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Show Gunnison Valley Sugar Company Mails Checks Totaling $225,000 To Beet Growers Initial Payment of $5.25 Per Ion Brings Joy nunniaw Valley News, pub-Itfiia pub-Itfiia b' K'ilrd W' clurr Jllt !vweoi the bltrsest Ki:'t-s tluil rli been scattered throughout Stu-.-,e srl Sevier counties this ycar Unas PWA r anything went J,c nmls Wednesday. This rtft was nothins else than J'JJo.iMO. ivdod into individual checks ami Mdressd to the beets-rowers of the -,ann Sugar company. Thurs-div Thurs-div inarrdns ever grower was wear-ini wear-ini a smile that outclassed that: ci jir Rcreevelt when the latter was jaicmed that he had ben reelected credent of the United Slates, iappy growers, happy wives and j.py children, visiting stores ai'.i sops, replenished the larder and lie Tardrobe and made the by-sur.der by-sur.der vender with happiness. The payment Wednesday, in-tcMtc in-tcMtc the e 511:11 ws :'T beets, delivered tc the factory up to November 3rd, and the total of per tan. instead of $5.00, as rcportec in this paper last week. tjs rtceived by the many hundreds hun-dreds cf growers. In keepin; with the usual custom the Uimmson Sugii C-mpai. made the initial sjcect far in advance of Uw are stipulated in the contracts. , "Factory heads reported little care than half of the crop lias tea dug. Cold and freezing weaker, wea-ker, particlarly in the momuiRs, tiered up dicgirrg to a degree, but r.i bright sunshiny days and n.ttesucn early in the morning, jr.irers have kept on the job. and it is e-pected the digging in the mm fields will be completed by it? last of this week. The few .cacsar.tr acres, it is expected t2 be completed by the last o: e coming week. "One of the encouraging features fea-tures of the beet crop grown this year is the fact that the average acre tonnage has reached the tush p:int, producing an average of 15 Km per acre. This is the highest point reached since the factory sis suited and is due, primarily, to the blight resisting seed used, the favorable climatic conditions prevailing, and the abundant supply H warer for irrigation purposes. Other than encountering a shortage short-age in field labor just at the height of harvesting, operations at the trill have gone ahead with the ben of success. The big mill kepi it full speed sliced en an average of 1950 tons every twenty-fcur hours. No serious breakdowns and ccrtented working crews keep the plant gcing steadily, establishing cew rec.rds fcr the operating company." |