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Show WHAT A SUGAR BEET FACTORY MEANS TO NORTH SANPETE CO. To build, equip and maintain a sugar factory of 450 tons daily will require an expenditure of $750,000. The farmers alone will receive in cash for raising appriximately 54,000 tons of beets $280,000. The question of labor in the running of the mill during the campaign will reach the handsome sum of $45,000 to $50,000 The county will receive at least $5,-00 $5,-00 to $10,000 in taxes, a most important im-portant item in the running of the county. It will furnish directly or indirectly labor for at least 150 men and boys for 100 -days of the year and at a season when summer work is usually over. Every town in tlw county would first be given the right of employment, with a favor given to cities furnishing the factory the greatest acreage of beets. This same rule will apply not only in the selection selec-tion of labor, but in the distribution of the beet pulp to the farmers for the feeding of stock during the win- ter and -early spring, which is one, of the many advantages to the farm- j er and stock raisers. Many other ad-; vantages might be cited why farmers and business men should get behind this movement and boost for a sugar beet factory for North Sanpete. We are not asking the farmers to build the factory and permit us to run it, for not a share of stock is on sale; we only ask you to raise the beets, for which we give you a better price on board the cars than any other sugar beet factory in the intermountain country. We are meeting with some opposition from the old and reliable type of dyspeptic or chronic town kickers, but it does not hurt, as but little attention is paid to their emply air speeches. Mount Pleasant would be a model town if she did not have a few knockers. But the factory will be built, despite the calamity howlers, howl-ers, and the people of Sanpete will be greatly benefited. W. C. A. Smoot, Jr. |