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Show BEET FIELDS ARE BEING SEEDED The farmers are at present planting their fields to sugar beets at the rato of 500 acres a day. There will be planted 5,000 acres for the Idaho factory this year and about 6,000 acres for the-Ogden factory. General Superintendent Le Roy Eccles Ec-cles of the Amalgamated Sugar com-panv com-panv Is In receipt of Information regarding re-garding a fiorco blizzard that swept over southern Idaho April 13, dolnq considerable damage to olectric plantn and wire lines In tho vicinity of Bur-ley, Bur-ley, where the company Is erecting a largo sugar plant. Work was suspended sus-pended more than 2-4 hours Much of the machinery for the Bur-ley Bur-ley factory is on the ground, Mr. Eccles Ec-cles says, and the foundation and basement aro In such shapo that porno of the heay machinery for the first floor of the plant Is being put in position. posi-tion. The old plant at La Grande has been completely dismantled and the greater great-er part of the machinery Is on the way to Burley. It is planned to have the Burley r,ugar factory running early In tho fall, even before tho harvesting of the beet crop begins. |