Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-14
Salt Lake City, Utah,
October 7th. 1915.

OCTOBER Itn, lJl0.
TO the Commercial Clubs, Land Owners
and Citizens of Rogue River Valley:
About year ago the undersigned made
several visits to your valley for the pur-
pose of investigating conditions that apper-
tain to the establishment of the sugar man
ufacturing industry in the Rogue River
Valley.
Those preliminary Investigations were
very encouraging and we later induced
Bishop c. W. Nibley, one of the principal
stockholders of the Ten Million Dollar
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company of Salt Lake
City, to visit the valley and meet the repre-
sentatives of your commercial clubs and
its many prominent citizens and land own
erS.
At the time of Mr.. Nibley's visit it was
decided that the season was too far ad-
vanced to obtain the required acreage to
justify building sugar factory for the
season of 1915. Owing to the fact that the
growing of sugar beets had not yet been
given practical tryout in your valley,
Bishop Nibley at that time demanded that
before he would help build sugar factory
five thousand acres of suitable lands be
first signed up for beet culture, and that
the people of the Rogue River Valley put
$2500O0 into the enterprise. 1t should be
understood that it was not necessary to
obtain money in the Rogue River Valley
in order to build a sugar factory, but it was
felt and deemed important that local peo-
pie be financially interested in the new
industry so that it would have full meas
ure of local support, to help insure it's sue
cess.
AS the undertaking was large one, and
not enough time was left before the grow
ing season of 1915 to work out business
plan that would enlist the support of the
necessary capital and obtain the necessary
beet contracts, the matter was deferred
We we're satisfied with the result of our
first efforts because of the splendid recep-
ton accorded US by your people, and be-
cause of the promise of Bishop Nibley that
he was ready and willing to go ahead for
the season of 1916
Since the beet meetings that were held
last January in Medford under the aus
pices of the committees of the several com
mercial clubs of your valley, we have kept
right on working on the plan, and we can
now announce that we are ready to go
ahead if you land owners will raise the
beets, and we respectfully ask the CONNER
cial clubs of Ashland, Medford, Central
Point, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Grants Pass
and other places in the valley, and all its
citizens, to help us obtain the necessary
five thousand acres of beet contracts.
We have recently obtained the necessary
guarantees of local financial support, and
the backing of capitalists, who will build
factory under certain conditions that they
exact, and the first and most important OF
these conditions is that the acreage that
will be devoted hereafter to beet culture
must be signed up at once.
Copies of beet contracts can be obtained
at any of the commercial clubs OF at the
Headquarters of the Sugar Company In
Medford Hotel, Medford, and Josephine
Hotel Grants Pass, or will be mailed on
request We will have soil and beet ex-
pert who will visit your land without ex-
pense to you and give you such information
as YOU desire about beet culture, and the
headquarters at Medford and Grants Pass