The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1901-06-26
PRESIDENT OXNARD HERE
Investigating Conditions and Laying
Plans for Sugar Beet Factory.
TO BE BUILT NEAR HAMILTON
If Tests Prove Satisfactory-C Confer
With Bozeman Scientists Mrs.
Daily Interested.

Henry T. Oxnard and wife of Ok
nard, CAL; NJ. Wienrich of Yonkers,
N. Y, and Will Thornton of Butte
arrived here Monday, and are stop
ping at the Ravalli. Mr.. Oxnard Is
vice president of the American Beet
Sugar Co. MIR. Thornton is brother
of Mrs. Oxnard, and Mr.. Wienrich is
locator of factory sites for the COM
p2ny. The gentlemen spent yester-
day and today driving about the val
ley and investigating its adaptability
for beet culture and other conditions.
Yesterday they were joined by Prof.
F. W. Traphagen, chemist, and Prof.
R. A. Cooley, entomologlst OF the u
s. Experiment station at Bozeman,
and who will give them the benefit Of
their years Of patient research and
Investigations. The party will prob
ably return to Butte tomorrow.
Mr.. Oxnard, who has been very
busy since his arrival examining
plans and Investigating matters, ex-
presses himself as delighted with this
beautiful valley. He says it is .un-
doubtedly the natural home Of the
beet. He and the rest of the party
are highly pleased with the stands sef
beets.
From what can be lear led at this
time there is littfss ddoubt that f6e, FAC fac
tory will be built. 1t all depends
upon the tests that the beets will un--
dergo next October. If satisfactory,
the machinery will be ordered and
the building begun in the early fall.
| Thus will another of the late Mar
Gus Daly's cherished plans for the up
building OF the state, and which Mrs.
Daily has so carefully nurtured, be
successfully consummated.
| Mr.. Oxnard is the original sugar
beet promoter of America, having
first recognized the possibilities OF
raising beet sugar, and he built the
first factories in the country, at Nor
folk and Grand Island, Neb., in 1889
! Before that time no effort had been
made to introduce beet sugar on q
commercial scale, although the Unit
ed States imported more than hun
1 dred million dollars worth of sugar
annually, and the beet industry o.
, Europe has already reached colossal
proportions.
The machinery for the first factory
was imported from Germany, as wa,
also every pound seed Of used in thu
y fields. So great has been the pro
] gress in the industry that all tn,
machinery for the latar factories is
, made in the United States, and bette
than the original patterns. The larges
!, factories IN the country are Tia
. Spreckles plant IN California, and tn,
i IOxnard factory at Oxnard They
: have capacity of about 1000 ton
: of beets daily.
t Coming down moye particularly t
5 the local interest in sugar beet cul
: ture, Mr.. Oxnard SAID:
Il Il believe that the ideal country T,
# the growth of the sugar beet is til
4 arid regions of the west, where tn
d climate is dry, and the ground can b
: irrigated at will. The beet require
just this combination to make j;
best growth. There are, in my opit
+ ion twenty states Of the union whic
could cultivate beets on commerce,
sca!e, with great profit.
s1t is strange, indeed, that the pee
pie of America who led the world
all other branches Of agricultur
have not sooner taken up the prol
= lem OF making their own sugar. Th
sugar beet industry is not taking
leap in the dark for it is proven to b
great success. Ia the twelve year
since our tirss factories were starte
RI in Nebraska, the production of bss
sugar has about reached 100000 tol
~ annually or seven per cent ,of I'll
total quantity consumat in the cou.
TRY. 1t is worth more than $l5,0Ot
"A 600 year. and the whole industl
lhco l,oc,, t,rilf ,,,, in 10 Years Vha