The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-11-08
SCOTT HULL
Tells Of LoveIand, Colorado, and Of the
Big Thompson Valley, 4 Rich
Agricultural Sectioa.
THEIR BIG BEET SUGAR FACTORY.

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aac Hull and wife, of this place, en-.
closing dollar for another year s
subscription to the "News, >
which, he says, he enjoys very
much.
Scott has charge of the ware.
house in big beet-sugar factory
in Loveland, Colorado, and says
he likes his work and the place;
but, still, he thinks there is no
place any nicer to live In than old
McConnellsburg.
Loveland is located SO miles
north of Denver and has a popu.
lation of about two thousand. 1t
is up IN the air more than twice
the height of the top of Cove
mountain, having an altitude of
5240 feet, while that of McCon-
nellSburg Is but 659.
Loveland is comparatively a
new town, having been incorpor
ated less than twenty-five years
ago. 1t is situated in the Big
Thompson Valley, one of the rich
est agricultural sections of the
United States.
VIM. G. Davis, not our commits
sloner Billy, has farm of 24O
acres. Last year he had SO &C
res which averaged 50 bushels of
wheat to the acre, and 90 acres
that averaged SO bushels. The
Gerritson brothers, ON a farm
just east of Loveland, had 33 ac-
res of wheat last summer which
yielded 2, 145 bushels, or an aver.
age of 65 bushels to the acre.
Single acres have been selected
where the yield was IS to 80
bushels.
All kinds of fruits do well
there.
Land can be bought from $25 to
$3.50 an acre. depending upon To-
cation. Many choice farms can
be bought at $40 and $50.
Loveland's s great industry, how
ever, is her beet sugar plant
Tins enterprise, which gives en-
ployment to several hundred peo-
pie and places hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars in the pockeIs of
tine farmers, was not obtained
without determined pull, alto
gether, of the citizens of the town
some five or six years ago.
Capitalists were invited, but in
each instance, they demanded
that liberal amount of local cap
ital should be put into the enter
PRISE, and after repeated trials
and failures, the citizens succeed
ed in placing $45, 900 in money and
land in the hands of the capital
lists, and the plant was installed.
Everybody there now is heartily
glad for the sacrifice they made
in raising the money and feel that
their donations shall be returned
to them many fold.
One of the condl tions of the con
tract was, that the farmers agreed
to raise $500 acres of sugar beets
for three years. The company
we'll knew that If the farmers
would raise beets for three years
there would not be any danger in
the supply falling off; for an acre
yields from fifteen to twenty five
tons of beets, and the farmers re.
ceived "a. so q ton for tn IN. To
show that the company was not
disappointed in its expec' atlons,
this year 5000 acres were plant
ed.
1t is said that . conservative
estimate places the net profit to
the far rmers of about $45 an acre
OF. land cultivated IN beets.
The plant this season expects
to grind 10000 tons of beets,
from which they will make 49,.
100000 pounds of sugar.
/ Four hundred and fifty hands
are employed. aud every twenty
four hours ara used 400 tons OF
coal. % TONS OF lime rock, 10 tons
of coke, 400 to 900 lbs. Of soda,
and 1900 to 1900 tons of beets are
ground.
After the beets are grou I'd and
the juice - extracted, from winch
the sugar Il made. the pulp foe(la