The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-11-02
BEET SUGAR FACTORY
AN ASSURED SUCCESS
Agriculturist PREM FavorabIy Inn
pressed-ResuIts that May BE
Expected by Growers.

10 admit of any doubt about It's being
ruit, and the earnest and bu>incsShke
manner in which the entire matter Is
being handled, coupled with the hearty
ty and the business men of this city
assMc and almost guarantee the
success of the enterprise from the
start. In brief unless there is
some miscarriage in the plans
of the promoters which there seems no
season to expect. work will begin on
the factory within the next six or seven
weeks and be pushed rapidly until COM
pleted. Contracts for the required
acreage having been secured. agricul-
tural experts from Colorado and Utah
will be sent out to advise and cooperate
with the ranchers who are going into
beet raising next year, chief of whom,
=. j. PREM, is now in the city. Several
men have been engaged to canvass the
county and secure the contracts for the
ter success than they anticipated.
The company incorporated for the
purpose of building and operating the
factory is known as the North Yakima
Beet Sugar company. The enterprise
will call for an investment of a million
dollars, and the decision to locate a
factory in the Yakima valley was arriv-
ed at after a number of experts in vari-
Gus lines had examined the conditions
thoroughly and had reported to the cap
italists who are most deeply interested.
Their representatives do not hesitate
to say that the conditions here are more
promising than those of any place where
beet sugar factories have been con-
structed and that they found the three
main equisites-climate. water and
soil-to be ideal. They predict that the
yield will exceed that of Rocky Ford,
Colo, which is in the recognized banner
sugar beet producing section of the
country at this time, and where the aver
age crop is highly satisfactory to farm
ers and the sugar companies, the record
being fortyone and half tons per acre.
Mr.. PREM was sent out by the COM
pany to investigate the general condi-
tions in the Yakima valley that are
considered in beet culture. He is the
company's chief agriculturist, and they
are waiting anXiously to hear his re-
port. 1t will be along the lines indi-
Gated in the foregoing paragraph, and
this being true, the question of profits
in cultivating beets may be approx
mately determined The company is
binding itself to pay for the beets deliv-
cred at the factory. $500 ton, for all
and so per cent or better in purity, the
contracts covering five years. There
is every reason to believe that Yakima
beets will go considerably better than
these requirements In talking 10 the
Herald of the proposition Mr.. PREM
said:
The company does not consider any
propositions to establish and maintain
factories except in irrigated sections,
which have proven superior for the MIR.
nose not only because crops are surar
but because the beets raised on IRRIGATED
land have higher percentare Of SUGAR
greater purity and Weld the BIGGEST
tonnage per acre-conditions that ARE
SATISFYING alike 10 the farmer and The
factory. I am convinced that the nron.
osition will prove successful here for
all the conditions are ideal The eli
mate cannot be exee1led. the water sun.
NV is annie and Of excellent quality
and | have never examined soil that
seemed to be more perfectlv adaptcd tc
the successful culture Of surar bccts
Then Won nave the sunshine. and that J..
essential. I might state here that The
same conditions are necessary for INC
successful growth Of sugar bcets that
are necessary in order to grow the best
alfalfa. But want TO state tnat tie