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Show THE SUGAR BUSINESS ENGAGES GEO. E. - BROWN! ' George E. Browning, formerly connected con-nected with the Browning Brothers sporting goods store of this city, has gone into the sugar manufacturing business and ho states that, he will devote his entire time to the enterprise. enter-prise. A corporation, known as the People's Sugar company, has been formed and a capitalization of $765,-000 $765,-000 authorized, headquarters for the company being in Salt Lake. The company has decided to build a sugar factory in the northern part of Sanpete county, and to that end have contracted for about 4,500 acres of sugar beets for the year 1917. Building of the factory will begin at an early time and It will be ready to handle the sugar beets of tho district dis-trict next year. Field men have already al-ready tested beets raised in the country coun-try around the proposed factory and they report that it is a sugar beet section. sec-tion. It is not expected that Mr. Browning Brown-ing will move from Ogden, but he will spend much of his time at the factory site while the plant is in course of construction and after it Is in operation oper-ation his duties as president will call him away from home frequently. Mr. Browning is president of the new company, associated with him being John Strlngham, vice president; Samuel Sam-uel Stark, treasurer, N. G. String-ham, String-ham, secretary, who, with C. L. Whitney, Whit-ney, H. O. Beauman and Lewis Anderson, An-derson, form the directorate. The two last named directors are residents resi-dents of Mount Pleasant and Manti. The other officers and directors, besides be-sides Mr. Browning, reside in Salt Lake. President Browning states that the farmers of San Pete county have favored fav-ored a sugar factory In their section of country for a number of years and he is of the opinion that this is the opportune time to establish the plant. The factory will be situated In the vicinity of Moroni and Mount Pleasant and close to the Rio Grande and San Pete Valley railroads. |
