Show sugar beet factory for uinta basin would increase cash income writer advocates Ado cates raising of 0 bugar beets for uinta ilasin basin cash ansh crop by J JF F HOYT i if the uinta basin is to be J land worth living in less tons ot tie lie droughts Jr of several years ago and nd of this year shout at u store and becu secure e ail aa avalia available bc water as far as possible adequate water means cash to pay for the projects built and planned pia nned other good sites and sluices are available last spring water went over the moon lake spillway and aown jovn the colorado rier because of lack of storage facilities it the basin users fail to get then theft claims to water proved up on oi or fail to secure title to the water needed for the thousands thousand 3 of acres of farm land not now adequately supplied other sections eions will take the water water costs vater in other parts of the state and elsewhere is worth up t to 0 to per acre if we sie elie going to live here we cannot sit down and say our lands will not pay for water costing 0 10 to 40 or 50 per acre if we do not get it at the available costs other sections that can get values of 50 0 an acre for it will secure it for their lands the immediate fm mediate problem is to find ways boget to get greater returns from our ian lands s to enable us to afford the price of securing and storing water in other words we must have some cash crop we have been trying to make shift by growing cattle and poultry and there is much more that thai can be done with those lines at present practically ail ai our livestock goes out to market as feeder stuff to be fattened by others who get some top prices while we have to take inferior prices pays to grow suga beets farmers outside find it pays to grow sugar beets on their lands which are worth un to per acre or more average yields are 10 to 18 tons per acre available figures show that carbon i county growers in in 1937 averaged 11 tons worth 57 50 per acre for their crop sugar beets the same year yielded as high as 26 tons per acre in the garland region ol oi boxelder Box elder county worth at the average price received that year of about 5 per ton al 11 L p per er acre the government paid most growers an additional bonus president james R raw ings ol of the utah beet growers arvae s association himself a israe grower of sugar beets at draper told the writer that it cost about 25 pel pei acre for seed thinning hoeing digging topping and delivering to the factory leaving the farmer for use of his land and water plowing fertilizing and cultivating about 35 per acre even on a low yield like that in carbon county A bushel per acre yield d of wheat at our prices brings about 18 per acre for land water and all the work valuable byproducts by products products byproducts by from sugar beets such as the tops pulp and syrup have been declared to be worth about as much for feeding and fattening livestock as an average crop of corn this ads about the value of a crop of wheat to the income received from the sugar mill for the boots beets tests and continued growing by some farmers indicate uinta basin lands are very promising for sugar beet growing investigations made over the past year and a haaf ha if have convinced the writer that there is a very good chance to get a sugar factory in the uinta basin provided the farmers get interested sufficiently to sign un for and to grow the needed beets |