Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20
4 SUGAR CONVENTION
Meeting Of Business Men and Farm
ers Interested to Be Held at
Clear Lake.
Sugar Best Growing and Sugar
Manufacture to Be Discussed
The Outlook.
Capital Anxious to Take Hold Of
the Project Factory For
Marshalltown.
Special to Times-Republican.

ASkSSAoek
Ames. Sept. 20.-Iowa is to have a
beet sugar convention, to be held at
Clear Lake, October 1s. This date was
selected as the time for the convention
at a conference held by Professor C. F..
Curtiss, director of the Iowa expert
ment bureau of the Iowa State College.
this city; c. F. Saylor. special agent of
the United States department of agri-
culture and in charge of the beet sugar
experiments, and others interested in
the industry, especially as it refers to
Iowa.
To the Clear Lake convention every
business man and farmer of the state is
invited, and good delegations are espe-
cially wanted where the people have
shown interest in the work of growing
beets and in the manufacture of the
product.
The convention will be the greatest
meeting Of its kind ever held in the
state. AT the time all phases of sugar
beet growing and sugar manufacture
will be discussed in an exhaustive man
ner. Hon. James Wilson, secretary of
agriculture, has promised to be pres
ent and will address the convention.
The speakers will include several of
the prominent sugar men of the coun-
try. Bishop Thomas Cutler, of Lehigh,
Utah, manager of the Lehigh sugar
factory, and one of the best posted
beet sugar men IN the country, is ex-
pected to be present, as is also Mr..
Dyer, of Los Alimitos. Cal, and Mr.. r.
NJ. Allen, of Ames, Neb, president of
the American Beet Sugar Growers AS
ISOLATION. Ames is the city where there
has recently been erected one of the
largest beet sugar factories in the
United States.
| In speaking of the convention to a
lTimes-Republican correspondent Mr.
Saylor said: II am very much inter
ested in Iowa as beet sugar center
as are also many of the leading sugar
men of other states. They all have theii
eyes on Iowa, and from what / car
! learn over the state the people of Iowa
have their eyes on Marshalltown
which I consider the best place in Iowa
| to start a sugar factory. I know o.
capital that is ready now to be placed
into four factories in Iowa. and all tina
|
about Marshalltown will have to do is
to show their interest and start the bal
rolling. They can have the capital a:
soon as the right spirit is shown. Suga
men look toward Iowa as the best plac
for a sure crop in the entire country
This may seem overdrawn. but it i
true nevertheless. Iowa should tax
the final lead in the industry. The out
look was never so good as now for tn
development of the industry. 1t is
/ fact that a few years ago, when thu
beet sugar industry was talked throug
out the state, capital was not interested
4 in the project, but now the situation il
different and capital is deeply inter
ested. In fact, when the matter was W
before there was little capital availabl,
for anything, much less project tina
at the time was considered somewha
doubtful.
The promotion of the Clear Lake
convention will be under the specia
supervision of Mr.. Curtiss, who will b.
assisted by Mr.. saylor. Both of TIL,
gentlemen left last night for Chicago
and from there MIR. Saylor will leav
for New York and Washington, visit
ing en- route in several Ohio cities. H
Will return to Iowa to the convention
and after it is over will leave for TIL
i Hawaiian islands, where he will stud.
the sugar industry during the comm,
winter months, much along the sam
lines as he did in Porto Rico last win