Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
The Sugar Beet Committee Held a
Meeting Yesterday.
SELECT SECRETARY AND SOLICITOR
Seven Names Added to the Business
Mems Committee-WNl at Once
Proceed With the Work.
In Hand.
from saturdays Daily.1

The business mems committee app
pointed at a recent business
mems meeting for the pur-
pose of interesting the far
mers in this locality in beet culture
with the view of securing a sugar beet
factory in Ottumwa, held meeting
at the Office of Chairman w. S. Chris
tie at 4:3O o'clock yesterday after
noon. Emil Fecbt was made perma-
nent secretary of the committee, which
was fitting considering the interest
that gentleman displays in the subject
and the business ability he will bring
to the work, 1t was decided to add
seven names to the committee, which
now brings the number up to fifteen.
Accordingly Otto Bremhorst, Morgan
Griswold, Julius Fecht, w. II. Keat-
ing, j. B. Mowrey, Il. B. Gephart and
A. L. Reynolds were added to the list
Ed. French was appointed as solicitor
to solicit the acreage and superintend
the culture under the direction of Mr.
Gibson, the agent of the Iowa Sugar
Beet Developing company, and will al
so act as corresponding secretary for
the committee. One significant feat.
sure of the meeting yesterday was the
interest they took in the proposition.
They believe, and the belief is based
upon statistics, that the sugar beet
industry in Iowa and Wapello county
has a great future. In one sense The
matter is not an. experiment because
beets have been successfully grown in
Wapello county for, five years past in
small experimental patches, as they
have in every. county in Iowa. Tests
have been made of the product each
year and the final average places Wa
pello county in the list with the bes1
of them. When it is considered thai
nearly the. same conditions prevail il
Iowa as obtain in Saxony, the greatest
sugar beet producing country in the
world, the belief that it. has an i'm
mense future before it is not withou'
foundation. Again Michigan, it is sale
cannot compare with Iowa in soil anl
climatic conditions necessary for thu
production of .beets, and in that state
nearly a dozen factories have beer
built at an enormous cost to work VI
the product in that state.
z. III. Gibson, of Des ,Moines, the rep
resentative of the Iowa Sugar Beet De
sSAoPAhs3 SoaPahJ3 NHASA 10 Cd)1IdllZtt
for $1O,Ooo,OOO, was in the city yester
day in conference with the bushes
mems committee and he stated to ;
Courier reporter that Mr.. Emery, th'
president of the company, had sait
that nowhere in the state of Iowa hat
he met with such reception as HI
did in Ottumwa and that the interes
displayed would merit and get Xix
amount of recognition. Mr.. Emery i
able to carry out any contract Ii,
might make and is financially respon
sible for any sum he might incur il
the development of his pet theory tina
Iowa can and will raise sugar beets o
a quality that will warrant the estah
lishment of factories all over the state
If Wapello county demonstrates tina
conditions are right, there is no rea
son why the first sugar beet factor,
in the state should not be erected ii
Ottumwa, and this is the promise til
promoters hold out in good faith.