Show 1 ERECTION WILL WILLs 1 s START AT ONCE Amalgamated Amalgam a ted Preparing for Now New Plant in inI I Missoula 1 Construction of a 0 beet sugar fac- fac factory ac- ac A j 1 tory with an investment of r will be started at once In Missoula MIs oula I Mont by the Amalgamated Sugar I company removal of one of the factories fac- fac I t tories In either Utah or Idaho being planned according to Joseph Eccles general manager What factory will be removed remond has hasI I not been decided said Eccles this morning There Is a surplus of sugar factories in both Utah and 1 Idaho based upon possible acreage and tonnage On this tills basis It seems 1 necessary not only to remove remo one plant but possibly mo more morg than that number One of these Surplus lus plants will be selected The Amalgamated Amal mated Sugar company has purchased the site formerly oc occupied oc- oc occupIed occupied by a Great Western sugar fac fac- factory factory factory tory in Missoula Only the huge hu e smokestack of the old factory re remains re- re remaIns remains mains but this wit will be used In con- con 4 with Ith the new factory Shift Shift- Shifting ShiftIng ing tag of the Bitter Root branch line of o the Northern Pacific railroad so better bettu beet shipping facilities will be provided pro for the new factory is one of the important nt steps that will be Ix taken The operations In western Mon Mon- Montana Montana tana tano are arc purely pioneering but we feel will be successful said Eccles The Great Western operated a plant there years ago it being dis dis- dismantled dismantled dismantled plant mantled nine years ears ago However conditions have changed somewhat since that Ume time We believe the soil irrigation and climatic conditions are right and that the farmers In west west- western western ern em Montana realize the value Luc of a o sugar lugar factory to them Assurance has been given ghen of sufficient acreage to warrant the factory being butt built and d operated Operation of three Amalgamated Amal mated plants has been started tills this week the Twin Falls end and Burley plants In Idaho being the first to slice beets The SmithfIeld plant is now In op- op op op-I and the run In m the other two plants to be operated op rated one more moreIn morein moreIn In Cache valley alley besides the big Og Og- Ogden Ogden den plant will be started before October 15 The Amalgamated com com- company company company pany has eight factories three factories three in Idaho and five fI in Utah r Of this number five will wUl be operated this year jear ear |