The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-10-17
TOR THE SUGAR ACTORY!'
A Strong United Pull Will Bring Owosso and
Shiawassee County the Biggest Beet Sugar
Factory Ever Erected at ore Time in This
State.
Capital is Ready if OWosso and the County
Will Do Their Part.

ago and while the cost amounts tt
something the bargain will prove 6
wonderfully good one in the long run
1t is the opportunity of the century fol
!, Owosso and Shiawassee county. Fol-
the city the immediate part which will
be built up by the presence of the fac
tory will be limited largely to the west
side but that is but small part after all
of the benefits of having the factory
located in this county-in fact the small
est The greatest part of the benefits
of having the factory located in this
city will go directly to the farms and
the farm srs of the county. The
different villages and cities of the county
will then be benefited indirectly be-
cause they are always benefited when
the farmers of the county get good, big,
cash prices for their produce The
prosperity of any different trade or oc-
cupation simply cannot keep itself all in
that trade or occupation. 1t is bound
to spread to the rest. So in the case
with the sugar beet industry the profit
more than in any other case spreads to
every person in the vicinity of a factory
and for many miles aronnd, for the
freight rates on beets are low enough to
make Shipping them few miles prefer
able to hauling in many instances. But
education along this line is not needed
as much as it was year ago.
All of the experience of other places
goes to show that in the case of the city
where the factory is located, while it
gets an advantage far greater than from
many other sources from the presence
of beet sugar factory, it has also to
share the advantages with the surround
ing country and the smaller towns and
cities as well. Not every farmer who
raises beets ever gets to the city where
the factory is located. He ships his
beets and gets his check and never gets
out of his home village in lots of cases.
1t is estimated that from half to two
thirds the beneft-even aside from that
going directly to the farmers of the
county-is distributed about the county
outside of the city where the factory is
located. Realizing this the gentlemen
to whom has fallen the task of manag-
ing the details of the business so far
have asked the supervisors of the county
to appropriate sufficient sum to pay
for the securing of the acreage necessary
to guarantee the factory. The PROPOSE
ton has been presented to many of
the representative farmers of the
county who have already expressed
themselves as being favorably inclined
to such means of making sure of this
enterprise. 1t is expected that resolu-
tion to make such an appropriation will
be introduced before the board tomor-
row. 1t will not be acted on before
next week. In the meantime every
farmer in the county is urged to see his
supervisor and not only let him under
stand that he will be back of him in any
such project to bring factory of this
sort into the county but also let him
feel that the farmers of the county ask
it of the board.
In general the plan of such payment
would be Ito issue county warrants
which would be made payable at
such times in the future as would seem
most convenient. The payments would
thus be distributed over considerable
length of time. AS matter of fact
however they would scarcely be notice
; able should they be made payable ali
this year. The amount, if all paid in
one year would be less than seventy
, cents for each thousand dollars. This
} would not however be attempted. The
city of Owosso, besides her share of the
county tax, will be asked to take care o.
the site question which alone viii
amount to as much or more than th'
matter Of the acreage.
II That is in brief the work that lies be
! fore the city and the county at th'
} present time. 1t is the opportunity O.
i the twentieth century for Shiawasse'
! county. 1t must be taken while tn,
) tide is at the flood. The representa-
8 tives of the eastern capitalists are ex
| pected in the city next week and unles
) matters are far enough advanced from
/ the position they are in today to satisf,
them that the county and the city meal
. business, times for Shiawassee count,
) will not be much brighter than the,
have been in the past. If fprompt actor
| is taken however, nothing can stop tn
period of prosperity which will increas
' all over the county, in the country OF
{ the farms, in the villages, in the stores
RI Continued on page four)