The Alaska daily empire., 1918-12-23
Sugar Beets Are Success fully Grown in Yukon
 Territory; and Prod
 uCt Is Satisfactory.
NEW FIELD FOR NORTH
Dawson Man Says Thous- ands of Acres in Yukon and Alaska for Sugar
 Beet Culture.

DAWSON, Dec. 13-Dawson News. A sample of new and most sig nificent product of the Yukon has been presented to the editdr of the Dawson News by George Stevens of Eureka Creek It is sample Of syrup made from sugar beets grown on Eureka Creek, within forty-five miles of Dawson. The beets were grown there in the gardens of MT Stevens and his partner, Charles Fraser Hill. They are pioneer min CTS of that creek, and have been there producing placer gold for many years. Mir Stevens is enthusiastic over the new product of the soil, and deservedly so, as it may lead to one
 )f the largest and most far-reaching
 industries of the Northland. Sue cess in the growing of sugar beets
 )n the wholesale and the manufac
 .ure of sugar and syrup from the
 tame may lead to one of the perma
 ,ont industries of this region MT
 Stevens says:
 "Tte beets from which we made
 )ur new syrup were grown right on
 .u~eka Creek, and we feel proud
 If the fact for the particular reason
 hat Eureka Creek is one of the
 ~emote places as compared to the
 main banks of the Yukon, and it is
 ! cold creek. The temperature there
 s much lower than nearer the Yu
 lon river, or in the vicinity of Daw
 ;on If we can raise such good
 ,pecimens of beets there as we did
 certainly the sugar beets should
 flourish to far greater advantage nearer Dawson or in the larger and
 over valleys of the Yukon and Al ska. No doubt there are hundreds If thousands of acres of the bottom lands of Yukon and Alaska adapted 70 the cultivation of such beets The tact opens visions of great crops )f beets eventually being harvested n the Northland, and the country producing all the sugar and syrup needed for it's own use and for ship nent to other lands.
 "It is a well known fact that Yu- kon and Alaska are producing now practically all the potatoes, celery, turnips, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower md similar vegetables needed for ! their own use. They also grow the rest of table beets. The vegetables of these lands cannot be equaled IT. I ,ucculence, size and general quality. | The midnight sun added to the mid lay sun of this Northern latitude forces the growth of these yeget- lbles giving them their rapid and superior quality. The same advant- ages should obtain with sugar beet crops.
 "'The sugar beet is an article that gives promise of a commercial in ,ustry for the North. It should go | far in making this land of produc- ion auxiliary to or even independent
 to the parent industry of mining. | The Government should lend every | encouragement in the fullest inves- | tigation.
 "The sugar .beets which we grew | were of large variety. Each beet | was as thick as mans arm, and weighed pound or more apiece. "In making our beet molasses we first wash the beets thoroughly, slice thin; add three quarts of wa ter to every ten pounds of beets, | slack two ounces of lime and let
 the water settle. and add the same
 to the beets while boiling; then strain
 the syrup and let it simmer to the thickness desired
 We had only fifteen pounds of
 beets in the experimental crop this year, but have sent for more seeds.
 hope others will send for sugar
 beet seeds and also, make expert
 ments the coming season"