El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07

Z not paying proposition, would the
industry have grown this way2
Beet Test High Here.
The average beet production in the
Rocky Ford district was Is tons to the
I acre in 1913 and 1914. when I was
there In this valley. we will run
much better The tests We have made
: TINS summer. compared with tests
made in Colorado. show our beets with
Z two per cent more sugar than the
colorado beets. and SIS per cent ahead
of the Colorado beets on purity. their
! beets running so per cent pure and our
! beetS running S6.6.
Just as sure as daylight follows
! darkness, hog raising and cattle rails
Z ing are going to follow the growing Of
! sugar oeets and then you are going to
! see real prosperity in this valley"
The beet sugar pulp is sold back to
/ the producers at s. cents a ton and 1t
I can be hauled back to their farms at
I the same rate the factory gets on the
beets to the factory. which is usually
about one cent a ton a mile One
acre Of beet tops is equal in forage
constituency to any ton Of alfalfa,
and I believe IL is better
All Farmers Get Same Price.
The sugar factory at Las Cruces Is
going TO be of just as much value to
Fl PasOans as to Las Cruces people
because the factory viii buy the beets
at IS a ton delivered to the railroad
station nearest the farm where they
are grown. absorbing all the freight
above or below Fl Paso-
r. B. Holt who accompanied Mr..
Vaudeville 10 FL Paso. and who opened
the meeting. asserted that IL was the
duty of FL Paso. he believed, to help
get this factory. for" said he. the
Mesilla valley is tributary TO FL PasO
and what benefits il, benefits you. |
Then the very fact that your people |
here can get the same price for their I
beetS that our people can get. makes I
i as much your factory as il is our /
factory.
We must get crops here that will I
yield the farmers more money than I
the crops they are now growing For /
land worth as much as our land. the 1
crops We are producing are not net .
Beets Bring Prosperity.
Mr.. Vaudeville touched on this point,
too. and said:
IN Colorado. we were trying to
make a living growing wheat. selling
At % cents a oushel and raising IA
bushels TO the acre The farmers
couldn't pay their bank obligations or /
their taxes We began to grow sugar !
beets and the farmers began to lift
When a farmer gets $500 or $500
1t one time for a crop. he goes around
and pays his debts. but when he sells
a ton Of alfalfa for so or SIS. he puts
the money in his pocket is not
enough 10 pay a debt-and the first |
thing he knows. II is gone and his
still stand. Beet growing (
will be followed by cattle raising and I
hog raising. and then you are going
to see prosperous farmers. able TO 7
meet their obligations and with money I
to spend for good homes and autOmo- ]
5iles- They have done il in Colorado I
and they can do il here.
Conditions Here All Favorable
an Colorado. they are never certain
4 water; in fact in some of the dis
riots, the drouth catches them and !
hey raise as small as seven tons Of
oeets TO the acre. but still beets are
he best paying crop Here we can al
ways set water, we have the best soil
n the world and there is no reason /
Thy We cannot make beet sugar grow
ng the biggest thing ever under
AIKEN
8ir- Broaddus and his committee
Will meet this afternoon at ( o'clock
II the Rio Grande Valley bank They
net Friday evening for a short time.
.fter the bigger meeting in the cham
Ter OF commerce. and they have been I
working TODAY for a whirlwind cam
laign that viii sign up E Paso acre
-ge in a few hours or days at most
They wish TO have IL out OF the way
'efore the opening Of the Soil Pro-
iucts exposition next week