Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-01-05
Rocky Ford Board Of Trade Holds
Sugar Beet and Railroad
Meeting.

Tho Rocky Ford board OF trade held
nm interesting meeting this afternoon
TO consider what announcement should
he given to- n railroad compnny pro-
jccicd from Rocky Ford To the Hoi-
brook country. largely for the purpos"
or bringing tho beet crop OF that sec
tlon to the factory here.
The meeting was called to order by
Col. LociShlrt. president OF the board.
and the first speaker called on was
Manager wictzcr of the american Beet
Sugar Co. We make the following
summary of Mr.. wiotzer's address:
Much consultation has been done
regarding increasing the certainty OF
the winter supply In Hoibrook by the
construction OF reservoirs. HIVE rec
commended to our directors that n rail-
road be built through the Holbrook
country. Two months ago the directors
decided to build n railroad from Rocky
Ford to Holbrook and orders were
placed for rails. Our company stands
ready TO finance any reasonable rcscr-
roir proposition In Holbrook. During
the past season the favoring of nom
resident growers In the matter of carly
delivery has seemed necessity but
such discrimination will not occur In
the future. Siloing Is the proper roth
oa OF handling the crop which cannot
b. worked up before freezing weather.
Col. Lockhart asked nm expression
from any representative OF the Swink
factory proposition who was present.
but no one responded.
Hon. G. w. Swink spoke of the un-
certainty of any other road than the
Santa Fe traversing the valley as an
agreement OF railroads to keep out of
each others territory would prevent.
He had signed no acreage for the
Swink factory and had advised his
tenants that IL they signed for the
.t,A -
their acreage SO that the supply for
the Rocky Ford factory would not be
reduced. The proposition of building
railroad to Holbrook should have
every encouragement. He believed
that the sugar company would be will
Ing to make such an advance in the
cost of siloing as investigation should
determine to be just to both parties.
The factory's discrimination in favor
of nonresident growers and against
the home growers in the matters OF
delivery and siloing has caused dissat-
isfaction. This has caused farmers to
feel friendly to another factory. Per-
sonally he took no stock In Wiley's
proposition-the market steadily pro-
vided by the American Beet Sugar Co
was better than any promises for the
future from another party II the in
tentions OF our sugar company to build
the Holbrook railroad had been known
few weeks ago as today outlined by
Mr.. Wietzer the Holly proposition
would have had no standing in the
Holbrook country. The American Su-
gar Beet Co. have always done as
, they agreed and will do SO in regard
to the building of this railroad Farm
ers are liable to want all they can get
ana II 1t comes easy will want n little
more.
l. D. Hale said that the presence OF
the American Beet Sugar Co. had
greatly advanced land values but they
had doubtless made some mistakes. A
railway spur from Rocky Ford to Hol-
brook would serve the farmers of that
section much better than one from
Swink. and he hoped the Holbrook
farmers would weigh the situation be-
fore going too far. p,
A. C. Conner suggested the justice OF