Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-03
Cutler
Returns Home.
He Thinks the Ways and :ieans Committee viii Giue The
Beet Contacts for NeW Year Being Signed.

tive 70 the transportation OF a number
OF fanilies TO Idaho for the purpose "
placing them upon the lands owned by
his company and starting up sugar
factory next season.
In course Of conversation with the
''News' this morning he stated that he
had already number OF men on the
grounds at Mountain Home who were
engaged In grubhng sage brush and
pteparing the land for cultivation. He
also stated that he had placed large
order Tor lumber In Oregon and a num-
Der Of six roomed cottages were TO be
built aud the land parcelled Oh into 100
acre farms which would De leahed 10
the families coming from the East, I'M
der ave year contracts, He further
stated that u 5OO-tnn factory would be
put w next August and that there
would be 1890 acres Of beets under cul-
tiyatlon
we have secured the townsite Of
Mountain Home he said, and | leave
for Idaho IN a few days TO file the
deeds. In addition our company owns
over 5000 acres OF land there and we
WIN put up 5O0-ton factory next
August Next week We expect II. n,
Smith 70 arrive from Rutan, Pa. Mr..
Smith viii be the assistant supenn~
tendent He win superintend the clear
Ing ana blowing OF the land prior to
the arrival OF thirty families of Sean
dlnaylans from Illinois with whom We
have fiye years contract for the grow
ing and the cultivation Of beets. Every
man viii have 100 acres and six
room cottage, and all viii be ready
for them when they arrive, II ls pro-
posed that they have the homestead
and ten acres for their individual use
the rest Of the land will be put in with
bsets--thlrty acres each year In rota-
ton, so that each section win be sum-
mer fallowed for two years,
eThe contract for the building Of the
sugar factory has been let to the OK
uard Construction company and II
win be put mp next summer We have
also engaged expert men TO oversee the
cultivation Of the beets,
I'VE think that we have a great
proposition up there Last season We
made number Of tests and sent a cou-
pie Of shipments OF beets 10 Rocky
Ford and Chicago, AS the tests were
FOR ourselves we sent just an average
The beets ran from one to one and O
half pounds and panned out 10 sac
charine and 1913 purity minimum
against 24.b and S67 maximum
Continuing he stated that the com
pany. whose Headquarters are TO b'
moved 10 Salt Lake from Chicago, ac
quired the townsite Of Mountain Home
last month and held 1900 individual
ne rpen,al water rights and also had tn
IA O0O-aore foot water reservoir whicl
vas NsiIt by the Mountain Home Lam
Y @'caf "a company and LATER ACQUIRED \!
the Elmo County irrigated
YARNS association, who In turl
sold out to the idall'
Beet Sugar company. This company
said Mr. Brockman, will construct an
other reservoir called the Camas, whici
will give them another $4,000 acre Zee
of water, while next year still anothe
IA to be built which VIII be known al
the Long Tom. With these three
reservoirs. Mr.. Brockman says ina
they will have water enough FOR lOV'oV
acres. -,
MIR. Brockman expects 10 be In TN
CITY for several days yet, purchasing
supplies and making arrangements To-
shipments. In the meantime the ore
ron Short Line officials are helping MN
out ali they can In the matter anC
promise to build a spur 10 the rae
tory as soon as II gets In running Or
der.