| Show Sugar Industry of Utah Develops Payrolls and Adds Value for Farms Better Conditions Condition Foreseen With Increased Moisture Certain For 1927 History of Business Reads Like Romance Weber County and nd Adjoining Sections lave Have Many Large Plants Operating Each Year rb h a sugar augar su r beet crop Is ono one oneo o c the most Important factors factora of n II agricultural lt activity Its beet bett gar l I production Is 0 oa I equal Im- Im Importance Im Importance from an Industrial I endpoint D fo to drought conditions con con- conditions con conditions tho beet crop was w s de- de raised de-raised a ased ed during 1926 l from rom normal rs re r However te the lOWS Iowa rs In fn tho the mountains the tho great great- creat moisture in the valleys valles has h air al- al alady r 1 ady indicated that 1927 will not noti b a a repetition of ot last year car and old wat farmers farmer will w get set better bette reo re- returns re returns turns urns from their acreage Last Latt season Beason the tho drought brought hardships on farmer and manufacturer Many beet growers offered u an nn almost total loss of ot rop and aud with a greatly reduced tonnage tob tobe to to- be b handled the th sugar dories felt the depression But no no now factor factory owner and beet civer ower arc are rejoicing over tho the Im- Im Improved Im Improved proved plo and are aro plan plan- planning plan nine ning on a year which will relm urso them for their reverses rA NC En The history of ot sugar production In n the Intermountain country Is Isono Isone Isone ono one of The Industry s given riven to the county an Im- Im improved proved farming condition and has hae ha distributed millions of ot dollars broush brough every ery avenue of ot business The rho pay days day which have havo placed millions in the hands of o the farm- farm farmr rs re r havo have been vitalizing forces In II It lines of ot human effort for tor the noney received by the Ilia beet grow grow- rs rs has been most widely distri distri- districted Ol or OP MONEY Without beet sugar money this r I glon would bo be deprived of ot the tho eat est source of ot r ready dy money in I tho the fall of ot the th year fear at tax time end nd when the tho storms of winter call 11 for many necessities When hen a a drought comes come as It dill did last year ear and reduces reduce the farmers farmer's yield of o beets the entire business usine a structure of o this terri tern y Jt lory or feels eels tho the strain and misses ml seaF 10 e flow ow of ot wealth from off oft the irni Im and with the sugar mills end and today U the sustaining faiths faith In Inthe the he future Is la In the almost certain that this there thero year ear will be bo bumper crops and once more the farmer will set get his hl big big- biger big cr er tar su checks when the liar liar- har harvest vest test est season Is at hand Because of ot general prosperous conditions throughout tho the country and particularly In Jn the Intermountain intermountain tain slates states the heavy decline In tIt tho beet crop returns was not as nsf to to the general public as to the beet grower and sugar manufacturer However had llad the tho prosperity ot of both the grower and the manufacturer added to tho the general welfare there thero would have ha been much bet better ter tel conditions for Ogden and nd the remainder of the tho Intermountain countr country With a normal year this will result re- re result re result sult fInd and nd when the th beet fields are verdant this spring and summer the tho tillers tiller will be able ablo to fortell better paydays payday for tor October Nov Nov- November November November ember December and other per per- perIods periods per periods of ot next fall tall STIMULATES BUSINESS The Th business communities of this region relon are lookIng forward to the tho same samo source or or prosperity when the th farmers farmer dell delivering their tons upon tons of ot sugar beets will be b the ono one great creal factor In IntonIng intoning Intoning tonIng up business In general The sugar companies are mak making ing preparations for the tho tonnage In the tho history of ot the th In- In Industry In and they base bane their ex- ex ex expectation on the tho favorable out out- outlook outlook out outlook look for tor CrOIS cross crop In all this terri terri- territory territory tor tory Utah's Utah agricultural prosperity dates from the time when the sugar factories were started In the early nineties The Ogden plant of the tho Amalgamated Sugar com com- company company company pany was one of tho the first of these Now V o sugar factories dot the tho entire state and Utah sugar companies operate In Idaho Wyo- Wyo Wyoming mine Wyo-mine ming Montana and Canada and even eyen now nowa a a factory Is being planned for South Dakota by the Idaho Utah Idaho Sugar company In Weber county there are arc two sugar factories the Immense plant or of the th Amalgamated Sugar Su ar com com- company company company I pany and that of ot the tho Hooper company Davis Davis- county has hIlS one the Layton Laton Sugar company plant at Layton In Box Elder county are aro two the Utah Idaho Sugar company plants plant at BrIgham and Garland Cache county has bas even more with factories at Logan Smithfield Lewiston Cornish are arc operated