The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-14

rancher raised S.5 tons of beets on
each acre for which he received 81. so
making a total per acre of $38.57,
while this year it is estimated that
the average rancher will raise 1875
tons on each acre for which he will
receive $500 to $500 a ton.
The LOngmont mill as built in 1903
was rated at daily capacity of 900
tons. Actual statistics show that the
average 24-hour run for the first
year was 49S tons. In 1908 the mill
was greatly enlarged and has been
improved since then until last year,
the average tonnage of beets sliced
daily was 2,133, the largest in Colo
RADIO and the second largest in the
United States.
Over $2,OO0,OO0 Annually Expended at
Local Plant.
The Longmont factory by itself at
the present time represents the i'm
mense investment Of more than ST.
100000. Yet the amount of invest
ment is largely exceeded annually by
the amount paid out right here in
the Longmont plant for four items,
supplies, labor, freight and beets.
During the fiscal year of 1915 the To-
cal office will have directed the ex-
penditure of $26O,00O for supplies
$275,000 for labor, 100000 for freight
and 100000 to the farmer for beets
an astonishing total of $2.235 900
nearly one and one-balf times the
cost of the factory, which is by .the
| way the second largest in the United
| States
The greater part of this more than
two and quarter millions of ex-
penditure on the part of the sugar
company circulates through the trade
channels of this city Every bank
mercantile house, publishing plant
hotel, in feet, every manner of bust
ness feels the impetus of additional
cash receipts when the annual sugar
campaign gets under way, and the
first big payment to the farmer for his
beets, is financially speaking, prob
ably the great event of the year
Farm Values Have Doubled Since In
PRODUCTION Of Sugar Beet.
| The indirect advantages to Long
mont and the surrounding district
accruing with the rapid growth o
the sugar industry, are fully as larg'
but much more difficult to measure
than the direct benefits. Farm lant
has doubled in selling value through
out north and eastern sections o
Boulder county during the past twelv
years and the actual producing valu
has increased in proportion.
Figures from the U. S. department
Of agriculture reports Bulletin Nc
$50, on average yields show that il
! the mountain states district averag
J yields of wheat per acre have risel
since the crop has been rotated wit
: sugar beets from 1888 before to 43.0
: afterward, corresponding figures TO
!, barley, 1897 to 1914; oats, 40.9 to 6O.t
Continued planting of grain crop
means depleted fertility and decreas
: ing yields The sugar beets was in
! troduced into the U. S. largel
: through the efforts of ex-Secretar
! of Agriculture, James Wilson, to pre-
, vide some good crop which could b
: planted after grain and prevent thi
: constant loss Of fertility. and the 95
, ranchers Of the Longmont distric
: who raise beets year after year ar
D ready witnesses to the perfect put
8 tioning OF the sugar beet crop
maintaining yields.
! Again the sugar beet industry
9 inseparable from the cattle feeding
: northern Colorado. The passing {
the pulp silo will also spell the dowI
: fall of the feed lot on the irrigate
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