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Show ,JU RUN IS SUCCESSFUL. Pocatello. Idaho. Jan. 18. According Accord-ing to the report just Issued of the Burley sugar factory, the last season wa? successful in every way. An average of 640 tons of beets was utilized util-ized each day, which was 140 tons more than the supposed capacity of the plant. During the season of '- - about two months and a half that the plant wa running, 48.000 tons of beets wore used and 145 000 bags of sugar were made. About 13,000 carloads car-loads of beets were shipped from the districts around Burley. Oakley. Kim-berley, Kim-berley, Rupert, Paul and Hansen. The beets averaged from ten to eighteen tons to the acre, and the farmer received $5 per ton at the factory, and about $250,000 was paid to the farmers and employment given to T'.O men. The pulp Is being used for fattening at least 100(i head of cattle. cat-tle. The acreage next year in the beet Industry will be greatly in creased. oo |