The San Francisco call., 1898-01-13
MILLIONS
 FOR SUGAR
 BEET LAND A Hundred and Fifty Thousand Acres Contracted For. Will Immediately Be Put Under the Proper
 Cultivation. Present Tenants May Cause a Delay by Refusing to
 Take Advice. THREE BIG FACTORIES. Work Will Be Started at Once to Push the Plant to Com
 ple6On.
Present Tenants May Cause a Delay by Refusing to
 Take Advice.
THREE BIG F FACTORIES.
Work Will Be Started at Once to Push the Plant to Com
 ple6On.

A cablegram was received yesterday by Homer Wilson, announcing the ar rival in London of Willard E. Green, who recently left for Europe in the in terests of the big sugar-beet syndicate which has been negotiating for lands in the Sacramento Valley. The cable gram announced that the contracts which have been secured were entire ly satisfactory to those connected with the venture, and now all that remains is to secure the proper persons to cul- tivate the beetS.
 Contracts have been signed by which 150,000 acres of land near Chico, Marys- vile and Red Bluff has been secured and the work of erecting three immense sugar factories will be started at once. The syndicate has a capital of 15,000, 900, and intends making the venture a success if money and experience can do 1t.
 The land secured embodies tracts from the Glenn ranch, the Bidwell ranch, the Phelan estate, and the Stanford estate, with other tracts in smaller quantities. The principal trou- ble over the immediate installation of the work on all the land arises from the tenants who are disposed to reject the advice offered them regarding the proper manner of growing the sugar beet
 The mana gers for the syndicate have procured the best beet seed and eX- perienced men to teach the tenants how to properly cultivate the root, but there Is a disposition to resent this as unwarranted interference, and the ten ants have already given so much trou- ble that it is possible that the syndi- cate may be compelled to look else where for people to properly take care of their interests, as 1t is cOntended that unless the beets receive the best of attention they will be unfit for su- gar-making.
 A large acreage has already been put under cultivation necessary to take 1t from grain land to beet land, and it will be seeded down as soon as spring opens. It will take a year before all arrangements are competed and the factories are ready to take beets and in the meanwhile the tenants who are now on the land or those who will re- place them will be shown everything that is necessary for their part of the work.
 MT. Wilson was seen In his office in the Mills building yesterday, but de- clined to talk on the subject further than to say that the syndicate was ready to go ahead with the project and the venture would be pushed to com pletion as rapidly as possible. The exact location of the three big factories has not yet been definitely decided, but this will be done immediately on the re- turn of MT. Green from his consulta- tion with the European members of the syndicate.
 Colonel c. C. Royce of Chico, who is manager for part of the lands secured by the syndicate, was in the city yes terday. at the California. He takes great interest in the matter and is sanguine that the lands secured by the syndicate will raise the best beets in the State, as he thinks the soil there is peculiarly adapted for such roots. He showed Messrs. Green and Wilson over the lands in question several days ago and became very enthusiastic over the subject
 Those who are interested in the mat ter feel that the returns from the ven ture after the first year will give very satisfactory dividends to those who have invested their money and will also give a heavy sinking fund for the pur- pose of extending the plants if that procedure is found advisable. It is ex- pected that the full acreage which has been secured will be seeded down this spring unless unforeseen difficulties arise on account of the action of the tenants, but should this occur the man. agers of the business are prepared to replace all who are dissatisfied