The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1892-10-29
THE BEET SUGAR CONVENTION.
rhrss Hundred would-bs Beet Raisers
In Attendance.

convention met in Denver on the 23rd for
| three days session to consider the subject oil
sugar production from beets.
Mayor Rogers warmly welcomed the three
| hundred delegates to the city. The following
| officers were elected: Chairman, A. c. Fiski
drst vice chairman, T. B. Buchanan; second
Vice chairman, A. l.. Kellogg; third vice
chairman, John Z. Leet, secretary, Henri X.
| Foster; assistant secretary, q. NJ. Hall.
Mr.. NJ. A. Lunn, editor OF the Beet Sugar
Industry Of Lincoln, Nebraska, was intro
iuced by the chairman and made speech In
which he stated that there now six beet
| sugar factories In the country.
Henry Holder OF Yuma County was next
called upon tn address the convention and
give the result of his experiments in raising
sugar bcets. He stated that for the Yuma
Plateau beets seemed TO he natural crop.
He had planted some seed and sent some Of
bis beets to Washington for analysis. The
result was 80 per cent. sugar. The French
beets show about 4.26 per cent. sugar. He
thought his experiments were very satlsfac-
tory for the American desert sunshiny days
| and cool nights are what the sugar beet needs
and that is what the Yuma plateau has
| throughout the season.
Mr.. c. ii. Jennings, manager of the Lehi
I factory in Utah, said: The cornerstone OF
our factory was laid in April OF last year, and
| before the year WAS over, we produced ,lOO,-
1OO pounds OF beet sugar, which was sold at
| An average OF about D cents per pound in the
| markets Of Salt Lake City and Ogden. Beets
| Fan be grown in Colorado as well as In Utah"
He said that bects should not be grown on
| alkal land.
Peter Magnes OF Arapahoc County related
| his experience In raising sugar beets. He
said: II have raised at the rate OF seventy
tons to an acre. At l4Jf per cent, l4l9 per
cent. OF 600 pounds is go pounds, and 10
tons 10000 pounds. But say 30 tons TO an
acre, it would be IA, 500 pounds to an acre"
| Thursday morning the chairman announced
the appointment OF the following committee
| On resolutions: George W. Swink, Otero
County; j. W. Bacon, Boulder; George A.
Watson, Prower5; H. W. Wakefield, Phillips;
II. j. GARRETT, Larimer; r. +. Coffin, Boulder;
John Churches, Jefferson; A. d. Hudnall
Bent; J. S. Green, Pueblo. A large number
Of resolutions were referred to It for consider
| alton.
Several experts In beet culture spoke OF
| their experience, and Prof. Hamilton OF
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In variou, parts of tn. state. and the SUGAR
,hlpped to one large central factory for re-
dnenent. The answer was given that with
the present state of scientific discoveries and
refining machinery. the process of extraction
va. too cYnensivc tn he pursued ON a small
| scale.
-Un Friday morning the committee on reso-
iutions reported. The course Of Congress in
aiding the beet sugar industry was commend
ed the agricultural counties In the State
we're urged to form beet sugar associations.
resolution urging Congress TO cedc the
arid lands to the States aroused some discus
sion, but was adopted.
The resolution asking the State to offer
bounty for the making OF beet sugar brought
forth diversity of opinions, and the follow.
Ing was finally agreed upon as compromise:
| "Rcsolped That we favor n State bounty