Arizona republican., 1909-07-28
FINE WATER TEST
 AT SUGAR FACTORY
MARVELLOUS RECORD OF SINGLE WELL, OUT OF SEVERAL
 IN USE.
Campaign Will Last Another Week or More-Leesons of the Season as
 to Early Planting of Beets.

There was ae report yesterday to
 the effect that the sugar beet factory
 would close its campaign last night
 MT. Davie was seen in regard to the
 matter and stated that the report is
 erroneous. The factory will not close
 until the beets are all worked up and
 that, MT. Dayie says, he thinks, will
 be about ten days yet No one can tell exactly at this time. Yesterday
 he said was the banner day of the season for tonnage of beets hauled by
 wagon. A greater tonnage has been
 received on some days by rail, but
 yesterday was the big days for the
 nearby farmers.
 MT. Davie also made interesting statements concerning two features of
 the sugar project here, one being the
 water supply and the other the matter
 of beets for next year. Concerning the water supply it is of common
 knowledge that there has been a fear of shortage by many who were scared at the water shortage suffered by the management of the old factory.
 MT. Davie has done everything pos
 sible to insure against such a con ditiOn by the driving of many wells
 in the vicinity of the factory. and the
 measure of his success is almost un- believable.
 Yesterday he mad a test in one
 well that has been in use now for
 sixty days, pumping out of it all the
 water possible to eXpel by compressed
 air through the ten-inch pipe, and
 which amount is over half the daily
 needs of the factory. At the con
 clusion of the test the water plane
 in the well stood nineteen feet higher than it did when the well was first put into commission two months ago. It seems that the using of the well has only loosened up the formation that furnishes the water supply so the water runs more freely than in the beginning, and the more he pumps the more water there is left, strange as it may seem. He says that if the pipe in the well were larger he could get even a greater quantity of water from the well, and no one knows but that the single well would furnish all the water needed by the factory. The situation in respect of water surely could not be more satisfactory
 Respecting beets, Mir. DaVie says the farmers have already voluntarily assured him of an acreage of 4,O00 and not a contract has been signed yet. He only wants from 1000 to 5000 acres next year. the latter being the maximum of all the present fac tory can handle in a season, so it looks now as though the farmer who wants to contract for beets in 1910 will have to be early on the job, or somebody will have to be refused.
 This is good for several reasons. For one, it insures an ample supply of beets next season without begging for them. But the best feature of it is that those who do plant will plant early, so those who do raise beets will make even a better success of it than some did this year. It has been demonstrated this year that early planting is the right system. even though fairly good crops have been made from late planting. The beets planted early. however, for some req son keep longer than those planted later and with no less of sugar value. And that is a desirable point for the beets can not all be worked at once Mir. Davie says that some of the | companys beets which were among | the first planted. are among the last | to be worked because it has been | found that they keep better and lose | nothing by staying in the ground | until they are wanted at the factory |
 Other advantages of early planting | are many. In the first place they | generally produce a greater tonnage. | which is better for both factory and | grower. Another reason is that they | are more certain of their water sup | ply. Of course it is not believed there | will be any more water in this val | ley. but one never knows what might | happen and then, too, as a general | principle, water is more easily se- cured in the early spring than later when it is more closely husbanded. | and when the same ditch, with the | same head, carries a rather less | amount to the land, for obvious req sons. Another reason is that this years larger percentage of saccha- rine matter and a final reason is | that when planted early the beets can be given careful attention and l cultivation before the farmers get | rushed with other work during the l springtime and harvest.
 Altogether, the early beet is the | ideal beet, and it is the plan of the | to have it's entire con tracted acreage in the ground by Feb ruary l, 1910.