The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-03-06
SUGAR STOCKHOLDERS MEET
And Elect Directors for the Year
More Beet Acreage Must
be Planted Here Else

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Nevada Sugar Company
was convened Monday and continued
over to yesterday after board of
directors had been elected to serve
throughout the ensuing fiscal year.
Those who were placed on the board
are: r. C. Bialy and C. r. Hawley,
Bay City, Mich, capitalists; Thomas
Dolf, |. H. Kent, C. B. Likes,
H. E. Roe and Fred Hinze,
of Fallon, f. M. Lee, of Reno and
Henry W. Hinze, of Santa Ana, Cali
fornia.
The beet question was discussed at
Mondays meeting and figures given
out that are not altogether compliment
tary to the valley farmers of this
project. Messrs. H. E. Roe and Fred
Hinze, who have had charge of the
campaign for beet acreage reported
varying success. In the home district,
which includes all the farming sections
tributary to Fallon, but 434 acres were
accounted good in Mondays reckoning,
while the Lovelock section is credited
with $50 acres and the Lassen county,
California, farmers have responded
with 215 acres with further prospects
of increase to around 1900 acres. The
liberal concessions made on freight
rates from that section to Fallon
h a s m e it posi- b e
for the local factory officials to solicit
beet acreage in that section. Mason
valley farmers have signed up 80
acres, while those in the vicinity of
Reno and Sparks have responded with
but 20 acres; w. G. Douglass, former
secretary of state, whose fine raHca on
the shores of Washoe lake has been the
admiration of many, has signed up 2l5
acres. Altogether 2079 acres have
been signed up and inasmuch as it re-
quires around 5000 acres to make a
profitable campaign, there is still a
discouraging disparity between what is
desired and what is assured already by
the farmers of the state who live with
in shipping radius of the local factory.
The showing secured from the farmers
of this project is particularly discourage
ing, but is more largely attributable to
lack of transportation facilities than
indifference to the factory's welfare.
The local factory is capable of hand
ling the product of 10000 acres in a
single season, and could the Southern
Pacific Company's officials be per-
suaded to building 20 miles of road
divided between two spurs running
east and south to serve the Saltwater
and Island district farmers, it is be-
lieved that the maximum acreage could
be secured without great difficulty.
Mr.. K. c. Bialy, who has control OF
the stock of the corporation, made 1t
plain that without more earnest at
tempts at cooperation on the part of
the people of the yalley-whose assist
ance should have been Forthcoming long
ago-the factory would be moved. He
stated to this paper that he had been
guaranteed the product of 5000 acres
for a ter m of five years by the resi-
dents of section in Michigan. and fail
ing to pay here as a financial invest
ment the Fallon factory would surely
90 there. But this is a contingency
that will probably not arise, and pres
ent plans lock towards the earliest de-
velopment of the project as local in
stltution.
Mr.. Bialy has been in touch with the
chairman of the Polish immigration
committee for some time, with the end
in view of inducing 100 Polish families
to locate in this valley and engage in
sugar beet raising. This is the class
that has done so much in the further
ance of the beet sugar industry in Mich
igan. The Poles are thrifty class and
make good citizens, according to Mr..
Bialy, who stated that in his state they
had been the chief factors in raising
the land values from S25 to Sl00, with
plenty to sell at the first figure a few
years back and little at the latter fig
ure now.
Looking at the local beet sugar situ-
alton through roseate glasses, Mr.. Bialy
stated that in his opinion there was not
better land for the industry anywhere
than in this state, that much Michigan
capital, already made optimistic by gen.