The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-05-03
SUGAR Factory IS
SOLD TO UTAH
SYNDICATE
NEW COMPANY ORGANIZED
TO RUN PLANT NEXT YEAR
George Wingfield Prime Mover i'm
Enterprise and Now in Salt Lake
Arranging Details.

-aff3fiSfHE DtEtAfS.
Word was received in Fallon last
friday that a deal was pending for
the sale OF the Nevada Sugar Com
pany's factory to the Idaho-Utah
Sugar Co. of Salt Lake. On satur-
day came confirmation of the deal
end the further statement that a
new company was to be organized
to take over the factory ere and
operate it as subsidiary corpora
ton. under the corporate name of
the Nevada-Utah Sugar Company.
The details of the organization of
the new company have not yet been
made public, but it is currently re-
ported that George Wingfield is one
Of the prime movers in the enter
prise and will have an active part
both in the organization and in the
management of this branch of the
parent organization.
This supposition is borne out by
the announcement that Mr.. Wing
field had left Reno for Salt Lake
on Sunday to take part in the organ
ization OF the new company which
would be perfected on Monday last.
1t is also known that Messrs. Oxto-
by and Duffy. representing the De-
troit bondholders have been on the
ground for several days past con-
ferring with the heads of the Idaho
Nevada Sugar Co., one of the larg
est beet sugar manufacturers in the
United States. President Johnson
of the Peninsular State Bank of
Bay City Michigan, was also present
at the preliminary meeting and
came on to Fallon where he spent
last Saturday as the guest of |. II.
Kent, leaving here Sunday for Salt
Lake.
Mr.. Johnson was non-committal
on the details of the sale further
than to confirm the report of the
transfer of the property to the new
owners and to declare unhesitatingly
that the factory would positively
not to be removed from Fallon, but
to the contrary would be greatly en-
larged and Improved, and would un-
quetionably be operated next year.
AS to the personnel of the new COM
pany Mr.. johnson was silent, furth-
er than the statement that Salt
Lake men would be heavily inter
ested in the project.
The announcement has had an
electrifying effect on the people of
of this valley, who were somewhat
downcast after the failure of the sale
last January to produce tangible re-
suits Immediately However, there
has all along been an undercurrent
of belief that sooner or later George
Wing6eld would take a hand in the
project, a belief that now appears
to have been we'll founded, as it is
certain that it was through his in
dividual efforts that things have
shaped themselves to the present
happy conclusion.
While it is to be regretted that
all this could not have been brought
about last fall, thus securing the
advantage of the present high price
of sugar with a correspondingly
high price for beets, it is perhaps
as well that ii is so, since now the
farmers will have ample time to
plan for the next season and the
management of the new company
for its campaign.
AS a natural corollary of the op-
Grafton of the sugar factory will be
the completion of the Fallon Elec-
trio railway, the grading for which
has already been finished and
which taps one of the finest sugar
beet sections of the project and
will go far toward solving the
question of the long team haul
which has proven serious handicap
during past runs.
Altogether the people of Fallon
may we'll feel elated over the pros
poets for bumper year in 1917.
With the sugar factory in opera
tion, the government leveling lands
for future homesteaders, the cream
cry, another Wingheld benefaction
which has been the mainstay of the
project for the past two years, turn
ing several thousands of dollars
monthly into the channels of trade,
and with the certainty that the high
prices of silver tungsten, copper,
lead and antimony will greatly stini-
ulate activity all over the county
thus providing a new market for
everything raised in the valley. 1t
looks good to us.