Arizona republican., 1906-02-16

or three thousand acres more planted
 to beets but says the enterprise will surely be a success If only the 4,0Og acres first asked for are planted and
 there is now lacking of that amount. only a few hundred acres which the recent rains and the settled water pol icy certainly insure
 The reasons given for a larger acreage
 this year are first that the present fac tory can handle the product of seven
 or eight thousand acres and the longer the run the more money there wilF be
 In the enterprise for the factory. for the farmer and for the business men oI PhoeniX. There is no natural TO-
 source capable of development that re- turns larger percentage of pure clean
 money; that is labor coined into poId
 IT half million dollars worth of sr,-
 gar IS made, returning a profit of an
 proXimateIy $1O0.OOO to the factor,,
 S4VO'OOO will go right back amo14 me people or the valley. In the beet sll-
 gar business nearly everything exceut
 .He conpany's profits goes right back into the pockets of the people whore IL IS produced in the shape of money
 aside from the rent of the land wbt@s
 some have to pay, and inc en99u amount the company has to nav o,r
 TOT tuel and lime stone. this money all goes 10 the men who cultivate tho 1 peets. who own the land, who work in | me sugar factory, in fact everythin,. | IS paid for labor except that which goes into the farmers pocket. More | than that all the sugar used locally is Just that much less the merchants 1a1,a to send money out of the country to buy under present conditions and there are good many carloads of IT used Tn this valley fin year And the i larger the beet crop the more money
 can be made both by the people and the factory. For that reason 1t is more | iealIy cooperative enterprise than almost anything else capital under takes. The other reason given by MT. fTapr,c is that he is already in close toncb
 with parties who desire to build q fac tory on the south side next year and desire his cooperation. He would ike to see that factory built for it would be still more money for the operators and more money for the people with even greater convenience to the south slde farmers who are depended upon this year for a large acreage. But. says Mr. Hapke, the sugar factory ueoule will not build two factories until they have demonstrated.that one will pay. He i has no doubt Of the natural resources of the valley and says the possibilities are here for the support of at least one 1 factory on each side of the river bu.' 1t depends entirely on water and the
 willingness of the people to raise beetsL
 He is so sure that there will be no
 hesitation after this year. if only q
 good big crop can be raised this sea
 son for the matter then will have de-
 monstrated itself. And as for the wa
 ter question there is no doubt that will
 have been entirely settled by another year.
 For the raising of beets Mr. Hapke says that two irrigations after the
 beets have sprouted will insure a crop and it has been demonstrated by many experiments elsewhere that a pound of water will make a larger weight of su- gar beet than of any other crop that can he grown.
 MT. Hapke says that by April 1st he will have all the machinery here for the Glendale plant and soon thereafter all the experts, sugar makers, etc, that will be required in it's operation Then the quantity of beets to be worked will be the all important thing It will cost about $700 Der day for the factory to operate and one can easily figure the difference between a run of twenty days and a run of fifty days, in the pay roll alone. to say nothing of the increased amount distributed for the purchase and raising Of the larger crop.
 Some of the experts have already been secured anu many of them will become permanent residents of the val ley. F. Treskow W ho is now in charge of a factory at Menominec, Mich. has been secured for the general superin- tendency of the plant and will be here by April 1st. All the experts, chemists. etc, will be hera by May Ist- MT. Luther, a brother-in-Iaw of w. r.. Tanner. is now here. to have charge of the placing of the boilers having been sent out tJ the makers
 MT Hapke is a very busy man for he las q lot of business on hand be- side building the Glendale plant He does a general contracting business in the building of sugar and other plants. particularly drying plants for various purposes. of similar nature to the dry CTS used in sugar making. He does not manufacture the machinery but buys each different kind of machinery where he can do the best then brings all to- gether at the point of construction Just now he is engaged in building sugar plant and a drying plant at Ma dison, Wis. pulp dryer at Lyons, N. Y., and ona in Riverdalc, III. He is also negotiating with government of ficiaI concerning the cost of a plant for drying ensilage in the Philippines and has an inquiry concerning the eX- pense of building a sugar plant in China. He says he will investigate the latter but has no idea of going there himself, at least not at present.