Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-08 | Page 7 | Beet Harvest is near Close

BEET HARVEST ; IS NEAR CLOSE Ninety Per Cent Out of Ground: Yield Over Normal Ninety per cent of the susar beets j In the L'tah and Idaho fields have been dug and are being rushed t th-I th-I various sugar factories In tJtah and Idaho, according to vuv President s. M ECdgelJ of the Amalgamated Sugar ; company j in Utah and Idaho this season pie crop tor the Amalgamated win be above normal, Mr. Bdgell states, More than 580,000 tons of beets will bo II in- Bled by the varloul plants of tut Amalgamated this .season. "idgglng of bteets i" various parts ,of the two state will bo completed during ihe next two weeks," said Mr. I Bdgell, "Out factories arc working night and day and from present Indications Indi-cations tho crop will exceed that of 1919. "During the present month the Amalgamated Sugar company will p.i 'to farmers df Utah and Idaho more than M ami not) for be.-ts. which is one 'of the largest payments ever made In jthe history of the compan."