The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-02-10
GARLAND'S ssUCAR FACTORY
What the Utah Sugar Company Has Done for the Bear River
Valey-The Canals Past History-A Future for
This Valey-A Boon to Garland.

son of 1905 we had the pleasure of
being shown through the establish.
ment and viewing the operations
while in full blast Mr. Mosiah Ev.
ans, the resident manager. conducted
aus through every department from the
beet storage bins sto the sacking and
final storeroom, where sacks piled
high await the shipping orders from
various locations. Every detail was
thoroughly outlined and the different
processes explained to us in very
satisfactory manner
Those who have failed to visit the
| factory have missed considerable and
cannot comprehend the vast amount
of work 1t requires to transform the
beet to the pure grains of sugar.
Owing to our limited time to pre-
pare this issue for the 10th we are
unable to do justice to the company
or to satisfy ourselves in failing to
present to the public more detailed
account of the workings and benefits
| OF this extensive institution. We are
indebted to the Deseret News for con.
siderable Of the information we sub.
init on this page.
In the early seventies, after the de.
| velopment OF Cache valley was begun,
President Brigham Young considered
| the possibility OF bringing out the
| great Bear river canal through the
Bear river canyon, but saw the i'm
possibility OF raising sufficient capital
| to develop this stupendous work, and
abandoned 1t for the time being.
Later on Mr.. John w. Kerr. a bank
| er of Salt Lake, had preliminary sur.
veys made to take the water from
Bear river near a point which is
known as the natural dam about one
| mile from where the present power
plant of the Utah Sugar company is
now located; the difficulty that con.
| fronted Mr.. Kerr was the financing OF
IT. He also abandoned the project, as
ii was very difficult to get this
| amount of money to develop this vast
work In 1887 Mr. John r. Boutwell,
OF New York spent some time in the
valley and filed on the waters of Bear
river and Bear lake, and was success.
full in promoting the project through
the financial agents, Jarvis & Conklin,
then OF Kansas City, who sold two
million worth of bonds for the build
ing and equipment of the canal and
the Ogden waterworks. The corpora
ton was known as the Bear Lake a.
| River Water Works & Irrigation com.
pany, with Jarvis & Conklin as trus.
| tees.
Crash Came In 1898.
In 1898. when the terrible financial
avalanche swept over the world Jar.
Wis & Conklin failed for about $780,
900, 900, and the Bear River company
being one of their projects, went to
a. he III
| up one Of their contractors. who was
Mr.. William Garland, by s150,000, and
he filed a mechanics lien for this
amount, which kept the company in
| litigation for about Ave years, and the
supreme court of the United States
decided in favor of Garland. During
the interval of this litigation on Jan
| larry 4, 1898, Mr.. w. II. Rowe, who
vas then assistant superintendent OF
the u. g. NJ. l., was appointed receiver
of the Bear Lake Il River Water
| Works & Irrigation Company; when
| Mr.. Rowe took possession of II for the
| bondholders. the canal was In an un.
| finished condition, and he took "a trip
to London and raised sufficient money
from the bondholders to finish the
canal. In September, 1894, the Bear
Lake business was foreclosed, and
was bought in by representatives of
the bondholders, and a new company
was organized In the name OF the Bear
River Irrigation a. Ogden Water
Works company. Through great eff
forts the land under the Bear river
canal was developed and many farms
sold. The development of the valley
would have been much more success.
full had not the Garland litigation
been pending for the five years past,
ms all the water rights were being sold
subject to the Garland lien.
Bought by Evans and OooIy.
Messrs. David Evans and John Il.
Dooly of Salt Lake purchased Gar
lands interest, and during the owner
ship OF Evans and Dooly they i'm
proved the canal system at cost of
S125,000.
The Utah Sugar company In 1901
purchased the interests of Evans and
Dooly and also bought some 10000
acres Of land In the valley. Since the
purchase by the Utah Sugar company
, the whole country has developed more
than during the whole time previous.
The Garland sugar factory has been
built, ready market found for beets,
and lands that were sold from 1898
to 1897 for $50 to $40 an acre are
now worth from SIS to sl25 an acre.
caused through the beet sugar indus.
try in this valley
Make Good the Water Rights.
And one magnanimous act of the
Utah Sugar company was the COM
promise made with the receiver of the
company in making good all the water
rights that had ever been issued to the
farmers without any expense to them.
The sugar company is now furnish
ing water to the farmers on the east
side of the Bear river through the
bitches of the Hammond Canal com
pany. This company buys the surplus
waters and sells to the farmers above
Brigham City. Lands which have
never before had water brought upon
them have been irrigated during the
past summer and the sugar company
has received many good beets from
this section
Purchased by SUGAR COMPANY