Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-09-06
North Dakota Beet Sugar Company
Organized at Fargo Meeting
Saturday.
First Factory Will be Built in James.
town and Will Have 500 Tons
Capacity.
Prospectus Issued by Company Show.
ing the Profits Made by Beet
Growers

The North Dakota Beet Sugar co.
was organized at a meeting held IN
Fargo Saturday afternoon. The COM
pany will operate with d capital OF
$500. 600 and the first mill will be
erected at jamestown and, it is eN-
pected. will be ready to care for the
next seasons crop of sugar beets.
The mill have a capacity Of 800 tons
of beets daily, and in order 70 supply
the mill 5000 acres will be devoted to
sugar beets the coming year. Ten
tons to the acre is a profitable crop
of sugar bects, but in several OF the
beet raising sections of Minnesota the
yield runs up to eighteen tons and
more. The minimum price paid for
beets is 81 per ton for beets that will
yield II per cent'sugar. a bonus will
be paid for beetS that run over that.
From the 800 tons Of beets that will
be used daily in the new factory there
will be a bi-product Of l25 tons of
excellent stock food which can be kept
indefinitely if stored in a silo. This
will be sold at so cents ton.
The prospectus issued by the COM
pany gives some interesting facts and
figures regarding the beet sugar in
dustry and the profits to be derived
from such an enterprise. 1t is stated
that the United States is at present
producing but II per cent OF the
amount of sugar consumed by the peo-
ple of the country, and it has been
shown that over 800, 100000 has been
paid per year for sugar imported for
over one decade, and most OF this
amount has been paid for European
made sugar. There are now thirty
two beet sugar factories in the United
States. and several more being built
for the campaign of 1900. But with
the most favorable conditions the out
put Of these factories cannot exceed 5
per cent of the consumption or the
United States. 1t has been estimated
bv sugar experts that it would require
over 500 factories, of an average capac-
ity of 500 tons per day, to supply the
consumption OF the United States
alone. and it would require at least %
to 30 new factories each year to sup
ply the increased consumption.
Numerous authorities are cited
showing that the soil of vast area of
North Dakota is superior to that of
any other state of the union for the
cultivation of the sugar beet. Secre-
tary Wilson of the department OF
agriculture of the United States, in a
special report on the beet sugar indus
try, says there is no question of the
ability of North and South Dakota to
grow beets of fine saccharine strength.
Secretary j. G. Hamilton Of the OK
nard Beet Sugar company, which oper-
ates four large factories, makes the
statement that the two states named
are better adapted to the raising OF
beets than Europe. He says it is not
nearly SO difficult to successfully raise
sugar beetS as sugar cane. Prof.
Ladd of the n. d. Agricultural col
lepe, states that the soil of the James
River valley is admirably adapted to
the raising of beets. Beets he says,
require rain during the early part or
the season, but for August, September
and October but little is required.
Experiments in 1891 with samples OF
heets grown in the central portion OF
the state showed an average OF 1880
per cent of sugar and SO per cent. OF
nurity. In 1898 the district showed
an average of 1879 with 50 as the &C.
efficient of purity and in 1899 l4.2o
was the per cent. of sugar and S4 the
co-e ticient of purity.
For many years, it is stated, the
people of North Dakota have been
sending out of the state more than
$1,000, 600 to pay for sugar which they
use of which 45 per cent. at least. was
made from sugar beets. Last year we
sent nearly 81, ,5OO,0 away for sugar
which could as we'll have been kept
within the state furnishing more pro-
itable employment to farmers and in
creasing the amount Of taxable prop
erty.
In 1922. J. Nierling cultivated an
acre of sugar beets for the Oxnards.
The land was located in the hills and
was sandy. These beets were tested
and found to contain an average OF IA
per cent. of sugar with co-efficient OF