The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

are already thIee large sugar factories
| in the upper part of this valley. viz.
Blackfoot Idaho Falls and Sugar City.
These factories have enough beets to
/ keep them running until spring. A
crusheT - Parker IS also operated in
connection with the Sugar City factory.
II is estimated that 500 600 tons of beets
! have been proinced i'm this valley this
year which shows that the tremendous
sum of $1.350.0 0) has been disbursed
among the farmers for this crop alone,
! this year. Some farmers have averaged
over twcnty-throe tons per acre. which
means that their land produces rev.
enue of over 500 per acre il is no
wonder that land valves have increased
and rich. well located farms i'm the
Snake River valley arr coveted so
much
In addition to the above sum paid the
| farmers Tor beets. an immense amount
| of money has been paid TO employees Of
! the various factories, which brings the
sum total which these institutions scat
| ter among the people to nearly a mil
| lion and , half dollars.
Soil Adapted to Beets.
| orc reason the sugar beet fiourishes
so well in eastern Idaho is because he
soil is wen adapted to vegetable growth.
1 AZ II aif'f liOiil dlkelll tilllIAtN. on dc
j count of the excellent drainage caused
by the unGerlayer of gravel beneath the
/ soil. No matter how much water is PM
upon the land. it does not have the Ge-
J trimental effect such procedure has on
soils of other valleys. The climate here
/ is nearly the same as that which pre-
walls in Utah valleys, except iii summer
the days are nearly two hours longer
than IN salt Lake, and this. with the
cool nights. is very conducive to the
growth anC maturity of the beet crop
I No matter how large the beets grow.
( they do not lose their sugar qualities.
Beets th9t have weighed from eleven t.
sixteen pounds have, upon being tested.
been found to be equal with the smaller
ones. The unlimited water supply. to-
gethef with the factors named above.
make this an ideal sugar beet growing
/ country
tt is now stated on good authority
/ that another factory viii soon be erect
ed OF; the line of the Oregon Short Line
near Riehy This is an absolute neces-
sity if the beet growing Industry is to
increase for the present factories will
not sign up new contracts. claiming
that they have all they can possibly
handle under the old contracts.
| The acrea ge devoted TO the heet-grow
ing industry. compared with the acre
age in the valley well adapted to this
crop, is as nothing. 1t is safe to cav,
that not 10 per cent of the present TILED
acreage is planted tu beets, hence now
that the neople have come to like this
kind of farming. the great necessity Cor
more factories can be appreciated.
Potatoes of Fine Quality.
Eastern idaho is also noJed Tor the
fine quality of her potatoes. These ranl;
in eastern markets equal. and in some
places arc preferred, to the Greedy p-,-
duct. This year, out of the little town
of Rieby. over SHY cars OF potatoes
have been shipped going as far east as
| Minneapolis and Kansas City, south TO
Texas and Salt Lake, west TO Mountain
| Home. aud north to Butte. From 500
to 5000 per acre has been produced by
farmers from potatoes when they bring
a good D,.ice. This line OF farming has
tbeconse quite general with the agricul-
turists in this part of idaho. and rivals
the beet industry very closely. The
reason fer the fine quality of Idaho
potatoes is the adaptibiiity or the soil,
| which does not bake, but retains its
lloamv nature under irrigation. Another
important factor to potato production
lis that each farmer in this valley uses
Ian the water he needs. all the time.
There is no such thing as turns. Each
farmer can use one, two or three
streams day. night ana Sundays Il he
has occasion. Potatoes must be Kept