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Show H:4 sucar interests are reaching fefSd covering a wide area. The M iWnatcd of Ogden is now operatic operat-ic ffiour states and of late the Utah-lififho Utah-lififho has invaded Texas. A message K Tubbock, Texas, says: .nnc million dollars is to bo ex--n iIlSS by tho Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. in W BKScting a heot sugar faotory in y 'Wk? 82!tc Tho site will be some point Wfhe shallow water belt of west Tex-P Tex-P Tfther at Plainview or Lubbock. It 'Rotated C. W. Nibley, genoral mana- j gor of tho company, accompanied by several high officials of tho Atchison, Topokn & Santa Fe railroad, recently mad a personal inspection and investigation inves-tigation of tho sugar beet growing lands of this part of the state where experiments In growing the beets have been conducted with marked success during tho last two or three years. On their recent trip tills party was also accompanied by P. W. Madson, an expert ex-pert beet grower of Provo, Utah Ho had familiarized himself with tho char acter of the soil and the irrigation possibilities of the shallow water belt. He found that several hundred wells ranging In depth from 10 to 100 feet upon which centrifugal pumps are installed, in-stalled, are giving an abundant supply sup-ply of water for irrigation purposes around Plainview, Lubbock and In other oth-er localities. Some of these wells furnish fur-nish a sufficient supply of water to Irrigate Ir-rigate more than 160 acres each. Chemists Chem-ists of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company have made a series of tests of the sugar beets grown around Plainview and they show that their sugar content con-tent is above the average. While Mr. Nibley and his party were at Plain-view Plain-view they met with representative business men and a formal proposition was offered by Mr. Nibley that if as much as 7,000 acres of beets could be guaranteed to bo grown each year for five years, this company will erect and operate a factory at that place. In the event this guarantee is not accomplished accom-plished by tho farmers around Plain- view, tho movement to secure tho proposed pro-posed sugar factory for Lubbock will be pushed. It is stated that should tho farmers In tho Plainview section not be able to plant the entire 7,000 acres for next year, the company will buy all tho beets produced during that year and ship them to its nearest factory. fac-tory. "Tho Holley Sugar company of Hol-loy, Hol-loy, Colo., which operates numerous beet sugar factories in Colorado, plans to build another factor' at a point In tho upper valley, of (he Rio Grande above El Paso at or in the vicinity of Las Cruces, N. M. This company has completed its preliminary plans for the building of the propoaed factory and there are being grown this year a large acreage of sugar beets In the upper up-per valley which will be purchased and shipped to one of the company's other plants in Colorado. Tho new plant, however, will be ready for operation In time to handle next year's crop, It is stated. S. W. Sinshejmer, general manager of the Holly Sugar company, tH recently made a personal Inspection of IH the growing sugar beet crop around IH Las Cruces and expressed himself as IH well pleased with the situation " jH |