Government Beet Seed Trials Point to Profitable Sugar Industry
Special correspondence from Washington reports the new agriculture secretary is distributing beet seed for field trials to test local suitability for beet sugar. Henry T. Oxnard provides over half the seed. the rest is purchased. Seed is imported. about five tons in total. Trials advise using light sandy loam and avoid hilly ground. If beets yield over 12 percent sugar, cultivation is profitable. otherwise not. The program aims to locate ideal sites for beet sugar factories and boost farm prosperity through plant construction and employment.
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Washington
Henry T. Oxnard
Nebraska
Department
Idaho Sugar Beet Enterprise Eyeing 3000 Acre Boise Land
James Jennings and Idaho investors plan a 3000 acre tract near Boise to grow sugar beets. They built a 40 mile canal to water the land and experiment with beet seed shipment received. Field Supervisor Austin may travel from Salt Lake to instruct farmers as trials proceed. Bapt. C. A. Granger traveled to Salt Lake today.
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James Jennings
Utah Sugar Co
Idaho
Boise
Snpt
Austin
Salt Lake
McKinley May Visit Utah for Jubilee
President McKinley and his cabinet may travel to Utah if the congress adjourns by July 1. The plan follows assurances given to a Utah delegation at the White House this morning after they were barred from inviting the president to attend the semi centennial jubilee.
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Washington
Congress
McKinley
Utah
White House
Sugar Beet Factory Drive Gains Local Subscriptions
Springville Beet Growers holds monthly meeting with strong attendance. A committee reports encouraging stock subscriptions and crop offers up to 25 percent. Spanish Folk society leaders back Springville site near Mapleton as Mapleton residents push more subscriptions to urge outside capital. Continued united effort expected to secure a factory in a year or two.
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Sugar Beet-Growers Association
Springville
Messrs. Snell
Johnson
Kelly
Jensen
Spanish Folk Society
Mapleton
Sis
Beet Sugar Prospects Grow in Merrillan and West
A brisk campaign unfolds with workers at a factory cleaning machinery and plans to start active beet cultivation. Merrillan residents cheer a sugar plant this year as beets show strong emergence, while wind damage prompts replants and irrigation prep across fields.
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Merrillan
Wis
Debate on Liquor vs War Draws Central School Crowd
The debate by the higher department pupils at Central School on liquor causing more misery than war drew a large audience. The girls argued the negative side and the boys the positive. judges valued language from the negative but delivery and argument from the positive, and the house ruled for the negative.
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Central School
Central
M I A Fair Committee Plans Lehi Exhibit Next Fall
A Lehi M I A Fair committee met to start preparations with a tentative October date. Subcommittees will handle Agriculture Floriculture Art and Curiosities Fancy Work Culinary Mechanical Mineral and overseers will recruit help. A Saturday meeting will decide prizes and awards. Public offers for prizes are welcome.
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Lehi
Edward Southwick
Rhoda Bushman
May Brown
W. Rosa
Laura Salzner
Lizue Peterson
Alice Bone
Mina Evans
Christie Ox
Keddie Bone
Bernard Webb
John Standrog
Francis Child
A Literary Society Planned by Johnson Bros Elocution Class
The Johnson Bros Elocution class hopes to form a literary society in Lehi to support the M I A cause, provide entertainments, and benefit youths. Interested members meet Jesse Smith’s residence Tuesday at 8 p.m. plus a dam breach on Indian Creek caused widespread damage in Beaver County.
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Johnson Bros
Lehi
Jesse Smith
Twitchell
Indian Creek
Beaver County
Lintea
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C. A. Granger
Murdock
Pecos Valley
N. M
Sugar Company
West Jordan
Willis
Mark and
Heber Austin
France
Germany
New York
Logan County
Colorado
N. A. Lunn
Springville Association
Mark Anestin
Jordan River
Salt Lake County
The
M. I. A. Fair
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