The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1921-03-30
Factory Being
Made Ready
Sugar Factory Plant Il Being Re
habilitated And Plans Made For
1921 Campaign

If the observer wants to see some
genuine wheels of industry all that
needs be done is to make trip to
the big Lahontan Valley Sugar Com
pany's plant in the eastern environs
of Fallon and take note of the tun-
ing-up of machinery that is now in
active progress. These industrial
wheels are shortly to convert many
| thousands of tons of beets from Me-
of sugar. The statement. sugar
beet growing is shortly TO become
Nevada's leading branch of agri-
culture" seems a truism at this
juncture.
Every appurtenant of the big
factory has been found to be in ex-
eellent condition after a shutdown
of four years. From the boiler
room where 1900 horsepower is
represented around and up to the
granulators, every mechanical unit
is fit. This is due to the fact that
the Utah-Neyada Sugar Company,
the last operating concern, left all
metal painted and oiled and rust. a
distinct curse In more humid dis
tricts, has been markedly absent at
the sugar factory. Manager Fred
Hinze has a force OF mechanics put
ting things in shape and work on
the rehabilitation of the plant will
be under way in short time. This
will be confined to providing modern
beet unloading facilities, new juice
pumps, electric motors aggregating
200 horsepower and general clean
ing OF the factory interior. An addi-
tional molasses tank of 5000 bar
rels capacity will be erected.
Unfortunately, a certain amount
of theft occurred during the period
of the factory shutdown. A pipe
fitting machine and several hundred
feet of leather betting were among
the articles purloined. These must
be replaced.
The factory offices have been re-
established and refitted and are
maintained as formerly. Contracts
are coming in daily and a general
spirit of optimism prevails among
the members of the factory organi-
zation every one feeling that doubts
and uncertainties must be cata-
logued under the head of ancient
history and that the future seems
to hold out fullest assurance of
success for the Fallon sugar factory.
Beet seed planting will probably
be under way within the next few
days inasmuch as the first ship
ment of seed arrived in Fallon yes
terday, the carload lot being the
first to reach the Fallon factory
in four years. Much of the first
seed will probably be apportioned
among the farmers of Lassen coun-
ty, Calf. where many have con-
tracted acreage with the factory
management. In the meantime new
contracts are being offered by New
lands project farmers every day and
what seemed an undertaking OF un-
certain ending, now assumes a char
acter carrying more than the usual
degree of certitude of full measure
of success and permanency.
Inc fdllOH ldClOTy nus Deen pass
ed upon by many experienced beet
sugar manufacturers and these have
uniformly offered commentator for
the modernity and substantially
represented. IL WIS built for a
600-ton factory and allowances
have been made for the installation
of additional units that would at
once make IL over into a 1000-ton
factory. Concrete abutments are all
in place for the projected units of
machinery and should the present
year witness the small success that
is in prospect at this time. factory
enlargement may be undertaken so
soon in the future as next season
Farmers here generally understand
that sugar beets and their beet
sugar product must form an indus
try In this valley that will trans
cend all others In importance, no
matter the standpoint from which
comparisons are made.