Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-17
< IN SIJGAR BEET RAISING.
If Hooper Objects TO Some Statements Made BY Mr.
f'"' r,,es as TO the Inferiodty OF Bees Raised in
Weber and Davis Counties.

farmer will pay n they raise beets this
wear. making a nice net profit OF near
$4,000. To be more exact for the years
1898 and 1925 the ogden Sugar factory
has made a clean profit and when the
present supply OF sugar Is sold viii nave
uaid their shareholders dividend OF
near 500 900 In two years, upon the out
lay OF the small sum OF SS6O,OOO.
Mr.. Eccles calls this enormous
profit only limited profit, How
much profit I'm the name or
heaven does he expect to make when
The farmers produce beets with sugar In
them II appC rs strange TO me now
The company could pay the farmers
something like $4,000 for sugar bets
in 1Sg0-contalning scarcely any
sugar and not topped and then
extract from said beets Slso,-
600 worth Of sugar These figures do
not lie.
II needs a sugar factory ten miles
southwest Of the present one, else
railroad to the ogden sugar factory
When the people OF Syracuse, South
Hooper and Hooper, Weber county,
gave a water right from the Hooper
canal worth fifty thousand dollars 10
the sugar company 1t was with the un-
derstanding that they would build down
the canal far enough to be convenient
TO the donors. so that they could haul
their beets to the factory at a profit
AS Il IL now, we hardly get enough TO
pay for raising them, and We actually
haul them to the factory free.
Allow me to suggest to Mr. Eccles
that he had better modify his declara-
ton that next fall they intend to take
a sample OF beets from the wagon and
test them before the man can unload,
and II found wanting in sugar not to
accept them AT all, You yourself and
no other man with spoonful OF brains
will make a contract upon any such
terms. DO you not see what an open
opportunity II Is for the receiver II he
has a spite or prejudice against man
as Is so often the case, with men as
well as women. Such man could Sc
lect half dozen scrubhy beets for a
test. and not only condemn his load,
but all his crop at home. II would be
better TO specify In Nur contract
blanks, that the contract Is void II
beets are planted on what is known
here as mineral land-that Is, II con-
tains too much salt ana saleratas 10
raise sugar beets, Then select good
men OF good judgement 10 plant, with
instructions not TO plant any land
that shows mineral on the top Of
the ground
Some Of your principal shareholders
have been my friends for forty years,
and as a friend | advise you TO raise
the price Of beets for your own and
the farmers benefit, and do II quickly,
before warm work begins, aud the beet
lands are sown 90 other crops / have
not heard a single farmer say he Will
raise beets under your proposition; but
everyone | have heard mention beet
raising say they viii not take any
contract. Make the farmers OF America
prosperous and Il viii b. a genuine
prosperity for every class As a matter
Of fact this false thing called by the
Hannaites prosperity is only tinselled
thing, that will crumble to atoms al the
dictation OF the gold bugs just when
ever they will II so.
Yours truly,
EDWARD +. MANN.
Hooper. Utah, March 9Th, 1900