Beets and Sugar: A Promising Home Industry Gains Attention
The Scientific American highlights sugar beet as a profitable domestic industry to curb gold outflow. Kansas Nebraska Dakotas California and Utah grow beets with irrigation boosting yields. California produced about 20 million pounds of beet sugar in 1802, with yields per acre from twelve to forty tons and costs from eight to twelve pounds of beets per 24 pounds of sugar depending on beet richness.
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Scientific American
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
California
Utah
Germany
New York
Sugar beet proposition gains support for a western factory
In Colorado growers push for a two cent per pound import duty on sugar to aid local manufacturing. Farmers plan experimental beet plantings and increased acreage this spring as activists lobby Congress and denounce the sugar trust for seeking free raw material. Field and Farm.
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Congress
West
Ways and Means
Sugar Trust
Pecos Valley Sugar Beet Land Offer Near Florence Depot
Land offer for 240 acres of sugar beet soil one mile from Florence depot with minimal mesquite. Prospective cultivators to agree to cultivation, water rent and taxes paid. Mexican worker paid per acre per day. location Wixutas Turtle Central City Colorado.
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Florence Depot
Central City
Colo
Beet Sugar Items From Old News Clippings
The article reports on beet sugar in Russia increasing acreage to 51 000 acres and Pecos Valley factory paying 450 a ton for beets with 12 percent sugar and 80 percent purity. It notes seed analyses, experimental seed planting, anticipated ten to fifteen acres of seed, and a preliminary campaign described as a signalised success. It also mentions forthcoming sugar price advances and irrigation beet projects in Utah, New Mexico, and Nebraska.
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Russia
Pecos Valley
Farimere
Wwe
Argus
Foex
Peecs Valley Sugar Company
Utah
Lehi
Denver
Grand Island
Gibbon
Norfolk News
New Mexico
Nebraska
Funeral for Mrs. Hyrum Smith Held at Meeting House
The funeral for Mrs. Hyrum Smith was held at the meeting house with Bishop Cutler in charge and John L. Gibb directing the choir. Speakers spoke of her many good qualities as a large cortege followed to the resting place. Born in West Jordan, she spent life in Lehi leaving a husband and seven children.
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Hyrum Smith
Bishop Cutler
John L. Gibb
Joseph Andreason
James Kirkham
Oley Ellingson
T. R. Cutler
Wm. Southwick
Thomas Fowler
West Jordan
Lehi
Beck
Saratoga Springs
John Beck, Jr
Gee
Pasific Lumber Co
Salt Lake
Epinga
Jordan River
Becc
Beck Hae
LO Acre
Messrs
George Beck
Wm. Hansen
Pacific Lumber Co
Program For Next Sunday Evening At Church Event
A church program lists events including a lecture on Church Organization by James M Kirkham and The Holy Ghost by John B Merrill. Miss Christie Fox and Miss Mary Smith perform readings and songs with instrumental pieces by Joseph Smith and Richard Kirkham.
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James M Kirkham
Christie Fox
the Holy Ghost
John B. Merrill
Star
Mary Smith
Jennie Allred
Joseph Smith
Richard Kirkham
B. J. Anderson
Dispute Keeps Company From Playing at Lehi Opera House
The American Folk Home Dramatic company did not perform Saturday at Lehi Opera House due to a disagreement with Mr. Garff over licensing and revenue. The company had hired the house for 18 dollars and sought a percentage share, which Garff refused, causing them to return to American Fork.
Sunday School Conference Planned in Lehi
Lehi grainy item reports a Sunday School conference set for May. It notes a diphtheria case in the James Goates family and updates school hours to nine to three thirty.
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Lehi
James Goates
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