The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-08-11
SIGNING UP BEET ACREAGE
Secretary George Likes Inter-
viewing Farmers About
Their Acreage.

George Likes, secretary of the Ne
vada Sugar Company, is interviewing
the farmers of the valley and when his
work is completed not a single man
who owns farm land within the confines
of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation prof.
eet, but who will be afforded an oppor-
tunity TO contribute his part towards
making success of the Nevada Sugar
Company's undertaking, and in addition
to the farmers of this valley, others in
nearby sections will be asked to lend
their efforts toward the same end. AL
together around 1000 acres for beet
raising are sought, and from available
data it is believed that when Mr.. Likes
has completed his effors, an amount ap-
proximating the desired acreage will
have been sighed within the state.
General Manager Fred Hinze gave
this paper few facts Monday relating
to the building of the factory. He
tells us that $50, 900 will be disbursed in
this community for labor alone incident
upon the erection of the factory and
the installation of the machinery. And
with the completion of the factory the
annual wage total of factory employees
will be aroung $3.50, 600 If Secretary
George Likes is successful in his efforts
to secure 7000 acres of signed beet
acreage, this will mean an additional
$500, 600 to be disbursed annually to
the growers Of beets. This sum is ar
rived at by figuring the average ton
mage of beet lands in this valley at
ten. which multiplied by $3.50, the
average price of the product at the
mill. gives 5000 as the average price
of beets raised to the acre in this val
ley, delivered at the factory. This is
a conservative estimate, according to
General Manager Hinze, who believes
the average yield will be forty to fifty
per cent in excess of the sum figured
in this paragraph.
Mr.. Hinze pointed out the intimate
relation the beet industry bears to
dairying and kindred industries. The
beet tops, as has been called attention
to iB former articles, remain on the
ground and make excellent stock feed.
Some. he said will argue that alfalfa is
a profitable crop, and that they can i'll
afford to displace it for beets. This
argument has never held good, be said,
where beets have competed with alfalfa
for the rule has been that beets dis
placed all other crops on fertile LANDS
in other sections. Anyway, he said,
what would be the value of alfalfa in
this valley, if say, half the availab
irrigable acreage of the valley should
be placed in alfalfa. A market, al
ready cheap, would be glutted. Wher-
ever beet raising has come to be an in
dustry, the value of farm lands has
been increased materially and here
where -ands are SO well adapted to
beets and the ruling selling figures are
SO ridirulously low, Mr.. Hinze CO MI
IDENTIFY expects this increase to amour,
to several times the present price OF
lands.
Another advantage pointed out by
Mr.. Hinze is the fact that the beet
product is sold at the outset of season
or even before for stated price and
the farmer has nothing to worry about,
as his income is governed only by the
manner in which he handles his acreage
and the tonnage he produces. Mr..
Hinze argues that because of the Won
derful adaptabiity of the soils of this
valley to beet raising that neither the
Nevada Sugar Company or the farmers
of this valley can fail of success, for
as time goes along, ne believes the in
dustry will grow until within a few
years, the stupendous sum of
81, GOO, 600 cash will be disbursed an
nually to the beet growers of the val
ley for their beets alone.