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

p L PASO valley farmers viii sign
up 1900 TO $500 acres Of sugar
- beets for 1917. If the committee
named by the chamber of commerce
Friday afternoon. has its way.
After listening 10 W X Vaudeville
and H. B. Holt, OF Las Cruces. discuss
sugar beets and their value as a crop
TO the land owner. the meeting re-
solved Immediately to appoint a COM
mittee of ten TO begin at once q can
vas for signatures pledging land here
abouts.
DR.. B. N Worsham was the first to
sign. He contracted to put 50 acres
H. ". Broaddus. who suggested the
appointment of the committee, said he
would sign
c H. Leaven said he would sign up
200 acres
Mr.. Broaddus was named chairman
of the committee Others on II are
Dr. B. VI. Worsham. Winchester Cooley,
James L. Mari, George r LeBaron, W
C. Rowe sam b Gillett. ! J. Mundy,
Il 7. Bowie and John NJ Wyatt
Acreage Not Limited.
I'VE have 1000 acres signed up by
actual farmers" said Mr.. Vaudeville,
addressing the Fl PasOans, and about
600 or zoo acres that are assured We
must plant 1000 acres in sugar Deets TO
get the sugar factory which the Holly
Beet Sugar company. of Colorado. IS
10 erect at Las Cruces The business
men Of Las Cruces have agreed 10
guarantee this acreage what we now
want TO do is to get farmers to plant
this acreage. We want the actual lana
owners to get the profits. If FL Paso
will sign $500 acres. this will complete
the total, but If We can get 1900 acres
il will help US out a great deal your
acreage here is not limited, Tor me
factory can take care Of much
larger tonnage than will be grown on
70OO acres.
President R b Orndorff. Of the
chamber Of commerce, who presided az
the meeting. said he thought It would
be one Of the best things the farmers
Of the FL PasO valley could do II
they would sign up for beets' ana ne .
believed the necessary acreage could I
he secured. Mr. Vaudeville said ne /
wanted it by the goth OF October, when 4
he is TO go to Colorado TO take some I
of the beets grown. IN the Mesllls !
valley this year. TO have their sugar +
content tested
Profits Are Big.
In his talk TO the business men as
seubled for the meeting. Mr. Mande-
vile said the farmers We're TO receive .
s. a ton for their beets. and that a .
conservative estimate OF the experts
Of the Holly company was that the
land would grow IA tons to the acre.
although on a test piece planted at
Las cruces this year, II has run over
7Q tons to the acre The estimated
cost Of production. he said would be
not over $50 an acre. leaving net
profit Of $40 an acre TO each farmer
on a 14-ton basis
There is nothing not open and
above board about this proposition"
he said These people are coming in
here because they are personal friends
OF mine Thy made their original in
vestfgations against their own wishes
and found conditions so favorable that
fbav- beca me -. rhrsia site their expert :
made a report more roseate than I
would have dare write
Must Make Money For Farmers.
The beet sugar industry is the only
rne that 1 know where the manufac-
turer does not absolutely have the
producer at his mercy II the beets
10 not pay the farmers. they viii not
grow them: then there Is nothing TO
keep up the factories, for the product
cannot be shipped in from great dis
.ances. The sugar factory people must /
ma Ike the farmers want TO raise beets
# the factory is TO make anything out
Of it. and to make farmers want TO /
grow q crop, you must make money for
The farmer
When the industry was started in
Colorado. we sliced $1,000 tons the
first year. This year they will slice +
Two million tons a year The first
year Of the industry in the Rocky
-Ord district, about $3.50 were spent
This year the expenditure in the sugar
'eet industry will be 1900. 600 The
-irst years acreage was $500; this year
hey have $500 acres in beets in the
Rocky Ford district alone If it was