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Show ' BHOWH VALVKJ0F. JIIGAI FACTORY FAC-TORY Figures showing what the establishment estab-lishment ofa beet sugar factory meaus to a community were presented present-ed at the weekly luncheon of the notary no-tary club of Billings, Montana, in an address by W. P. Hogarty, district manager of the Great Western Sugar company. Mr. nogarty showed that the Billings factory, slnco Its erection erec-tion In 1906,. had manufactured flvo million bags of sugai and had paid the farmers or the dlstilct upwards of twelvo million dollais for their biet crops. Kxpi-ndltuies for laboi In the factory fac-tory appioxlmated fho mlllloon dollars, dol-lars, a laige pail or which had' been re-expended In loial. maikets or Inn-sled in local piopeity. Materials pui chased locally for extension and maintenance of the plant had amount ed lo about two million dolais. Mr. Hogarty presented futhei statistics sta-tistics to' show that the by pioducts of tho Indusliy had been the means of substantial savings to stockmen of the dlstilct, halng bc,en sufllclent to feed 800,000 head of sheep or 100,-000 100,-000 head of cattle, whllo they had been an especially uiltmlilo asset to tho farmeis dutlng tho pcilod of ex tmmo high prices and scarcity of hay and grain. |