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Show n ; i Know Your Home : i ... $a,ooo,ooa Pno.M oo,ooA toj8 ojf bketk oitow.v o.v jio,oo aciieh on'EH somv: idea op tbe size .Op the iibkt ixiu'sthv in cachj vaKi.ey Article No. 4 . Last year over ?3, 000,000 was dls tributed among farmers of Cache valley val-ley In payment for the beet xop. This crop amounted approximately to 300,000 tons Blown on 30,000 acres. It was purchased and made into sugar su-gar by tho four factories located In the valley, at Logan, Smlthfleld, Lewlston and Cornish. These tout-factories tout-factories with a grinding capacity ot 2S00 tons dally, gave work to 1200 employees drawing a dally wage of 16,000 which ran into tho hundreds of thousands for the entire season. One ot the most important causes of tho agricultural stability ot Cache Vail)-Is the beet, ugar Industry. It 'rivblves the growla0bfvvA profitable' crop for which nn established and stnblo market exists and which fits admirably Into a farming district where the dairy Interests havo been so well developed. With tho expenditure of several thounands of dollars lit the near future fu-ture to make these factories even more efficient and to Increase materially mater-ially their capacity and with the expenditure ex-penditure of additional thousands to construct new factories, the beet sugar su-gar Industry will assuma tremendous I pro portions. Another reason, then, for the greatness of Cache Valley lles-lu tho union ot jond and capital .which hits bull UP t,,e Dte'- sugar Industry. |