by the Amalgamated company while there thero Is another another factory near Preston Idaho just across the border Through cen- cen central central cen central and southern Utah Utah- there thero are arc factories likewise In eastern astern and southern Idaho Montana and Alberta arc aro linked In this chair chain with Wyoming and South Dakota to the Ule cast east Into every ery cv ry area that has hIlS sugar factories there has como come prosperity which Is only dImmed when wIlen drought or some torn other unusual condition arises Tho The history of the sugar Ing Industry Is la romantic It dates dale from the time timo of Lona- Lona lalle It was durin during this great soldiers soldier's rulo rule that thai the th modern methods of ot vegetable and fruit canning were discovered too J Orson Orion Douglas DOUR las sales sale manager t of the Sugar com com- compan company pany pan has lIas written nn an Interesting review of ot sugar manufacturing I progress In hIs hill review he writes A great creat many pages paces have havo been written about tho the value of o the I beet sugar industry to our home I states and the th United States Slates as a but I feel that In fact of this fact only a a very small part of our population realizes the tho Importance ot of this great In- In Industry industry In Industry viz what it has bas done dOlle hat doneV-hat what hat It Is doing what hat It will do doIt If protected and developed Like many man many other things we w do donot donot donot not fully appreciate what we wo ha have C right around us until they arc taken away and I am sin sure suro this Is true truc of tho the domestic sugar indus Indus- Ind Industry industry liS- liS liStry try This Industry Is la still eon con con from the blow blot ot of 1921 but wah was ways and means were provided pro to save sav Its it life Ufe no one on has particularly felt the stock lock except tho the companies themselves I shall however however endeavor to point out some om reasons reason why the Industry means so much to alt all al of ofus ol us I BACK CI TO X POLEO First I should like to treat Ireat the subject briefly In a general way before pointing out tho the an- an nu numerous advantages ad ot or this In- In Industry industry In Industry to us who live at tho the very doors of ot so 80 many sugar suar factories Going back Into history we e find that ten years ears after aCter the tho erection of the tho first beet su sugar ar factory In the world the tho great Napoleon had already learned tho the ot of the Industry and on March 18 1811 ho he dictated n II note not to 10 his minister of ot tho the interior as fol- fol follows follows fol follows lows The minister of o the th Interior will make a report to be sent to the council of or state In which tho advantages ot of developing the tho manufacture of or beet sugar will bo be Included All steps shall be betaken bo to encourage this culture and If necessary by modifying the the cus cus- cus tom cus house tom tariff for or a period of five ears years ea 18 or even coon Iho tho possibility of prohibiting absolutely ly tho the Im- Im Importation Im Importation of ot colonial or 01 foreign eugare The minister will viii talc take steps leps to make mako trials In a a very ex manner and to establish schools for teaching tho the turo turo ot or beet sugar near The minister ter will apportion among the tho different departments acres of oland land on which Jt will bo be lleces necessary necessary sary to grow crow beet b et roots for tho the entire consumption of The Th proper officers trill Mil be b appointed to sea that the tho th cui cul- cul cultivators I tI deliver their proportions The Tho Tho minister ter will also advise the tho cultivators that the tho growing pf bee beet roots toots Improves es Iho the soil ant and that the residue of ot the th fab tab tab- furnishes in an excellent food for cattle On March 23 28 1811 Napoleon Issued tho the following decree ap- ap ap francs franco fran 8 for the Ule theof th establishment of nix IX technical beet sugar RUgal schools compelling the peasant farmers to plant pant acres acre to sugar beets the tho following season um I On January H 15 1812 Napoleon I IssUed a decree providing that students should be selected from tho schools chool of ot J phar pharo pharmacy pharmacy macy and try and trans trans- transferred transferred transferred to the technical sugar beet schools ho bo had established hed the th year ear before that acres should 1 bo Le sown to tl beets that thai fin financial ancial Inducements bo be extended to scientists to further perfect the tho process ot or extraction extinction and to capitalists to engage In tho the man man- manufacture manufacture and for tho the immediate Immediato erection of four imperial beet beet- sugar factories As fi a r res result lt of o Napoleons Napoleon's far far far- farsightedness sightedness Franco France produced e 1 dur dur- d r- r year no great world worl 1 war one one- pound one of or beet pound bags bacs sugar No doubt as a result of the world war and realizing rc the tir importance Im- Im Importance Im Importance and value of sugar In times of o emergency Great Bri- Bri Britain Bri Britain tain also has abandoned abandoned its traditional traditional tree free trade trado policy In the matter of ot sugar