The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-09-30
SUGAR beet INDUSTRY
VERY Satisfactory Reports Being Re-
celVed from Samples Sent for Tests.
The YAKIMA INVESTMENT COMPANY
wtii,Not be Re.Organized.-A Novel
Method OF Drying Fruit with Ex-
,ceilent. Resnlts.-A Large Numbsr
OF. HOBBS DisfiEuve Each other.

There is q gentleman in North. Y akims
who has Q matter in hand that means
more to the people OF this city than any
other proposition that has ever been
placed before Us. His mare 10 F. Z. Deer.
inghof and he is carefully looking into
the matter of sugar beet culture and Sc.
curing data that will some day decide the
question OF locating . factory at this
point. From his boyhood, spent in Ger.
many, he has been directly in contac,
with the sugar beet industry and is IA
milisr with it's every detail. He is here
now a. the representative Of the Northern
Pacific Railway company and Is just in
receipt Of his first returns from samples
Of beets sent in for testing. He has sub
mitted samples grown by J. b. Berg, j.
W. Young, w. T. Clark, W. E. Law
renee, E. Remy, II. Linse and J. +.
Eschbsch. Returns from the last two
show lS 40 per cent and q $40 per
cent of sugar respectively. and 90 per
cent and 9l34 per cent OF purity. Mr..
Deeringhof says that this 10 very good
showing and that as far as he has been
able to find out there seems to be no
serious obstacle In the way OF this in
dustry in the Yakima valley.
1t is said that the sugar beet attsins it's
highest perfection in those countries
which have a mild climate, combined
with the greatest amount of sunlight,
with minimum of air moisture, and for
this reason Eastern Oregon and Eastern
Washin gton, California, Utah and New
Mexico grow the richest and purest sugar
beets in the world.
Those parts of our semi-arid region
where irrigation 10 possible, which are
not too far north, and which are not OF
too great elevation, are the ideal places
for the profitable prosecution Of the beet
sugar business. Utah, Idaho, Eastern
Oregon, New Mexico, California, Colora-
do and Arizona, according to Professor
WILEY, of the United States department
of agriculture, and formerly director Of
the sugar beet experiment station in Ne
brasks, are certain to become great beet
sugar producing districts and we believe
central Washington will also be included
in it.
The primary requirement for sugar
beet culture 10 mean temperature Of 70
to 80 degrees during June, July and Aug
vst. This given, short. mild winter, a
sandy loan soil which will produce In
dian corn. wheat or potatoes, will under
proper cultivation produce a good crop Of
sugar beets. The cost OF growing an acre
of beets depends, of course, on cost Of
land and cost Of labor; but Professor
Wiley says that a.net profit of from IS to
$l5 per acre may be looked for from the
sugar beet in localities not far distant
from factory, when the proper methods
OF culture are pursued; but much larger
profits have been obtained by practical
beetgrowers in Nebraska and California.
The yield under normal conditions should
be fifteen tons OF beet roots to the acre,
although twenty-five tons is not an un-
usual crop.
Sugar, once q luxury, is now become a
necessity, and during the last twenty
three years the consumption OF suga. has
increased in England 80 per cent, in
Austria l07 per cent, in France l42 per
cent, in Germany l59 per cent. and in
the United States 278 per cent-statistics
that show that for many years there is
no danger that our native production OF
sugar from the root will outrun consump.
ton. II the development OF the sugar
beet industry is as rspidly successful as
anticipated by Professor Wiley, twenty
years from this date will not find us pay.
ing $40, 10000 yearly for beet sugar to
Germany, a country which does all in its
power to exclude American farm products
from its markets.