Payette County ID Archives News.....A Beet Sugar Factory in Site February 10, 1905 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com March 21, 2006, 5:59 am New Plymouth Outlook February 10, 1905 New Plymouth Outlook New Plymouth, Idaho Friday, February 10, 1905 A Beet Sugar Factory In Site MEETING AT NEW PLYMOUTH TOMORROW NIGHT The beet sugar business has been receiving considerable attention among our farmers and business men the past ten days. Caldwell and Nampa have in turn been straining their necks for a beet sugar factory for several years, and now Payette will have her inning. G. W. Atkinson, representing W. D. Hoover, of Eaton, Colorado and indirectly the Havemeyer Company, met the commercial club and citizens of Payette last Thursday and presented his proposition. He requires three things. First, a bonus of $10,000; second, 20 acres of ground for a site; third 4,000 acres in sugar beets for the seasons of 1906, 1907 and 1908 . The promoters of the factory will be required to put up a $10,000 bond for the fulfillment of their part of the agreement. A committee composed of C. E. Brainard, P. A. Devers, Ben Strobehn, D. W. Thompson, B. P. Shawhan and M. F. Albert was appointed with power to appoint sub-committees. Over 500 acres of beets were contracted for at the meeting, and it is intended to make a thorough canvas of the bench to see how many farmers can be induced to raise beets for three years at $5 per acre. It is said that from fifteen to thirty- five tons to the acre can be raised on our irrigated ground and it has been demonstrated by experiments that beets raised here bear the highest test as to the saccharine or sugar matter they contain. It is said that back in Nebraska the climate is too dry for successful beet raising, and that the new factories will be placed in irrigated districts wherever possible. The proposed factory is to cost $750,000, and ought to be a great benefit to our people if established. A meeting will be held tomorrow (Saturday) evening at the town hall, when our farmers should all turn out and try to get the proper understanding of the great question now up for solution. It is now quite certain that alfalfa will not long continue a profitable crop on land which is an immensely productive and valuable as that of the Payette bench. The old- country, intensive methods of getting out of the soil every dollar there is in it must now be employed by the progressive farmers of the Payette bench. Along this line let us examine carefully sugar-beet raising which with other vegetables, tables, fruit raising, hay, dairying, etc. will put farming here on the highly remunerative and respectful basis which it deserves. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb