The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-05-28

done by Mr.. Logan during his short
stay Of a few hours in the city, as
he had no opportunity to make any,
thing more than just cursory inves-
tigation. He looked the proposition
over and seemed to feel that the op-
portunities offered here for mill were
excellent. He stated that Chinook and
Malta were exerting every effort tn
secure the location of factory there,
and when they get ready to establish
a factory, they will look the situation
over from purely business standpoint
and wherever it appears best for their
interests to locate the factory, that is
where it will go.
If the people Of Glasgow and vicin-
ity can show them that it would be
more advantageous to establish sug-
ar beet factory here than farther west,
they will put it here. It remains for
the farmers throughout the valley to
show what they can do when it comes
to raising sugar beets and it is to
their own interest and for their own
welfare to do everything possible to
get their land into proper shape for
the growing of sugar beets, for as
soon as the irrigation project is COM
pleted they can get water on their
land. There is no better method to
prepare the soil for sugar beets, than
by planting alfalfa, for it puts the
elements into the soil which will make
the yield of sugar beets much larger
than would otherwise result.
The Commercial Club will do all in
it's power to aid in the work of secur-
ing sugar beet factory here by pur-
suing the methods it has already been
following. Secretary Moore has been
in correspondence with three different
sugar beet concerns, any one of which
will build factory here if shown
that sugar beets can be grown pro-
fitably here. Mr.. Moore has also pur-
chased 25 pounds of pure sugar beet
seed from Billings and has distributed
it among the farmers, to be raised by
both irrigation and without irrigation,
and when the crop natures in Sep
tember, tests will be made, both for
the percentage of sugar and the num-
ber of tons per acre.
Mr.. Moore has placed the seed into
the hands of twenty farmers and has
given them written instructions as to
just how to care for sugar beets and
how to grow them, practically under
the same methods as would be used
if the factory were here. The result
OF this test will have a great deal of
bearing with the sugar beet interests.
"There is no reason why Glasgow
should not have sugar beet factory
here" said Mr.. Moore yesterday.
Every condition that exists in the
Milk River Valley is favorable to the
profitable growing of sugar beets,
compared with the Billings district
where farmers are making big money
growing sugar beets.
I'VE have the advantage here of a
better soil and the climatic conditions
are equal to that which exists in the
Yellowstone Valley, so there is no ex-
cuse or reason to offer why we should
not have factory here.
"1f we hustle hard enough and ev-
eryone boosts for it, we can have
a factory in Glasgow within the next
two years. This will mean an annu-
5 al output of from $5OO,OOO to $780,.
t 600 which will be distributed among
the farmers and business men in the
u territory tributary to the sugar beef
: factory. and the larger portion of this
e will go to the farmer"