Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-09
MINES AND MANUFACTURES
III, Sugar Factory and Utah ard
Colorado BeetS.
THE MANUFACTURERS ORGANIZE.
Mr.. Green Wants Time.-The Bullion.
Beck starts.-Rcally and
Mining Notes.
THE MANUFACTURERS ORGANIZE.


dov. to attend the directors meeting
M, afternoon. In response 10 an in.
oulry as to the outlook for the present
season, Mfr. Cutler said!
owe have n most excellent prospect
Cor the coming year. We now have
contracts out for 5000 acres OF
bee,s with several places yet to
bsat from which will increase
mi, amount. The outlook IL TINT
usWIll have three times the quantity
affects to work on that wo had last
year The season promises TO be good,
and unless there should be an unusual.
ly long and hot spell towards the close
ofsummer, there win DO nothing to
complain Of"
"What class OF farmers are making
contracts this year--the same with
whom you engaged last year,"
ayes; as rule the same men, and
Others on whom We can rely. Those
who have tried II are putting In n
larger acreage this year than before.
In one place this season We have II
men who will put In 20 acres each,
while last year they had only
five acrea each. Where we had con.
tracts last season, the average was two
and half acres each, but this year the
average IN double that amount.
"rhe farmers arc beginning to real.
lie that they can make much more
out Of beets than out Of wheat, In
places where the former can be raised.
For instance In Utah county, when
farmers get educated up to raising and
caring for beets, they can make four
times As much ns they can from wheat,
aud can better afford 10 buy the latter
commodity from Snnpotu, where the
locality IA better for wheat than beets."
"As the iarmon gain experience,
are the profits to them moro 10 any
marked oxteni?"
"They are. Indeed. When the
farmers arc educated up 10 the wurk,Hs
said, they will be able to raise beets
at n cost to themselves Of not TO exceed
$3.50 per ton. All they got over that
will be clear profit, above the cost Of
their labor. can illustrate II by my
own experience. In 1892 we raised
our beets nj Tho factory for tifty per
cent less than we did In 1891. This
was because we knew more about the
work. We had learned to systematlze
II, and knew just what was wanted.
We will do better this year, just rs our
knowledge has increased.
"Why, speaking OF new beginners
a. the works, will name ono item.
When the beets were plowed up, tho
farm laborers would use Jack kniier,
or some such implement, and woulI
hack, hack, hack, I'LL the tops Were Oh.
But u was soon shown by experience
that II paid TO get cutter like part Of
an old scythe blade, with handle on,
that would top the beet at one blow.
Then there was material saving In
this Item alone, and so IL Ia with good
many other features. This IL shown
in the production per acre. Tho fret
year the average was s tons; last year
II was 10 tons. At the same ratio OF
increase, which was brought by
better understanding Of the way to
handle the beete, the average this year
should be IL! tons. think that the
average eau he raised to and kept at
10 tons per acre"
SIS tho supply NO limited In Utah
"Oh, no! We have good supply
here; enough to keep us going pretty
well, but not sufficient TO put the
factory to Its full capacity. Tue way
We came TO 20 to Colorado was
llis; They sent 10 w from the
UncOmpahgre valley, anu in-
quirod whether, while they were
demonstrating 20 capitalists that the
lAImNFa ha. lad 20
produce beet crops several successive
years, we w uld purchase what they
raised. We replied that we would, anu
offered to help them into proper un-
derslnnding Of the methods OF cultiva.
Ton, suitable soil, etc.
"For this purpose We accompanied
thelr representatives down there, and
gave the people what information We
could. We held conventions In Un-
oompahgte, Delta and Mesa counties,
and explained matters In detail. The
people there combined, the farmers
agreeing to put In II certain acreage OF
heols, and the business men putting
up an amount oi cash TO make good
The loss TO the farmers.
There will no u loss to them the
INST year, because the cost OF shipment
over the railway to Lehi Is such that
inc Colorado people will not,
IN an experimental year, produce
sufficient quantity To pay them, at
the price at which they must sell
10 meet freighting rates. But with the
experience OF the first year, In the
method aud manner nf cultivation,
lhey VIII by the second season be edu-
called up 10 the point where heet-raising
WIN pay them. There il prac.
ucal element in the work. You
can give man full instruc.
ZION In the theory OF branch
u mechanism, and put the best OF
lools In his hands, but when he com.
mences to use them his movements are
SLOW and awkward. With practice,
however, he soon becomes au expert II
ne has thoroughly understood the
theory. So 1t is with raining beets;
you can explain how II ~, but the
farmer must get some practice at IL
before he knows himself. Then he gets
along without difficulty"
Then You think, as a question OF
finances, that beet raising Ia better
Than wheat raising in the vicinity of
The iactory?O
VI know II Ia, three or four times
S'er anywhere within reach OF
1pS nm cost for shipping tho beels.
iue latlners VIII soon learn this, too.
iAet' many OF those who planted
u'e,s Iast year know 1t already, and
. KY ~ why they are planting again
THE REFINERY.
Nolhing OF definite nature bas as
~ been arranged between the trus.