Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-02-03
SOME PLAIN TALK
ON SUGAR FACTORY
If the Farmers Want to Keep
Industry in State Must
Raise Beets

That the men behind the Nevada Su
gar Company are going to insist upon
action upon their half million-dollar in
vestment is certainly a reasonable con-
cluson They did not come to Fallon
and select it as the site of the great
est manufacturing plant in the State be-
cause of the beauty of the local environs,
nor is il reasonable to assume that they
erected the gigantic buildings, and
caused TO be installed therein more than
ore hundred carloads of machinery, that
folly On the other hand, Fallon was
selected as the site of the States first
sugar factory because it is the acknowl
edged center of the greatest government
irrigation project in the whole United
States because, surrounding Fallon are
broad acres of natchless land that are
capable of producing sugar beets carry
ing marvellous amount of saccharine
matter; because, at the outset local bust
ness interests showed more than passing
interest III the enterprise, and the farm
ers seemed disposed to enter into the
spirit of the project and do their share
in making it a success by causing the
sugar beet to be one of their principal
crops
Now, Falon business has been the
sole beneficiary from the factory's erec-
ton TO date. Laying facts bare, the fac
the lubricating oil consumed by the
bearings of the machinery. Another
years operations are almost upon us,
and the apathy that settled down on
sugar beet affairs when the first enthu-
siasm had worn away still pervades the
community. Business men, who should
have shown more than passing interest
in the enterprise, failed to even go out
to the factory during its few days oper-
alton aud clasp the hands of the hardy
men who are responsible for its exist
ence. No words of encouragement or
good cheer came from them.
Now, what do the business men of
Fallon think If we are to judge by
past events, some of them may even not
be given to this more or less laborious
pastime Those who do think may well
conclude that Fallons apathy, if con,
tinued, is going to result in the loss to
this valley of the States first sugar fac
tory. Stranger things have happened,
and the moving of manufacturing enter
prises from dead town to a live center
has occurred times without number. And
while we are not willing to concede that
Fallon is dead one. yet we would fail
in our duty if we minimized the danger
of the commurity's attitude of indiffer-
ence in this matter
Over i'll the Lovelock valley a lively
interest i'll the local factory has been
maintained from the outset. Indeed,
the interest there i'll the enterprise sur
passes that felt here, Notwithstanding
the fact that the factory is fifty miles
away. This is evidenced by the liberal
manner i'll which the HUMBOLDT Valley
farmers grasp the sugar beet raising
idea.
bounds of possibilities that Lovelock,
seeing Fallon' 5 inapitude i'll grasping the
importance of the great sugar plant,
may see fit to offer a bonus for factory
iu Lovelock, and with a dead plant i'll
Fallon another new plant would hardly
be assembled over in the Humboldt Val
ley town.
Now, this is a plain homely talk,
couched i'll plain language, but it GER
tainly has to do with trusms.
Upon the farmer, more than anyone
else, does it devolve to supplant theory
with practice; it is up to them to disre
gard the harpings of knockers, who
knock everything; it is up to him
to disregard the results of the first sea
sons endeavor and rightly place it in
the category of very, very unusual sea-
sons. Sugar beet growing was followed
in an experimental way in this valley
wrought such havoc last season was here
for the first time. Coincidentally, the
blight visited the whole inter mountain
country If it follows the precedent set
down by such pests, it will likely not
come again for generation.
But even if sugar beet raising is to be
called hazard in this section, which is
not the case, the farmers should gamble
in small way with the owners of the
sugar factory. If they stop to think
about it, every property owner iii the
should discharge in the way that will be