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Show MONDAY IS PAYDAY ; AT SUGAR FACTORY i (. G- Stringham, manager of the peoples Sugar Company, paid a fly-lug fly-lug visit to the factory and the conu-tf conu-tf this week arranging the last details de-tails for the Companys pay day for jets which comes on Monday the litb. He reports harvesting conditions con-ditions in Sanpete far better than in the northern counties as there seems to have been much less rain fall here llan in Salt Lake or Utah Counties. In nearly all districts he says the beets are now out of the ground and j addition to the many large piles at the receiving stations the farmers bave resorted to 'digging and piling id the farms. The Compans factory at Moroni is sported to be operating considerably considerab-ly better this season than ever before lid it Is hoped that before cutting a over the mills operation will be about up to 600 tons per day. With inch a capicity Mr. Stringham says at 6000 acres of beets will be need-id need-id next year to provide a normal factory run. Only 4,250 acres were planted for the company last spring. The Company expects 4 0000 tons of tots this year for which it has contracted con-tracted to pay a minimum of $500,-iOO $500,-iOO with an dditional sum of the lid of January conditioned upon the average price of sugar at seaboard sea-board being above $11.00 per 100 pounds. On Monday next the beet growers for the company will receive about ?250,000 which will tome at a time and under conditions lorely needed to relieve a faninclal (train that has been most trying to our local banks and tradisman. With this payment also ' taxes can be taken car of and other pressing obligations met. It is safe to say that Sanpete County would have leriously suffered the coming winter were it not for our sugar beet industry in-dustry which now comes to the rescue res-cue after, a practical failure of our wool, sheep, cattle and wheat industries in-dustries to bring us relief. Aa a result of the experiences this fear our Sanpete farmers are paying more attention to the sugar beet in-Industry in-Industry and are taking advantage of these pleasant days In prepring tad for a material increased acreage of sugr beets next year. |