The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-14
HOPES FOR SUGAR PLANT.
VIEWS OF PRESIDENT PAsEWALK
OF INDUSTRIAL COMPANY.
OLD PLANT COULD BE LOANED
Dlstlller's Son Recently Visited Mr..
Pasewalk and Conferred With Him
In Regard to Establishing Distlllery.
Where Proposition Stands.


A young man whose father owns
and operates a distillery in Peoria, ILL.,,
recently visited Norfolk and talked
over with II. A. Pasewalk, president
the possibilities open here for estab-
fishing a similar plant in Norfolk. He
said that he was anxious to buy the
old sugar factory buildings and land
that goes with 1t, and that he would
write. No word has been heard from
him since and Mr.. Pasewalk has con-
cluded that his project has been
dropped.
A local company, composed of Nor
folk men and farmers in the vicinity
of Norfolk, organized with enough
capital to establish a sugar factory
here and operate it, is believed by Mr..
Pasewalk to be the solution of the
sugar factory problem in Norfolk. He
believes that within couple of years
such an institution might be estab-
lished and operated at profit.
Would Go In 1t, Himself.
"If l could dispose of my present
business and building | should be will
ing to go into such company and or
ganize it." said Mr.. Pasewalk. 81 be-
lieve that farmers in the country
around Norfolk would be glad to CO
operate by taking stock and paying
for the same in beets-say 500 or
5000 worth of beets each year. l am
n vi Int
could be made to pay"
Attorney Smith of Grand Island was
the last sugar protector to show in
terest in the factory here. He was
anxious to start a factory and agreed
to furnish the money, but he wanted
the 1000 acres of beets guaranteed.
This was impossible and the plan fell
through.
What Norfolk Could Do.
Norfolk, or rather the Norfolk In
dustrial company, which owns the old
factory and the 240 acres of land with
1t, will be willing, according to Mr..
Pasewalk, to turn over the plant to
any institution which will set up bust
ness here and employ from thirty to
fifty people the year around. The
property will not be given outright,
but 1t will be loaned to the industry
for simply the payment Of taxes, just
as long as the industry will grind out
product and employ labor. If the
firm operating the plant so desired,
the loan could be enjoyed for a thou
sand years, so far as the Industrial
company is concerned. What the
company wants, according to Mr..
Pasewalk, is to get some industry
started which will benefit the COM
munity. The company has deter
mined that a sugar factory could be
operated to better advantage than any
other type of industry, because of the
wide knowledge in sugar beets among
Norfolk farmers, and so this is more
hoped for than anything else. No
small institution, such as a little can
ming factory can get hold of the fac
tory buildings.
Nine Good Boilers.
There are nine good boilers in the
old sugar factory now. Each is a
125-horse power boiler. They have
been cared for well, and are in good
shape. Carloads of lime have been
put into them to preserve them.
Mr. Pasewalk believes that the
beets would be raised. Without going
out of his Office he contracted last
spring for 800 acres to be shipped to
Ames.