Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-10
MILLION DOLLAR
SUGAR FACTORY
,rah Capitalists Plan Gigantic
Reclamation Enterprise in
Montana.
INDIANS TO GROW BEETs.
IN Fort BcllSnap Reservation--1O,oO0
Acres of Fine Land Leased for
zen Years-Othcr News.

,rfen. Jan. 10.--A gigantic enterprise
4 viii soon be launched by Ogden capt.
q ,si,sts involving the building of a ST.,
A an 600 sugar factory on the borders Of
n Tho Fort BellSnap Indian reservation
& roar the town of Harlem, in northern
d Montana.
After three years investigation and
8 regotiation, aided by a special act of
\ congress. Il contract for lease was
s signed yesterday In this city by Judge
n. H. Rolapp, David Eccles and NJ. S.
4 pmwnlng, parties of the second part,
a h which the parties of the first part
4 sre the government and William II. Lo-
snn, superintendent in charge of the
Fort Belknap reservation, in Montana,
Il lame Bull, Skunk. Ed Rider, Otter
& Robe, Bushy Head. Sleeping Bear,
q crazy, Peter Capture, Powder Face,
q GUs ventre John, Belknap Fox, Lit
M Chief. Frank Buck, Many Cows,
william Berry. Hawk Feath RS. Shin
q ne Breast. Boy Chief, Gone High, busl-
n ness council of the Indians; William
Berry, interpreter for the Assinaboines,
1 end Belknap Fox, interpreter for the
Gms Ventre.
The agreemnt which is lease of
1000 acres of tribal lands in the Fort
Beknap reservation, for q period of
/ u years, involves the outlay of 81 O00.-
ca on sugar plant Immediately out
side Of the reservation, the construc-
ton Of q three-mile railroad line and
the inauguration of system of irriga-
lion starting from the Milk river, a
stream that runs through the Indians
land and To the water OF which they
have Irior claims. Work on the fac
tory will be commenced in the fall, so
that the factory will be completed foi
use in 1909 when the first crop of sugar
teets is to be harvested by the Indi-
ans
The educational value of the project
cannot be estimated until after a
thorough test has been made, but it is
splendid chance for 1,400 healthy In
dams.
The 10000 acres of land to be used
IN the growing OF beets lie in very
fertile valley within the Indian reserva-
ton, Immediately Joining the town of
Harlem ON the south. The country
IS well watered by Mill creek the In
dams holding prior water rights there
10.
The soil is exceedingly rich and ma,
turally most prolific. Small patches OF
sugar heets have been raised there
during the last few years and the test
OF the product as to saccharlne quality
Is highly satisfactory.
Harlem is situated in Choteau coun,
~ just outside the reservation and is
within three miles of the Northern Pa
ciiiC railroad. A spur of the big rail-
road will be built to point near Har-
lem for the accommodation of the fac
tory which viii place the industry in
immediate touch with the balance Of
the commercial world.
one provision of the contract is that |
1000 acres of these lands that have
been leased must be planted to beets |
'ach and every year. during the cons
fact time. while the other 5000 acres |
must be used for other crops. This
rovslon is made for the purpose of
nsurng a rotation of crops for the
eneht Of the lands. The spirit of the
ease all the way through Is to ad-
ance and protect the interests of the
indians and furnish them an incentive
0 work and become versed in agIi-
ultural pursuits. The general plan or
he entire project is that the Indians
hall perform the labor of raising the
Gets needed for the factory, and that
be company building and operating the
act0ry shall not profit by the enter
rse, neither shall they lose in the
peraJion; the sole object being to adj
anco the better interests OF the In
lans, and teach them to work for the
ime wages as white men work for.
he project is being operated under the
and hearty approval OF
ie secretary of the interior. Much
edit is due to David Eccles. Henry
Eolapp and Matthew S. Browning
Ogden, for their efforts in promot-
u and conducting to a successful issue
rs big enterprise.
uNERAL OF JOSEPH Il. TAYLOR.
The Mound Fort ward Westinghouse
as filed yesterday afternoon with
rrowng relatives and sympathizing
lends who assembled to pay n trib-
e OF respect to the memory of Jo-