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Show Sugar Factory for Delta Outlook for Factory Bright. Big Acreage is In Sight.--2800 Acres Pledged at Meeting Meet-ing Last Saturday. Contracts Con-tracts Soon Ready Bishop Mafixeld left this morning morn-ing for Salt Lake City on business. busi-ness. At the Delta Opera House, (formerly the Marsoni) dancing every Saturday night. Ivan Jacobs, who has been attending at-tending the L. D. S. business college col-lege at Salt Lake, returned last Saturday to his home in Wood-row. Wood-row. Mrs. Ward and little daughter, Hattie, returned the last of last week, from a visit to Mrs. Ward's daughter, Mrs. Blades, of Aberdeen, Idaho. Coming, to the Marsoni, the "Dandy Dixie Minstrels". Not a cheap aggregation of colored people, but a good minstrel show. Watch for the date. All boys and girls who are entering en-tering the flower and vegetable garden contest given by the Delta Del-ta Furniture Store must turn in their names to Mr. Miller by June the 15th. m3-10 Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Nebeker have taken over the Hub Cafe and will continue to run it in connection with the Dunsmore Hotel. They are both well known to the peoplee of Delta, Del-ta, who wish them success. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Blackburn, of Sevier, have been here the past week visiting their aunt, Mrs. M. E. Nebeker, and looking for a location. They like the looks of the country very well, and will probably locate near here. They left for their home on Wednesday. Wednes-day. The Sun Flower Sunday School celebrated Children's Day last Sunday a. m., with a program which brought together people from a large area. Much credit is due to the persistance and labor la-bor of Mrs. Weatherby for the success achieved. Most of those attending the Sunday School services ser-vices brought their lunches and remained for the preaching service ser-vice in the afternoon, at which Rev. W. M. Paden made the address. ad-dress. Isaac Jacobs, of Woodrow, was in town last Saturday all togged up with about the blackest right eye we've seen for a long time. It looked like he had run up against the business end of a Missouri. Canary (mule). But on inquiry he denyed the allegation allega-tion when so charged, and said while tying a horse in the stall by another it made a dive to bite the other animal and struck Mr. Jacobs just over the right eye with a buckle which was on the halter. Had he been struck half an inch lower it would have surely put out his eye. community and many questions asked and satisfactory answers returned. Particularly appropriate approp-riate was Uncle Jim Melville's appeal to the people to take advantage ad-vantage of this exceptionally fair offer. Mr. Melville has been largely instrumental in bringing the Delta Project to the attention of these capitalists, and his remarks re-marks were followed closely, as he is known to have the welfare of the project at heart, and every farmer feels that his advice is not given on the spur of the moment, but after long and careful consideration con-sideration of the subject. Mr. Melville made especial mention of the benefits that would occur to the Project as a whole, thro the installati m of this factory. These benefits do not appear until un-til the subject is gone into thoroughly, tho-roughly, and they then become more apparent. The site for the factory, should it be located in the project, has not yet been decided, as it will depend on future developments. The company asks that a tract of 200 acres be furnished them upon up-on which to build, and that will have some bearing on the location. lo-cation. As a last word we would say that the people of this project should leave no stone unturned to secure this factory There are no dozen industries within our reach that will build up the country, coun-try, and secure prosperity and happinness to its commonwealth as a sugar beet factory will. We have only to look at the communities commun-ities in our state which have been built up by the sugar beet industry to prove that this is true. Mr. Melville voiced the sentiment senti-ment of the audience when he said that he wished to see the whole commuuity united in an effort to bring the factory to this project, and hoped to see and hear from all the surrounding towns in regard to it, and in assisting as-sisting them to investigate its possibilities. Meetings will be held at the following places: Deseret, Thursday evening. Woodrow, Friday evening. South Tract, Saturday evening. Watch for the date of the big "Dandy Dixie Minstrels", and be' there if you want to hear some "Dandy" good music. Coming, coming, The Dandy Dixie Minstrels will be here soon at the Marsoni. Big band and Creole Ladies quartet. Fine vocal vo-cal and instrumental music. If you want the best in Delta get a Monarch Steel Range at the Delta Furniture Store, and that will delight you and your friends. m3-10 The sugar beet meeting called for by the Commercial Club of Delta, as published in the Chronicle Chron-icle of last week, was attended by abut one dundred and fifty representative rep-resentative farmers and others. The meeting was called to enable the farmers and all interested in the sugar beet industry, to meet with the representatives of New York capitalists. These representatives represen-tatives made some very entertaining entertain-ing and instructive talks, showing show-ing the profits to be derived from the raising of sugar beets, and stated their proposition as to the building of a factory. They produced statistics showing the great value per acre of the sugar beet crop. Instances were cited where the net returns on sugar beets in Utah, have gone as high $79i per acre in fields of as much as twenty acres. In order to securea a fctory for the Delta Project, it is necessary that 5000 acres of beets be guaranteed. guar-anteed. This acreage wonld furnish a factory with material to run at least ninety days. Such a factory as the one now under consideration would mean a consumption con-sumption of 800 tons of sugar beets every twenty-four hours, and the production of 200 pounds of sugar every minute. This factory is estimated to cost in the neighborhood of one million dollars, and would take eight months to build. The construction construc-tion would be commenced this fall, and during the sugar season would employ between 200 and 300 men, beside those engaged in the raising of the beets. The proposition, as put up to the growers is a very liberal one. The Company proposes to give the growers $5 per ton for beets which test 15 saccharine, and a 25 raise for every per cent above that up to 18 meaning mean-ing $5.75 per ton for beets testing test-ing 18 saccharine. In addition to this, the company proposes to give to each sugar beet raiser one share ofstock of the par value of $1, each year for each acre of beets raised during the life of the contract, which extends over a period of seven years. In other words, if the producer raises ten acres of beets each year for a period of seven years, he will receive a bonus of seventy shares of stock worth one dollar per share. This, however, holds good only with the original contractors who sign up at the time of solicitation solic-itation to secure the required acreage. acre-age. A vote was taken at the meeting meet-ing Saturday to ascertain the number of acres of beets that could be secured. The vote showed show-ed that among the one hundred and fifty people gathered there, 2800 acres would be pledged to secure a factory, and there were many farmers not present who may be counted on to raise beets, and these will be sufficient to more than bring the acreage up to the required 5000. A great deal of enthusiasm was manifested, and all seemed anxious that every means practicable practi-cable be used induce the location of the factory in our midst, and the general sentiment was that this is the fairest and most liberal contract that could be hoped for. A number of short talks were made by different people of the |