Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-16
Question Of Labor Has Now Be-
come a Serious Problem.
INDIANS AND BOYS HIRED.
Manager Granger OF the Greeley Fac
tory says the outlook There
Is for Big Year.

The season OF beet thinning In all the
numerous fields throughout Utah and
Idaho. which are now devoted TO the
beet sugar business, is rapidly draw
ing near, and from all accounts the
farmers In some OF the districts are at
their wits ends to know noY TO secure
the necessary labor. In Utah, Salt
Lake. sanpete and SEWER counties,
where the biggest part Of the Utah
Sugar company's crop is grown, there
Is but little trouble, as the beet tracts
generally are smail, and boy labor Is
plentiful In the Bear River valley,
where the population Is more sparse,
they Will employ several hundred In
dams from the Washable agency and
they do the work well. In Idaho the
problem is more serious. The likeli-
hood is that Blackfoot Indians viii be
employed there by the farmers and ne
gotiations are now going on 10 have
several carloads of expei fenced boys
and young men sent up % Idaho from
Utah OF Nasatch county. They can
find ready employment among the
farmers in the Snake River valley, un-
Ill the beet thinning seais m Is over.
Reports from all the beet fields indi-
cate that 1908 VIII be a record breaking
year for the beet sugar industry. The
Utah Sugar company has 1000 acres
planted, against 5000 last year, 5000 be-
ing In the south and 5000 In the Bear
River valley The Idaho Sugar COM
pany has 5000 acres planted, remark
able record for an opening year. In
fact, IL Is three times greater than the
Utah Sugar company had in It's first
year, and more than double what Og-
den had It's opening season. Reports
from the Amalgamated company's beet
fields In Ogden, Logan and La Grande
are favorable and show an increased
acreage everywhere. Utah consumes
10000, 900 pounds OF sugar annually,
and last year her factories yielded
nearly 100000 pounds, so that half
the product had to flnd a market out
side. This year Il Is likely that the out
put will be increased anywhere from
25 per cent TO 50 per cent
BETS IN COLORADO
Mr.. Clarence A. Granger, manager Of
the two sugar companies at Greeley and
Longmont, Colo. and the first superln-
ltuucnl Vi the ONdH sugar w., pdSScu
through the city today en- route to Cal
ifornia, where he goes 10 take a rest
Of three or four weeks the first by
the way. that he has enjoyed for a
number Of years. Mr.. Granger reports
the sugar situation in Colorado as very
promising. They have three factories
now In operation, one at Greedy, one at
Loveland. and one at Eaton, with three
others in course Of construction. The
Greeley factory, In which a number of
Salt Takers are interested has about
5000 acres Of beets planted. The crop
is all up and looking well, and the out
look is fine for good year. They sell
most of their product on the Missouri
river but share the Denver market, the |
profitable one. with other factories. The |
crop Is now about ready to be thinned. !
and as labor Is very scarce there, they |
have brought In a number OF Germans |
and Russians who will locate perma- |
nently in the locality. They are accus-
toned 10 this class OF labor and do II |
well.
Mr. Granger says the six Colorado
factories viii operate In entire har-
mony and the rumors OF friction be-
tween them are altogether unfounded. |