The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-12-14
GOOD PROGRESS CONTRACTING
FOR SUGAR BEET ACREAGE
Beet Sugar Factory Promoters Meeting
With Encouragment-Con
Coming In.

| Several meetings have been held within
tine past few days in various parts of
the county by the members of the North
| Yakima Commercial club and others
interested in the establishment of the
beet sugar factory. the purpose being to
explain the industry fully to the ranch
ers and get them interested therein.
The slowness with which the contracts
have come in is not Indicative of lack
of confidence in the company to carry
out their promises. but rather shows the
prosperity of the Yakima valley ranch
crs. which is so great under present con
ditions that they are not to be blamed
for going slow in the matter of taking
up new features in farming. However.
the more they investigate the more they
are becoming convinced that a portion
of their farms devoted to sugar beet
culture will bring in satisfactory re-
turns. and that these returns are less
/ liable to vary in amount from year to
year than the receipts from any other
crop. 1t is believed that the total acre
age which the company asks contracts
| for. 1000 acres. will be signed mp with
! in a very few days. and that there will
be considerable more tnan this amount
when the solicitors make their final re
port. Work on the factory will then
be commenced and will be pushed as rap
idly as possible in order that it may be
completed in time to handle next sea-
sons crop of beets. The company has
options on three or four desirable sites.
and will decide upon the best of these
as soon as the required acreage is CON
| tracted.
Work that is being done in the vicin-
ity of Prosser and between that place
and Mabton is resulting satisfactorily
The missionary work being done by Agri-
cuturist PREM in and around Ellcns-
burg has been productive of good re-
suits, and il is expected That GOO acres
will be signed up in Kittitas county
| When it is demonstrated that the soil
and other conditions there are favorable
to profitable beet culture. it is believed
that sufficient support will result to
warrant putting in a factory as extensive
as the one to be built here. \ letter
to the farmers of Kittitas county pub
lisned in last weeks Localizer says in
part
eff the farmers of Kittitas county
wish to have sugar factory of their
own, and receive so cents more on the
ton for their beets and have the pulp
near by to feed their stock during the
winter and give employment for 400
men, during the same time of the year
when there is very little to do for labor
ing men, they will have the very best
chance right now. by raising some beet,
for the North Yakima factory. showing
the North Yakima company that they
can raise beets profitably. At present
the farmers of Kittitas valley do well.
but little better won't hurt. and the
rotation of crops with your land will
even prove valuable to other crops.
"All the sugar factory of 600 ton ca
pacity requires is from four to five thous-
and acres in sugar beets, and this would
be very small portion of the land in
cultivation near Ellensburg. Mr.. S. C.
Boedcher, of Ellensburg. will act as our
agent and will be glad to help the farm
ers to contract with the North Yakima
company, and we hope for your and our
own interest that Mr.. Boedcher will be
able to get every farmer to do his snare.
and once more we will state that the
farmer is not only helping himself, he
is helping his fellow man who needs
work during the long winter days and he
is helping to build up his community"