Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-24
BEET SUGAR.
A Visitor from Denver is Expected
Here Tomorrow Night,
MEETING AT GRANTS HALL.

On the visit of Albert L. Teele to
Santa Fe, the New Mexican of yester-
day says:
Albert l.. Teele, Esq. of Denver, was
in Santa Fe yesterday on legal bust
ness. Mr.. Teele is editor of The Sugar
Beet Grower and of Western Construc-
ton, published at Denver, and is also
interested in a company which under
takes to secure capital for sugar beet
factories and construct and equip such
factories. Mr.. Teele will tonight adj
dress the people of Las Vegas on the
subject of sugar beet growing and the
steps necessary to secure a sugar beet
factory for that city that will employ
100 hands and will give something like
an income of half a million dollars a
year to the farmers of that section.
The evening following he will make a
similar address at Albuquerque. Mr..
Teele is willing to come to Santa Fe,
and without remuneration, address a
mass meeting here on the subject. He
has made sugar beet growing and beet
sugar making a life study and knows
&AaCNAg nv 1ottbitAOEio thot bt
met to make both a success BY what
he has seen of Santa Fe and surround
ings he is convinced that a large sugar
factory would prosper in this city,
owing to the fine quality of beets
raised here, the especially good water
supply, the excellent limestone, the
~cheapness of labor and the large area
in the Santa Fe. Tesuque, Nambe and
Rio Grande valleys that could be put
out in sugar beets, not to speak of the
practicability of retaining large areas
of good land between Santa Fe and
Lamy. He feels confident that If the
people of Santa Fe go about it in the
right way this spring, that they can Sc
cure a beet sugar factory by the fall of
1903. He also gives assurance that the
factory at Rocky Ford, Colo, will take
all the sugar beets raised in this sec
ton at from $3.50 to s4.75 a ton and
that the Santa Fe railway would
make a rate of not more than 81 q ton.
AS the average crop is 10 to IL tons
an acre, it would be worth while trying
TO induce farmers to plant sugar beets
as an experiment for this year and
thus secur available data which would
certainly result in the building of a
factory at Santa Fe that would give
employment to 100 to 200 people, not
to speak of the large amount of money
that would be expended in construc-
ton and that would annually flow into
the Golfers of the farmers in this Sec
ton and the incentive it would give to
retaining more land than is at pres
ent under ditch. The Santa Fe board
of trade and the mayor of the city
ought to take up this matter with Mr..
Teele, and at least, have him come to
Santa Fe to give the people of this
city a good talk on the subject.
TO CITIZENS OF ALBUQUERQUE.
If a spirit of enterprise is manifested
ny our people, u beet sugar factory can
be secured for this city. This means
the cultivation of every acre of land
in this vicinity and the employment of
a large number of men. | appeal to all
our citizens to attend the meeting to
be held on Saturday evening next. the
25th, at Grant hall, at 8 o'clock, which
meeting will be addressed by Hon
Albert l.. Teele.
o. N. MARION, Mayor.