The Ordway new era., 1920-12-17
Beet Growers to
Meet on Monday

The Mountain States Beet Growers
Association, made up of the growers
of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
Nebraska, held a meeting in Denver
on Monday of this week with approx
imately 200 representatives in ses-
sion. Ed Whitney OF Ordway repre-
sented the Crowley County Beet
Growers Association, and will have :
report to make at the meeting of the
county association to be held on Mon
day night of next week, December 20.
Thegrowers want o fifty-fifty split
with the sugar companies before 4
contract is signed for next years
crop. The growers assert that they
sre not satisfied with the manufact-
urers taking so to 20 per cent of the
value of the crop as their share, since,
as they claim, it costs less to manu-
facture sugar than it does TO grow
the beets. The fifty-fife price is bas-
ed on sugar seaboard for / 2 months.
The growers claim that they have
never received their just proportion
ON the sugar beet crop. They back
up their demands for half the price
the sugar in the beet brings, by fig
ures and reports that have been COM
piled from all sections. Mr. Whitney
will go into details in his report next
Monday night, as he is-now preparing
II and will bring out the figures as
cleaned from the different beet
growing sections of the four states.
The labor question was one of the
things discussed at length and the
growers it was found are not
opposed to the Mexican and Russian
''bor as had been put out, realizing
that it is necessary, in many districts
ct least. to have such labor. They
are opposed, however, to the general
iportation of such foreign labor.
At the meeting Monday officers for
the coming year We're elected as fol-
lows:
Fred Cummings, of Fort Collins.
President.
H. C. Beggs, of Fort Morgan, Vice
President.
Geo NJ. Houston. of Greeley, Sec
retary and Treasurer.
The board of directors is made up
of representatives from each factory
district
There was committee on con-
tract appointed composed of r. r..
Drennen of Fort Morgan; Ed Whit
ney of Ordway. B. A. McMurray of
Fort Collins, George M. Houston of
Greeley. James Bollinger of Brush,
Fred Ehrman of Gehring. Nebr..
James Rosenfelt of SCOTS Bluff,
Nebr.. James Whitehead of Mitchell.
Nebr.
In the Mountain States meeting
Crowley County was looked upon as
one OF the very important districts
IN the association and was commend
cd for the good work being done
here.
In order to ascertain conditions as
they exist in the Fort Lupton district
where the Industrial Sugar Co. oper-
ates, Mr.. Whitney went to the general
office and gathered few facts and
figures of interest.
Up to December Is the company
lad received 95,233.2 tons of beets
for which it had paid the sum OF
$61O,762. 80.
There is a total of 400 acres in
the factory district for that plant
and grinding will be finished by about
February 10, and approximately 130,-
coo bags of sugar will have been
made from this acreage.
One of the interesting points MIR.
Whitney found was the fact that the
average was IA tons to the acre of
beets on the 200 acres. The sugar
content averaged 1856 per cent with
a purity of SO per cent. These fig
ures were taken from the books of
the company by Mr.. Whitney while
up to attend the general meeting.