The Delta independent., 1906-10-12
Encourage the Crop That Brings
Quick Financial
Returns.
RAILROAD FOR SURFACE CREEK.
Such Can be Secured II That County Will Grow
Two thousand Acres For Proposed
Delta Factory.

The editor of this paper has made up
his mind to encourage the sugar beet
industry in Delta county in every way
possible and believes that by so doing
the influence of this paper will be exerted
for the best interests of the entire
county and the town of Delta.
In studying our needs the one thing
that presents itself most forcibly is the
want of money in this community.
There is so much TO be done, so many
places for the use of capital that we do
not have, that we are not advancing as
rapidly as conditions warrant, simply
on account of this lack of the big dollars.
Our people are enthusiastic about fruit
growing and they are justified in being
So but our orchard planted this year
will not bring financial returns for
several seasons. We want TO do more
with crop that is planted in the
spring and yields dollars in the fall.
Sugar beets is the crop for this pur-
pose. II has made the farmer of the
Eastern Slope rich in comparatively
short time II has doubled and quad
rupled the population of towns where
factories are located and has been the
cause of wonderfully enhanced values
in all kinds of real estate. So far as
we are able to learn the beet growers
of Delta county are making money.
They find the crop profitable and de
sirable one. An informant says that
Mr.. Moore will net S65. 90 per acre from
his sugar beet crop this year and he
does this on land he paid s35 an acre for
only few years ago.
While the beet q wers are max ing
money there are too few of them in the
business. We want to encourage the
industry and get more of our farm
ers to growing bects. for it means
immediate financial return and conse-
quent distribution of a large volume of
money in the community. There is no
other crop that so widely distributes
money as does bcets. due to the large
amount of labor required in their pro
duction and marketing.
WHAT better can farmer want than
S65. % an acre profit on land in single e
year. Such returns are phenomenal.
What is land worth where this can be
done?
Delta can and should have factory
building during the summer of 1905,
but in order to do so we must begin
the agitation and arouse larger in
tcrest in beet culture in order that the
required acreage may be available
when the time comes.
Five thousand acres of beets will Sc
cure a factory. 1t seems to the writer
that il ought easily to be secured in
Delta county. The Surface Creek
country can surely handle 1000 acres
and there is great incentive for them
to do SO. 1t is the prize they need and
quickly. and that is transportation
facilities.
With factory in Delta. and Surface
Creek pledged to produce 1000 acres. a
railroad would necessarily be built to
transport the crop. That would be a
p'ii' VI llt balSail. beelS Salhl't NC
raised profitabIy and taken to mark ct
in wagons more than four miles. The
Colorado & Southern has put out spurs
of from twelve to twenty miles in
length wherever factories are located
on the Eastern Slope to handle the croI
and many small hamlet has secured Il
railroad in this way that could not pos.
sibly have hoped for it for years to
come had it not been for the beet in.
dustry. A factory in Delta will put
the railroad on Surface Creek
This article is only an introduction
to our campaign for the encouragement
of beet culture in Delta county and the
building of factory in Delta. We
want the assistance and encouragement,
of those who agree to this proposition.
There is probably no opposition, but a
do-nothing policy is as bad as opposition
We must get our heads together anG
make sure of factory in 1908. II is
none too early to begin the campaign
and the INDEPENDENT starts it today
and promises to keep at the work unit
the result is attained.
Growers can assist materially by fur
nishilg Information regarding the re
suit of their experience. Bring or senC
concise statements of the number oi