planted. Ho also roports thoy hnvo all tho seed need- ed for this year's planting and suf- tH flclcnt seed secured to Insure tho H company's needs for tho years 1918- H 1919. Tho construction company, 1 who havo furnlBhod n $ 100,000 bond guaranteeing tho completion or the H mill la time for tho fall's campaign, aro pleasod with tho progro3s they H aro making and perfoctly satisfied , H thoy will havo tho mill ready in ' H time. Stxty-flve cars of stool and ( machlnory and many carloads of H lumber aro now on tho grounds. Tho sugar company Is adopting an unusually safe -method in providing jH thomselves with the nocessary water for tho mill's noeds by piping a stream of water 5000 feet in 18-Inch H pipe, four feet undor ground, to tho " factory, thus insuring against frost LH or any other wator troubles. Our lo- F H cal people Interested In tbo advance- Ihjl ment of our valloy, would do well to iH tako a run up to Cornish nnd observe jj tho progress boing mado In and H around tho plant. About 1200,000 1 of Cacho valloy money Is going Into i.1 tho plant. Tho balanco of the cnpl- f tal neoded comes from other parts FrB of the stato. p'9 . tiH Tho sugar company are fortifying ftffl themselves by securing competent Hl holp to tako charge of tho mill as H soon as tho campaign starts, and tho !H construction company have among H tholr hands somo of tho experts in sugar factory building. Tho supor- IH lntendont of construction, C. S. (nfl Fisher, is the ninn who was In chargo Sftfl of the construction of tho Twin Falls Sjfl sugar factory, Idaho, built by tho wtfk Amalgamated Sugar company last Kgl year. Tho sugar company alroady 35 1 havo tholr superintendent, W. W. jSU Cowley, who was superintendent of H tho Layton sugar factory for two ' H years and at tho Knight sugar plant H at Raymond sevoral years. Mr. John H Finch Is now employed as chief mo- H chanlc by tho construction company, whoso duty Is to place all machlnory H in proper condition and will continue ns head mechanic In tho sugar factory whon tho plant Is completed. He Is ncquaintod and knows tho needs of ovory Inch of a sugar factory. H Mr. Hendrlckson stated that tho construction company will bo putting M on an additional fifty men right IjB away, Including carpenters, mason3 M and common laborors, so nnyono In tho valley wanting employment can H olthor call up tho sugar factory by H tolophono or go out to tho plant and H consult tho superintendent. |