The Delta independent., 1901-05-03

few DAYS ago on the possibilities of
the sugar beet in Colorado. We make
the following extracts from the ad-
dress:
L, has been unquestionably demon
strated that Colorado produces the
best and highest grade sugar beet of
any place in the world. The Colorado
sugar beet also grows the greatest
tonnage per acre. it has the highest de-
gree OF purity and the greatest per-
centage of Succhar.ne matter The
Sugar City factory reports eighteen
per cent. saccharine matter. with eighty
six per cent. purity for Sugar City
beets. In Germany ii is found very
profitable 10 raise beets having ten
per cent. Saccharine matter ana seven
ty-iive per cent. purity. so prohtable
that over one-half of the sugar con-
sumed in this country comes from Ger
many.
The standard basis upon which bcetS
are purchased at factories in TINS
country is twelve per cent. saccharine
matter At the Grand Junction fac
tory. beet growers are offered S4.21 per
ton for beets having twelve per cent.
saccharne matter. This price is grad
uatcd up so that they pay $50 for
beetS with twenty-five per cent. sac
charnc matter | have taken the re-
ports of several sugar-beet growers i'll
the vicinity of the Rocky Ford fac
tory and the Sugar City factory. and |
find that the beet growers substantial
ly agree that there is $50 an acre net
to the farmer in growing beets. This
is the concensus of opinion of nine
teen farmers. Several farmers in the
Arkansas valley averaged much more
than this. Real estate values in the
ri rf a n
lishment of the sugar beet factories
in that vicinity, have increased forty
to sixty per cent. in value. Land that
heretofore could produce from 81 to
SO per acre in alfalfa now produces
$50 to SO per acre in beets. To IL
lustrate what one factory will do for
a locality. you have only TO look at
Sugar City. In less than one years
span that enterprising community has
grown from Il bare spot on bald
prairie into beautiful little city hav
ing 100 residences. II factory pay roll
averaging $4,000 per month. manu-
featuring last year 3.OOO,OOO pounds
of sugar. This year they are trebling
their capacity. by means of great stor-
age bins. and expect to manufacture
1p,OO0.OOO pounds of sugar. The
money paid to the farmers Of the Ar
kansas valley this season will run in
to the millions. l do not wish to weary
you with statistics. have only re-
ferred to them in order to emphasize
the great future there is for Colorado
in the sugar-beet industry.
1t would require fourteen factories
alone to supply our home demand. In
Il little more than year $4.OOO.OOO
has been invested in beet-sugar enter
prises in Colorado and another million
10 orr
factories will be prepared to handle
the sugar-beet crop of 1901. Nearly 81
100000 will be paid 10 Colorado farm
ers for sugar beets in 1901 and the
sugar companies will make from 3d.
100000 to S4.OOOO.OOO worth of sugar.
Colorado, having such an advantage
over other sugar-beet producing sec
tiOns, ought naturally to have over
fifty factories busily mt work. and in
stead of $2.OOO.OOO paid to the farm
ers. there could be paid about $5O,OOO,-
900. Instead of 5000 farm hands there
would be 10000 required. The amount
of money to be distributed in pay rolls
for the employees of the factories will
he. in the near future, from 100000
to S5OO.OOO per month. 1t has taken
some time to convince the people of
the value of Colorado soil and climate
in producing the sugar beet. but it is
now known, and men capable Of judg-
ing have investigated. and, having be-
come satisfied that Colorado soil and
climate are exceptionally well adapt
ed to the cultivation of the sugar beet,
they are investing their money, build
ing factories and negotiating for sugar
beet lands. There Is no difficulty now
in the raising of money for the build
ing of factories providing you can get
the farmers to grow the beets. The
farmers are gradually seeing how
much greater the profit is in growing
sugar beets than in any other prod
uct.
Denver needs more pay rolls and Il
pOpulous farming community. No
money Is worth as much TO city as
pay roll money. 1t is quickly and oft
en- distributed.
One factory distributes about $4,000
per month to labor alone. Twenty
factories means 100000 per month TO
labor A much larger sum than this is
paid to the farmers. Add to this the
amount paid for lime, sulphur and
other materials used in manufacturing,
then add to this the amount paid for
machinery, tools and implements,
which all ought to be made from our
own iron, and you will have what Is al
ways needed to build up and maintain
great city, namely: big pay rolls and
prosperous and densely settled
farming community.
What does all this mean to the Den
yer real estate man and the owners of
real estatel 1t does not need a Col
onel Sellers to figure out what twenty
factories in northern Colorado and IN
the vicinity of Denver would mean
for our city. 1t would mean many
many thousands increase in popula-
ton II would Inean many more
homes to be built and occupied. II
would mean n vast increase in tine
value of our real estate.
1t would mean the erection of grea;
factories to manufacture sugar-beet
machinery and farming implements
for the growing OF sugar beets. II
would mean increased trade for oTI
merchants. My time is too limited foi