Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-14


are thoroughly familiar with the culture
Of beets and the manufacture Of sugar.
The form Of the contract we ask you to
sign is the same as that made by the beet
growers of Utah and Idaho, who sell beets
to the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, and
the prices paid to you growers will be the
same as paid in Idaho and Utah, and the
price will be the same f. o. B. at any and
all railroad stations on the Southern Pa
cific between Ashland and Merlin or any
station on the Oregon and California coast.
Last spring we caused beet seed to be
widely distributed in your valley, and some
of it was planted and beets have been
grown. These beets have since matured
and samples have been tested and condi-
tions observed, proving to our satisfaction
that beet culture and the manufacture of
sugar in your valley will be profitable and
should be its greatest industry. Numerous
tests have also been made of the different
soils in the valley, and the result is that
we ARE convinced that there is at least
fifty thousand acres in the Rogue River
and adjacent valleys adaptable to beet cul-
ture.
The climatic conditions have been pro-
nounced ideal and the patches of beets
planted have convinced us that fine quail
ity of beets can be grown, and that the ton
mage and percentage of sugar will average
larger than in the other sugar beet dis
tricts of which we have knowledge.
Just as soon as Rogue River Valley
proved up to be an ideal country for beet
culture and the tests of beets was avail
able, the question of the construction of a
beet sugar factory was taken up with Salt
Lake City capitalists, who are familiar and
interested in sugar securities, and the re-
suit was that the Oregon Utah Sugar Com
pany was organized with paid up capital
of 100000 and $500,000 issue of first
mortgage bonds has been provided for con-
struction purposes, and bank credit of
100000 to 100000 to annually handle the
crop and sugar has been arranged for.
1t is up to the farmers of Rogue River
Valley to sign up part of their lands for
beet culture. Their action will determine
whether or not the sugar industry in Ore
gon is started in Rogue River Valley or
elsewhere, as the stockholders of the Ore
gon- Utah Sugar Company have made up
their minds to go into the sugar business
in Oregon, and the Rogue River Valley is
it's first choice and if the acreage cannot
be obtained, the company will then decide
on Umpqua or Willamette valleys.
The location of the plant and it's site will
be decided by the directors as soon as the
acreage is signed up and passed on. No
matter where the exact location is, the
farmer can deliver his beets to convenient
loading stations on the Southern Pacific
and California and Oregon coast railroads,
and the price of beets F. O. B. cars will be
the same as though delivered at the fac
tory
AS soon as the beet contracts are signed
up the company proposes to establish per-
manent places of business in Medford and
Grants Pass, for the convenient handling
of the business of both ends of the valley.
TO MAKE SUGAR WE HAVE TO
HAVE THE BEETS, AND BEFORE
BUILDING A FACTORY AND ISSUING
BONDS WE MUST BE SURE OF THE
BEETS. YOU ATTEND TO THE BEET
RAISING PART AND WE WILL AR
RANGE THE REST.
A number Of important factors enter into