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Show MORE FACTORIES NEEDED TO SUPPLY THE BIG DEMAND EORBEET SUGAR Increased food production and con. , servatiou has been the slogan upon the part of government experts and officials of National and State for the past year while the "back to the farm" cry has been preached by all, for the past ten years. "Raise more food stuffs" has been the constant cry upon the part of the prei, the pulpit and the people. To encourage this, governments, national, state and municipal have aided the people in the furnishing of need and in many instances ground on which to plant foodstuffs. In line, with this desire there have been formed several compaulee In Utah for the purpose of increasing the beet sugar output and they are now appealing to the people to sign contracts for beet acreage sufficient lo care for the new factories building and to be built to care for the increased in-creased demand for sugar. There can be no question but what there is ample room in Utah for several sev-eral more beet sugar factories. In the United States there Is not now produced more than one-fourth of what the country consumes of this necessity of life, to say nothing of supplying our dependent Allies with this product. Utah in particular is the one favored favor-ed spot for the growing of sugar beets the land, the climate and wa. ler are all that can be desired; the sugar is demanded at homo and abroad and the erection of more beet sugar factories is demanded. In 1916 the beet sugar product 'of Utah was practically 233.000,001) pounds. This was the product of thirteen factories and of this product about 18 per cent wus consumed In Utah and adjoining states, tho balance bal-ance being shipped to points on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Texas, Tex-as, Oklahoma ana otnor eastern points. Utah farmers raise more tons of beets per acre than docs any other farmer in the United States, the average av-erage yield per acre for a five-year period being 12.50 tons as compared with 11.38 in Colorado, 9.79 in California Cal-ifornia and 8.44 in Michigan and 10.13 Tor the entire United Slates. There are places in Utah, notably in the Sanpete valley, where the produc. Hon is 15 tons per acre. In addition -the farmer in Utah in the rotating of his land with beets giving him tint I tops and pulp for feed for his stock has an advantage over farmers of most of the slates. Tho earning power pow-er of the beet lands in the state i over six per cent on land that is valued val-ued at $8 00 per acre. Two new factories are now being built, one In Delta and another at Moroni, while a third one Is to bo erected in the Gunnison valley near Gunnison, this latter to bo ready lo care for (he crop of 1918 and for this latter plant contracts have already been signed up for 6154 acres for a period of seven years and this acreage acre-age it is said will bo largely increased. increas-ed. In this valley there are nearly 8000 people now engBged in farming and stork raising wno, like all other localities where beet siignr plants are proposed, are, eulhiifliaHtic over the coming of the new plant. The plant at Delta is a long distance dis-tance from any other factory and tlui acreage which will supply It, Is unusually un-usually large, contniels for more than 1 0.n'HJ. aercH having been signed, sign-ed, il is raid. The plant at Moroni Is forty miles north of Hie proponed plant at Gunnison and Hih plant lit Elsinore in a like distance from Gunnison. Gun-nison. In thR location of factories in Ibis Rcction of the state care has been observed so that the acreage Irilmlary lo one. plant does not encroach en-croach upon Hie other. The need of more beet sugar fae-'ories fae-'ories is apparent, when the fact is known thai Ihe United Slates Imported Im-ported last year more (ban live and one-half billion pounds of sugar. which vhh valued at $209,000,001). P.eet sugar manufacture is now the second industry of Utah. Why not, push it to first place? There is room 'ami In plenty In tho state for more sugar factories and there is need for many more beel farmers. i |