Arizona republican., 1906-09-09
SUGAR CAMP PAI6N
 WILL END SHORTLY
Glendale Factory Expects to Close
 Down in a Few Days.

[ It has been announced that the East
 ern Sugar company will close down it's factory at Glendale in a few days, af-
 ter campaign of about four weeks. The season has not proved a profitable one 10 the company. but the reasons | are apparent. and enough has been learned by experience this season to in- sure success another year.
 The company. according to the best information, proposes to fully keep
 faith with the farmers recognizing that
 they have done their part, and done it well. The beets that have not yet been harvested will be bought and paid for 1 by the company in accordance with its agreement. This will be quite heavy loss to the company. but it is one of the chances that it took in the enter prise, and it realizes fully that only for it's Agreement the farmers would have raised other crops that were market able. It is proposed to begin, shortly, arranging for next seasons crep and sugar campaign. and unless it treats the farmers fairly in the present eIner- gency it is appreciated that no enc would raise beets next year.
 The partial failure of the sugar making project this year is due en- tirely to the latepess of the season in the beginning of the campaign. the lack of skilled labor at the proper time. and more than all elses to a limited supply of water. and that of a very poor qual- , ity. The water supply as originally planned was from bored wells. So late did operations begin and so small was the flow from individual wells that there was not time enough to develop the required quantity before the open ing of the harvest season. This made necessary an auxiliary supply. which could be secured only from the cGfal. and it chanced that this year, of all years. the river water was continuously muddy and there was no way of prop erly cleansing or cooling the water to make it practicable for turning out a large quantity of first class granulated sugar
 By continuous effort and experimen- tation the management finally con quered conditions sufficiently to dem onstrate that it could make sugar of as good quality as anybody. and to demonstrate. further. that the Arizona beets were as good as those of any country for sugar making. when the facilities were at hand for their proper care at the proper time.
 The matter of skilled labor will also 
 the factory is ready promptly on time, the beet harvest will be more to be depended upon. and the water supply fully developed. The company having demonstrated these things, that it was necessary to know for the future, it has decided to close down for the season gas soon as the juice now in process is properly cared for. It has been run ming at terrific expense. for the reasons given above, and has concluded that it will be cheaper to buy the beets and throw them away than to continue the making of sugar the rest of this season.
 While the experiment so far has been disastrously expensive tor the company, the farmers have lost noth- ing, except a few. perhaps. who were slightly injured by not harvesting just at the right time, and it has been sat isfactorily demonstrated that all of these untoward conditions may be avoided another year.