Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-27
WILL PUSH SUGAR
 BEETS IN MAR|COPA
Contracts Being Let For Large Acreage to Be Used In
 Factory,
(Phoenix Gazette.)

J. R. McKinnie and R. P. DaYie, rep resenting the controlling interests and the prime movers in the Southwestern Sugar and Land company, arrived in Mesa yesterday forenoon and were the guests of Dr. A. J. Chandler until the departure of the 4:20 train for Phoe- nix yesterday evening. TAe principal object of the visit was to determine the extent and conditions of the under ground water supply throughout this section of the county and incidentally to secure data and information in re- gard to the probable location of fac tory for the manufacture of sugar, both here and at Tempe.
 When seen at the train yesterday evening just before their departure fog Phoenix the gentlemen were full of praise for the south side. Dr. Chandler drove the gentlemen down to his large ranch several miles south of Mesa, where they not only received the desired information in regard to the underground water supply but much valuable data as to the produc, tivness of the soil. Mir. McKinnie Is as much interested in alfalfa growing as he is in sugar beets which made 
 double interest to him. He was frank to admit that the trip had been a rev elation to him and that he had seen fields of alfalfa growing at the Chand Ter ranch that he did not know existed in such quantities in the Salt River valley.
 Mir. Davie. who is a sugar beet spe- cialist from the ground up, when asked point blank as to the prospects for a factory at this place replied: If We make a success of the Glendale factory there is no question but what Mesa and Tempe will be the next places at which factories will be To- cated. We have been looking condi- tions over pretty carefully and | want to assure you that there is room on the southside for three factories"
 Continuing in regard to the pres poets for the Glendale plant he said: The farmers are coming through splendidly with the signing up of con tracts and many of them are coming into the office and assuring us that they expect to put out liberal acre age of beets this year. Not only are the local men becoming interested but one man from Colorado who has been  with us has taken a lease on thou sand acres of land that We acquired with the plant and will put to sugar beets. He is we'll acquainted with the business and is thoroughly convinced that this place excels any that he has ever been in. The great point in favor of the sugar beet industry in the Salt River valley is the lengtil of the har- yesting season. For instance, beets may be planted here throughout the months of November, December, Jan. uary and February and the harvest would extend through the months of April, May. June and July"
 When asked as to the number of acres that should be planted by one man and a team Mir. Dayie replied: One man and a team should be able
 to tend and harvest thirty acres of beets. The thinning is the only oper- ation connected with the successful growing of the crops that would re- quire additional labor. As to returns it is hard to place an average but to make it very conservative I should Say that $40 per acre net is about what can be expected Of course there are many who harvest $1O0 per