The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-05-14
Eighty Families Brought to Keno.
sha and Racine Counties by
Sugar Beet Company
CAME ON SPECIAL TUESDAY
Men and Women to be Distributed On
Farms in Kenosha and Racine
Counties Nearly All Are Ger
mans and Know Industry

Eighty families consisting of PAT
people arrived in Kenosha on special
train from Cincinnati Tuesday and to-
day eighty new homes are being opened
in Racine and Kenosha counties for the
accommodation Of the new Corners. The
special train when it arrived here was
Isplit up and portion Of it sent west
over the Harvard division of the North
western while the remaining cars loaded
with the people and their household eff
fects were sent on to Racine Junction
which was used as a distributing point
for the families. The people are all ex-
pert sugar beet raisers and they have
been brought to this section to take up
the work of raising beets for the James
vile Sugar Beet Company. They will
be scattered about on farms in the two
counties. Forty-ive Of the families
were assigned to this county and nearly
every vacant house will be filled up by
them. Many of them will be forced
to spend the summer in tents. They
brought with them their household fur
niture, but they may have trouble find
ing place to put it.
Few Of the people who arrived on
Tuesday are English speaking people,
most Of them being Germans and Hol-
landers..
They had been living in the Ohio
country about Cincinnati and had be-
come experts in the culture of sugar
beets. Thousands of acres Of land in the
two counties will be given over to the
raising Of beets this season and for
this reason these new inhabitants are
being imported in order to get the work
in this county started right. Experts
on soil have declared that the soil of
this county is particularly adapted to
the raising of the sugar beets and the
Iproprietors Of the big plant at James
vile plan to build up a great industry
in this section Of the country. 1t is
probable that a great plant will be built
somewhere in this county within short
time.
AS soon as the people who arrived on
Tuesday have been settled there will be
another special train load brought to
Kenosha and Racine counties from Kali
amazoo, Mich. Like the ones arriving
on Tuesday these people will be recent
arrivals from Germany, but all Of them
will be skilled in the raising Of sugar
beets.
Elmer Billiard, representing the James
vile company, and who had charge of
the special train, today informed re-
porter that the company had contracted
with owners of 5000 acres of farm land
to cultivate sugar beet in southeastern
Wisconsin this season and that J. L.
Walsh, the cabbage king would cul-
tivate 800 acres and at Union Grove
there would be 200 acres Of land devoted
to growing sugar beet, all of which will
be shipped to GAINESVILLE. The people
brought here Tuesday have had ex-
lperience in cultivating sugar beet and
have been employed on sugar beet plan
tations in this country and Germany.
The people were billed through as SO
much freight, the children being billed
as E'half'
There were 247 passengers in all on
the train. The following is list Of the
places where they are to make theiI
homes: Waukegan, 2; Winthrop Harbor
Is; Kenosha, 4; Racine, 90; Pleasant
Prairie, 1872; Woodwork, 1917; Bris-
tol, r.; Salem, 2315