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Show SUGAR BEET HARVESTING UNDER WAY Harvesting of sugar beets in Sanpete San-pete and Sevier counties will begin Friday, according to announcement announce-ment Tuesday by W. Harvey Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company with main offices in Salt' Lake. The company's plant at Cen-terfield, Cen-terfield, Sanpete County, which serves Sanpete and Sevier counties exclusively in the handling of beets and production of sugar, will begin active operations Saturday. Mr. Ross announced that his plant expects ex-pects to handle from 65,000 to 70,000 tons of beets, comprising, according ac-cording to government report, about one-seventh of all the sugar beets to be harvested in the state during the present season. About 5500,000 will be distributed distribu-ted by the company during its operations oper-ations this year to over 800 beet growers and about $100,000 to its 250 employees Mr. Ross stated. |