The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1900-10-11
CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Norfolk Factory Begins Its
Annual Grind.
VERY PR0PITITI0US START.

VERY PROPl1 lTlOUS START.
An Autumn Event Of Much Interest to
Norfolk Citizens sugar win he
Made before Morning Many Of the EN-
pioyos are old Hands.
From Tucsday's Daily.
1t is with pleasant a%nticipations that
the people of Norfolk look forward to
the opening of the sugar campaign.
The announcement that the factory has
started is to them n regular autumn
feature in the commercial world and
they are not unjustiiied in giving to it
more consideration than would be ac-
corded commercial announcements of
far more Importance to the country at
large.
The announcement mean that the
greatest manufacturing institution in
the vicinity, if not in this section of the
which thousands of dollars will find
their way into the channels of trade Of
Norfolk through the pay received by
farmers for their crop and laborers for
their work.
The sugar campaign is on at n propi-
tious time of the year. When the
farmers rush work for the summer has
ceased he can turn his attention to
harvesting his crop of beets. 1t is so
with laboring men Demand for their
help is ordinarily at low ebb during the
winter months and were it not for the
sugar factory it is probable that many
would be out of employment the greater
part Of the season, and the factory is
therefore of Importance to these classes
prosperity.
This annual event took place this
morning and n few minutes after Z
o'clock the first installment of s%accbarine
roots passed from the washer into the
slicer. The factory whistle hcralded the
commencement by long and vigorous
toots which sounded the joy felt in the
hearts of those directly and indirectly
interested i'll the institution.
The machinery started with n smooth.
ness and regularity that IA most pleas
ing to those responsible for its condition.
The start was as though the machinery
had been idle but a few hours instead
of months, so free was it from friction
of any kind.
The juices of the first beets of this
morning were, this noon, we'll Oh their
course toward the completed product,
and the first pan of sugar will have been
made before another morning, while it
is probable that a shipment of the fin
ished product will be made tomorrow
~evening.
The factory has been receiving beets
by team and rail for more than a week.
Owing to the excellent ripening weather
of the past few days, the roots are
testing very satisfactorily, both to the
management and the growers, while
the tonnage promises exceedingly well.
The prospects are that the campaign
will be of the usual duration and it may
be even longer than ordinary owing 70
the fact that the crop produced at
Grand Island is being worked up here.
One reason that everything about the
factory was in such excellent order for
the start is that the management and
those who labor there throughout the
year have given such careful attention
to the details of the business and as with
each passing year they become more
familiar with the needs Of the institution
they are quick to see and remedy any
fault in machinery or arrangement.
The force of workmen employed is of
the usual size and it speaks well for the
merits of the business that a very large
per cent of them are experienced en-
ployes, who were eager for the start of
the campaign. They like the work and
the pay and many of them surrendered
steady positions to take a place at the
factory.
The new men employed are very few
and, under the direction of competent
overseers and working with other men
of experience, they take hold in a man.
ner that might well lead an onlooker to
believe them experienced.
The institution has hung out its sign
of a propitious start, and that is a'grace.
full line Of black smoke curling from the
tall smoke stack and visible for miles in
almost any direction, This morning il
extended far over the country in q
southeasterly direction, but owing to q
different condition of the atmosphere
and an absence of breeze it has since as.
cended almosts perpendicularly.
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