Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-11-30

| proper care was taken of tho crop, th,
yield reaches 20 tons per acre and over
1 Twelve 10 fifteen tons per acre are quite
general. And " per cent. OF sugar quite
/ the rule. Most growers are jubilant over
the profits they have made this year.
y proposition is pending to build q
sugaI factory at i.oycland, Colo. a com.
iniltcc OF a dozen representative citizen.
was sent 10 Rocky Ford few weeks ago
to see If n sugar factory was good thing
TO encourage. A lengthy rcpor, was
made highly favorable 10 the Industry,
included in which was interviews with
many farmers. OF which farmers state.
| ncnts the committee says:
1T will be noticed that almost without OK.
ccption those seen were enthusiastic over
the results OF their ttst years efforts"
We would state that we cOnvcr-cd with u
great many more parties. and all gave about
OF the treatment from the factory, ana n
great many stated that the factory hns rails, Il
tue price OF bccts above the contracts with
out the asking"
I'VE are convinced that no industry cnn bc
established IN northern Colorado that would
result III bringing more money into the dis.
trICt or would give ~ much profit to farmers
ana business men generally"
Mayor Baker of Fort Collins, who was
one OF the committee writes:
I'VE found great enthusiasm at Rocky Ford
and the farmers well pleased with the beer
sugar enterprise. We drove to the fields "a nd
saw for ourselves the wonderful large ctops
ana questioned the farmers as you will see
by our unanimous report printed In this
paper"
While the first year has been a marked
success the second, with an equally favor
able seasonabe, promises to surpass it,
Growers this spring undertook beet cul-
ture only i'll a halt-hearted way, as they
doubted the financial results. Quite n
number cut their acreage down consider
ably. The country now has many appli-
cations to increase their acreage for the
next four years. Most of the parties who
curtailed their acreage this season regret
II now, as they have found that bects
have paid them better than anv other
crop raised
When it was arranged to build n fac
tory at Rocky Ford Mr. Henry r. Oxnard
decided that one of $50 tons daily capac-
ity would be large enough. But after in
vestigating the locality more fully he de.
cided to increase the capacity of the fac
tory TO 900 tons. The highest run this
season for ~ hours was 1916 tons. With
very few changes, the capacity can be in
creased to 400 tons per day. For this
reason the acreage required next year
N''' ~ pi piaNbtdllS lHICC times HS large as
TINS year When Mr.. Hamilton was here
last winter, he called attention to the
TACT that for the first year it was the COM
pany's desire TO have the acreage compar
atiVely small, and after the farmer had
made success the first year the acreage
would be increased.
DnrlrS the sugar making campaign of
1901 Is the conpany's intention to opcr
ate the factory from Sept. to the middle
had. ~
From the above it will be seen that A
largely increased acreage will be demand.
ed next ,year-larger than will probably
the valley. New settlers can at once find
prohtabie employment in beet culture and
the entire business community will be
benefited by the influx of new people.
The more Immigration the better the
fContinusd m R;,ak kD.1