Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-26
SUGAR CONVENTION.
Meeting of Business Men and Farm
ers to be Held at Clear Lake.
OUTLOOK FOR BEET SUGAR GROWING
Capital Anxious to Take Hold of the
Project-Factoryf for Marshnlltown
Many Prominent Men
Interested.

Ames, Sept. 22.--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. r..
Curtiss, director of the Iowa expert
lnent bureau OF the Iowa State college.
this city; c. L. Saylor, special agent of
the United States department OF agri-
culture and i'll charge of the beet SUI
gar 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 es-
pecially wanted where the people have
shown interest in the work of growing
betts 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
manner. Hon. James Wilson, secreta-
ry of agriculture, has promised to be
present and will address the conven-
ton. The speakers will include sever
al of the prominent sugar men of the
country. 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 expected. to be present. as is also Mr..
Dyer, of Los Alinitos, Cal, and II. NJ.
Allen, of Ames, Neb., president of the
American Beet Sugar Growers Asso-
citation. 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 Mr..
Saylor said: 81 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
their eyes on Iowa, and from what I
can learn over the state the people of
Iowa have their eyes on Marshalltown,
which l consider the best place in To-
wa to start a sugar factory. / know
of capital that is ready now to be
placed into four factories in Iowa, and
all that the business men and farmers
in and about Marshalltown will have
to do, is to show their interest and
start the ball rolling. They can have
the capital as soon as the right spirit
is shown. Sugar me- look toward 10
wa as the best place for sure crop in
| the entire country. This may seem
overdrawn, but it is true nevertheless
| Iowa should take the final lead in the
| industry. The outlook was never SC
good as now for the development OF
the industry. 1t is fact that few
years ago, when the beet sugar il,
dustry was talked throughout The
state, capital was not interested in the
project, but now the situation is diff
ferent and capital is deeply interested
In fact, when the matter was up be-
fore there was little capital available
| for anything, much less project that
/ at the time was considered somewhat
doubtful"
The promotion of the Clear Lake
convention will be under the special
supervision of Mr.. Curtiss, who will be
assisted by Mr.. Saylor. Both of the
gentlemen left last night for Chicago
and from there Mr.. Saylor will leave
for New York and Washington, visit.
ing enroute in several Ohio cities. He
will return to Iowa to the convention
and after it is over will leave for the
Hawaiian islands, where he will study
the sugar industry during the coming
winter months, much along the same
lines as he did in Porto Rico last win.
| ter.