The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-02-20

A section of one of the vacuum pans
and derrick hosting engine haye been
received this week.
The Macomb Co. has closed contract
with one party to grow thousand
acres of beets next year.
Secy. Smith spent Tuesday in the
city looking after business matters con-
nected with the Sugar Co.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature appropriating
$75, 900 for the encouragement of sugar
beet culture, so as to provide bounty
of half a cent pound.
Work will be commenced next week
ON the five foot sewer running from the
factory to the river. The sewer is
quarter of a mile long and will be
twenty feet deep part of the way.
Everything is ready to begin the con-
crete work as soon as the weather will
permit. Two carloads of cement have
been received and the gravel and stone
are already partially on the ground.
Secy. G. N. Smith of the Sugar Co. has
been elected as one of the board of di-
rectors of the Caro- Vinegar Co. This
company manufactures vinegar from
one of the by-products of the Sugar Co.
The Sugar Co. will begin work soon
on fifty double houses on the farm re-
Gently purchased in Saginaw county.
Sixty horses will be required to work
the farm, of which thirty have already
been purchased.
The Pennsylvania legislature has be-
fore it bill which authorizes the secre-
tary of agriculture to expend $250O each
year for five years in experiments in
growing sugar beets, to determine the
adaptability of the soil and climate,
and to pay 1c. per lb. for five years, to
any person or association manufactur-
ing beet sugar; during the sixth year,
&c. per h.; the seventh year, &c. per
h., and the eighth year, 4c. per lb.
This bounty shall not be paid to any
manufacturer unless he has paid the
beet-grower at least S. ton for his
beets.
Some idea of the work of constructing
the intake tunnel from the river to the
plant can be formed when it is under
stood that the tunnel will be ITO feet
long, FIVE feet in diameter and at the
lowest point 80 feet under the surface.
: The pump house pit will be 25 feet
square and % feet deep; from this will
be sunk well 10 feet in diameter tc
connect with the intake tunnel. The
pump which will lift 3Oinch stream OF
water, will be located at the bottom OF
the pump house pit. The wall for tbs
tunnel will be nine inches thick and will
require 100000 brick. The work Of
construction will be slow and tedious.
The Country Gentleman says: Oul
Washington representative, than whom
no man at the national capital is better
informed, writes us, Feb. 2: Indica
tions point to the failure of the admin
istration (in spite of daily, sometime
hourly, conferences with men from tn,
capitol, as well as promises of an extri
/. session and the like to obtain the anti
agricultural legislation which it wa
asserted must" be enacted. Cubal
reciprocity has been quiescent this week
and while it will certainly be heart
from again, it is possible and appear
now to be highly probable that if th'
, opposition can prevent ratification o
the treaty before March 4, no extra ses
sion will be called. But it must b
, remembered that Mr.. Roosevelt is |
man of impulses, and may act suddenl.
when Congress has adjourned; and tn
opposition to the treaty should no
allow itself to be taken by surprise.
Someone has been figuring on tn
, number of people in Michigan more O
less dependent for living ON beets ant
beet sugar in that state. Even if ever
reader cannot admit the figuring as en-
tirely correct, the calculation, in NOR
or less modified way, can be used as al
argument when dealing with peopl
who have not yet thought of the i'm
portance of introducing the beet indus
j try in their neighborhood. The calcu
lator is liberal, and allows 100 stocl
r and bondholders for each Of the sixteel
sugar factories of Michigan. He the
assumes that FIVE persons are dependen
u on each of these. This makes tota
of 5000 persons He further suppose
that each factory employs 210 person
g and that five depend on each of these
q which makes 16,SO0. He has been in
formed that about 1877, 900 separate cor
j. tracts for beet acreage were made i
/. Michigan curing the campaign jus
n closed. Using the multiple again, b
obtains $685. persons, and gran
total of 659, 800 persons, more or les
dependent on the beet sugar industr,
Sugar Beet Gazette.
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