Arizona republican., 1901-04-30
BEET SUGAR PLANT
Benefits That Would Accrue to the
 Salt River Valley.

There is now an opportunity for this valley to secure the location of a j00- ton beet sugar factory, including re- nnery. The cost of the plant will be not less than S5O0.0O0. which. operated. to its capacity. would produce over S50O.OOO worth per annum of sugar at the pres cnt market price,
 All of the benefits to be derived from the acquisition of such an enterprise would be sons what difficult to approxi- mate at first sight. The first outlay for the plant would be the smalle9t part of the advantages secured. The enterprise would require a very considerable acre age of land and thousands of people to produce the beets and operate the plant. and even then We do not begin to express the full measure of it's bene- dts. All classes of busaness and of peo- ple would be benefited.
 There Is now a remarkabl develop ment cf beet sugar business in this country, the total capacity of factories has trebed in two years. California has six. one of which has a capacity of POGO ton. per day: New Mexico two. and even Colorado has two. Arizona might have had one or two if hei people had reached out for the business.
 IL would c.sem that no section of our country is better adapted to the busi- ness. and it is claimed by our agricu!- tural experts t,.a: a factory could he operated here per thrse-fourths of the entire year. It is known that our oeets grown in the winter mature perfectly as well az in thc slnmer
 One conspicuous result of the location of beet sugar plants. in sections favor able for the business is that the value gf land has appreciated largely and im- mediately, in some cases over one hum dred per cent.
 A, to the profits to the farmer. $ per ton is a fair price for standard beet which contains i2 per cent of sugar. and an additional 90 cents per ton is. paid for each additional One-half per cent of sugar in the beet. Tracts of sugar beets planted at the Arizona agricultural experiment station showed a result as high as IS per cent of sugar in valley grown beetN and yield of eighteen tons per acre. This shows a pos.ible revenue to the farmer of SlO0 per acre for his crop. In addition, how ever to the money the farmer gets for his beets. it is customary for factories to give to the farmers the pulp without charge. Where a factory can be operat- sd for so long a period as i@ possible here this by-product becomes an i'm pOrtant factor It l.. valuable for fat tening stock when used alone. but when used in connection with alfalfa it makes feed of unsurpassed excellence.
 1t will be of interest to farmers to know that the best beets for this pur- pose can be grown on less water than any crop grown in the valley. One fourth of the amount of water neces- gary for alfalfa would damage sugar beeta.
 The offer k a jO0-ton plant in con sideration of a, contribution of suit able site for the plant of not less than thirty acres and two thousand acres of first-class beet land with water rights.
 This comes from the company making The offer through a very prominent businees man in the east. Mr. n. s. Brown of Peoria. III.
 To decide whether or not the people of this valle" have enterprise enough to grasp such proposition a meeting will be held at O'Ncill hall. at Adams Street