Arizona republican., 1914-12-20
Formal Opening Yesterday at Glendale of the First Cane Sugar Plant in the United States West of Brownsville, Texas
CEREMONIALS OF
 THE INAUGURATION
Beside Members of Club, Many Business Men and Others from Phoenix Sat at Luncheon in Honor of Occasion

It was Glendales red letter day and it might well be, the inauguration of an industry, the only one of it's kind west of Brownsville, Texas, where cane is made into sugar. It was the formal starting of the plant of the Southwestern Sugar x Land Com pany. The plant was first operated last Thursday and had been run ming every day since-a tuning up process that it might be in readiness for the visit yesterday of the Ro- tarians whose business it is to give impetus to other wheels. They saw it, and for most of them. it was the first time they ever saw the juice expressed from old fashioned sugar cane and sent along the boiling, granulating process toward the sugar of commerce. Beside the members of the Rotary club in attendance there were many business men and others interested in the development of the Salt River Valley, anxious to see the
 turning of the wheels which would institute a new industry.
 Luncheon was served the club and other visitors by the Ladies' Aid So- ciety of Glendale. One hundred and seventy guests were served and each had as dessert toothsome piece of sugar cane
 After the luncheon, A. A. Betts, president of the Rotary club, acting as the rapid fire master of ceremon- | ies, introduced A. C. Worthington, the president of the sugar company. MT. Worthington expressed his abso- lute confidence in the Salt River Val ley as an ideal locality for the cul- tivation of sugar cane and his equal confidence in the success of the in- dustry which the visitors had seen so auspiciously launched.
 | The next speaker was Walter Burch, who represents the legal pro- | lfession in the rotary club. MT Burch first spoke of the purpose of the
 club as a representative body of the community whose interest was less | in the individual than in the com
 munity as a whole One of it's pur- 1 poses was tD HIoiu thc iuShiDciS VI lcommunitv into a harmonious whole
 Ito secure cooperative effort. Speak ling of the new industry:
 This sugar plant represents ar Immense investment, expended in thi: community and it creates marke for the farm product at the verl Idoor of the producer. If the peopl'
 of this valley will get behind thi lpIant and boost" it by using it Iproduct in preference to all others lit will make the investment profit fable, give employment to labor. brini lprosperity to the producer, and ever, dollar expended for sugar will be kep
 lat home to circulate in the channel
 of local trade If this community idle can be crystallized into the slogan
 Made or Produced in Salt. Rive !, Valley"-it will infuse new vigor int every line of business"
 } The next speaker introduced wa } R. P Davie, the genius of the suga
 plant, the man who had put the bee : sugar plant on it's feet and who interested in the sugar business i : many states He asked for the earn f est cooperation of the community an
 the boosting of not only this enter . prise but all other enterprises b ' the consumption of their products preference to those from the ont
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