and Is setting selling out in earnest to develop the production of ot its sugar ugar at home In 1912 the English government gave gatte OOOO toward the tho establishment establishment of the tho beet sugar In- In Industry Industry In Industry in Great Grent Britain The Tho first fa factory tory was vas located at Kelham and tho the government itself is go go- go Inc co-Inc I log Ing to assist Englishmen n to build factories so th they y can cin can produce sil- sil augar gar and not be again nt at the mercy ot of other countries in time of ot war warLord Lord one of ot the th load lead loading leadIng load inc Ing figures In British Industry said sald In a recent Interview The Tir war Val awakened English English- Englishmen Englishmen Englishmen men to the necessity of ot Ine Ing at least a good tood part vart o ot of their sugar at home homo The Tho cutting oft off of tho the supplies they had been re re- re receiving re from Germany and Aus- Aus tria Aus tria Hungary and the difficulty of o f obtaining sugar sug-ar from other quarters tel's showed the th danger of ot depending de- de depending de pending upon foreign countries for an nn Important foodstuff like lIko sugar DOUBLE U S To encourage the tho development of the tho British beet boet sugar indus Indus- Industry industry try Improve the th condition of British British farmers and anil provide York work In British factories for the tiny Un- Unemployed Un Unemployed employed the th government has hos ha placed a bounty on home grown sugar which Is to run for tor ten years ears beginning at Us per cwt or about cents a pound at pre present ent and gradually ally ally declining after acter four tour years This Is more than that double the th tar tar- tar I protection extended to Amerl can sugar l producers and enables the tho British sugar companies i to pay a 0 high hl h rate to tho the farmers ll for their sugar beets As a result of ot this policy no nol noless l less ss than five new beet bed factories fac- fac factories fac factories tories will be he built In England In time for operation next fall probablY twice that number will willbO willbe bO be ready re by the tho end cnA ot Qt next heat year I To t 0 hope eventually to 10 bo be able abl to produce roduco enough sugar In Enl Eng Eng- England land and the colonies to supply all nil ou our needs said Raid Lord Lorl Inver In nabs Wo We Vo recognize that the general adoption of ot sugar loet growing will bring brine about a a great Improvement In the condition of British farmers and will provide employment for tor II a n largo large number nl of workers besides bc the advantage It will 11 give elvo to consumers ot of 0 not noL hs having to depend on foreign f countries tom for their sugar supply and not sendIng abroad huge hUle hUK sum sums of ot money moiry every year ear to pay for sugar Bugar bought rom from rom abroad POSSIBILITY snow The Tho United States Slates Imports Import ap ap- ap ly 80 SO per cant cont of ot its ita G- G ton annual annual consumption In 1920 after alter tho the domestic beet b sugar had boon been practically nil lilt sold our 11 purchase ot or sugar front from Cuba alono alone totaled an In 11 addition to this our sugar from other countries cost coat us or a Il total Of ot over over a billion dollars I mention the above figures merely to show the for development of o an industry which 11 is not only valuable front from so 80 many many angles hut but vital In time e tim ot of I Beet Boet tug sugar r companies have havo done much In Utah and Idaho to develop this Industry and likewise I the sugar beet Industry has done much to dev develop lop these theao states to From an arid desert to a II fertile empire in 75 years Is the story of Utah and I give the sugar In- In Indu industry In Industry du try much credit for this phen phen- phenomenal phen- phen phenomenal phenomenal gro growth th From one ono sugar factory in 1891 l to 18 10 1 in 1922 this Industry at the present time brings moro more outside mone money Into the state than any other Industry Out of every 1000 Inhabitants In Ia the two states stales 17 are arc em- em em employed the year around in lit the tho thoI beet sugar Industry Two hundred thirty square mils miles acres of o Utah Ulab and Idaho farms are devoted do each year to sugar beets More Moro than 50 GO per cent of nil all the money obtained from the sale Rale of sugar Is paid out to the tho farmers for tor beets and this money paid to tho the farmers Is but one onel l rt of their Income from the tho sugar beet crop The products by-products lIng or of beet tops lops pulp and molasses ma e excellent fee feed d f for r live live- live livestock stock It has been estimated estimated that thelio products by from an aver Il average average age aero acre of beets properly fed to lIve livestock tock In a balanced ration will produce SOO OO pounds of ot meat The by products alone from at an acre of beets will produce as mud much human food in the tho form of m meat t swill as DS will I the tho entire product of an acre of ot corn rOlt SOIL OIL Sugar Su ar beets greatly Improve soil fertility when planted In ht ro- ro rotation ro rotation 0 tation with other crops The beets take nothing from the tho soil but lea lI lUmus In tho form of small rootlets Enormous amounts tare paid out each |
