Ogden Sun | 1905-10-31 | Page 5 | Big Beet Deliveries

BIG BEET the farmers 0 the bear river valley are delivering in wagons and on the cars about 2000 tons 0 beets per day and from present indications the output of the crop will be about 10 cent more than the estimate placed upon it ahen the harvest commenced this years crop of beets Is of an unusually high order both as to purity and sugar content which proves conclusively clu that there Is no more favored spot n utah for ahe culture at the sugar beet than the B ear river valley the malad valley railroad company has received some laborers to work on the extension of its railroad from this point to malad city and it Is expected that th e road will be completed to malad city within the next two 0 three weeks the sugar company has offered the farmers of that city 25 cents per ton to harvest their beets and store them unell such time as the road Is completed the railroad company claims that shortage of material and labor has delayed the completion ot the road