The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-08-26
SUGAR Beet.

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ranch. What show deos the Appeal
think there is for sugar refinery in
Nevada under free trade policy? Claus
Spreckles who knows something about
the business says there is none-WADs-
WORTH DISPATCH.
The parties contemplating the intro
duction of beet sugar culture into New
ada are experienced men in the business
and well-known to the writer, Mr. Chas.
| Dehil, of San Francisco, is one of the
| principle movers in the scheme and is
believer in free coinage.
Over year ago in discussing the
question of beet culture, we mentioned
the fact to him that the per cent Of
saccarine matter in beets was much
| greater in Nevada raised beets than in
i those of California. He was much SUR
prised and somewhat incredulous. He
was soon convinced by reports kindly
furnished by the Nevada Experimental
Station and asked us to place him in
communication with parties who had
land to dispose of for beet culture. We
placed him in communication with Rob-
ert Blossom of Battle Mountain and c.
c. Powning of Reno. One of the rea-
sons he had for investing was the low
price OF land in Nevada and another
was the hope OF better times to be
brought about by the resumption OF free
coinage. He considered at that time the
Republican party was ready to resume
free coinage but when the National Con-
vention met and decided for gold Mr..
Dehil and his sugar beet company had
set back. His hackers regarded the
risking of SO much capital in beet sugar
as hazardous unless times improve with
free silver. They are now waiting until
free coinage becomes fixed fact before
investing. AS it is 10000 acres of land
in Battle Mountain and %, 900 in Washoe
County are awaiting the result of the
Presidential election, for developments.
Free silver means rise in sugar with
out the necessity of any Mckinley pro-
lection because poor people viii have
money to buy the best grades OF sugar
and increased demand will advance the
price, says the Appeal.
Full many gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste it's sweetness on the desert air.
And Charles Dehil may be a sugar
king in embryo, but we are much better
satisfied with what "is'' than with what
"may be" when it comes to business
propositions and life's stern realities.
Claus Spreckes "is;" Charles :Dehil
''may be-" Dehil who is at best pos
sibility wants free coinage; Spreckes
who is a certainty wants beets and pro-
lection. Dehil regards the investment
as hazardous; Spreckles goes right a.
head investing. Dehil talks and
Spreckles does the work.
When the editor of the Appeal return
ed from st. Louis he stopped at Battle
Mountain and when he reached home
he wrote an article about the Blossom
ranch, its 10000 acres and the proba-
bility of planting it to sugar beets.
We have at hand the. contracts the
people of Salinas are making with
Spreckles and. Spreckles is making with
the people OF Salinas. Let us see what
this man who wants protection could do
for Nevada, its people and the Blossom
ranch of 10000 acres on the same terms
he gives Salinas.
He would expend for beets $24 900 per
day for 100 days in the year, or 81, 400, 900.
He would expend $4,000 per day for
labor, fuel, etc., for the same period, or
81 $1,000. All this money would be
distributed in the community, and in
labor alone this ranch alone would en-
ploy at 81 per day as many men as are
today working in the Comstock mines
while the returns for the beets alone
would distribute more money than is
paid in wages to all the miners in the
State of Nevada today.
| This is what could be done with one
ranch under protection. There are other
ranches.
MI. Spreckles says: "But want two
things, beets and protection. The form
er l will make the sugar out of and the
latter will need until the industry has
become fully established. We must
have some law whereby the sugar man.
ufacturer in the United States who pays
So day or more to his laboring men