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Show 1000 ACRES TO SUGAR BEETS Mr. J. T. Lant, local repre. ser.tative of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, informs us that he has contracted for the planting plant-ing of slightly over 800 acres of sugar beets with the settlers of the Delta Project, and states that at least 1,000 acres will be contracted for by the end. of the week. Let us do a little figuring: 1,000 acres of beets yielding on the average of 15 tons to the acre will be 15,000 tons, it's a dead mortal cinch that the beets grown in this valley will sell at $4.25 a ton at the least calculation, calcula-tion, which would make $63,750 worch of beets raised by the settlers. set-tlers. It is reasonable to presume that most of the beets grown here will command the price of $4.50 per ton or better, and in this case, they would market ip67,500 worth of sugar beets. Quite a snug little sum, isn't it? Now let us deduct for seed, labor, marketing; and interest on money invested, say these items will amount to $45 an acre, not exceeding that, anyway you can figure, therefor the total cost of producing the beets will amount to $45,000. They sell for $07,500 on the market, thus the beet raising settlers will realize a profit of $22,500 for this year's beet crop alone at the very lowest estimate, to say nothing of what they will make off their wheat crops, alfalfa, hogs and dairy cows. It certainly certain-ly looks as though the settlers in this locality are going to make several barrels of money during the year 1915. . While $22,500 is not such a big amount of money, consider that it will be divided among less than 150 settlers who have contracted to raise beets on the Delta tracts. The settlers on the Melville Project will grow possibly 300 or 400 acres of beets. E. D. Hashimoto, a wealthy Japanese and associates of Salt Lake City, are here this week for the purpose of leasing all the available land suitable for the growing of beets that they' can get, and expect to bring in Jap laborers to care for all the acreage acre-age they may be successful in leasing for the planting ofr beets. |