Payette County ID Archives News.....Sugar Beets Again February 17, 1905
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New Plymouth Outlook February 17, 1905
New Plymouth Outlook
New Plymouth, Idaho
Friday, February 17, 1905
 
SUGAR BEETS AGAIN
 
A rousing meeting of one hundred farmers was held last Saturday evening at the 
town hall, and the enthusiasm aroused is not to be allowed to diminish for 
another meeting is already set for next Monday night at Creasey's hall.
 
The meeting on Saturday night was presided over by Mr.  Walter Burke, 
president of the New Plymouth Commercial Club.  Mr. Brainard, from Payette, 
was present to make plain to the people the plans of the company and to tell 
what they demanded of the farmers and business men of the Payette valley.  He 
read the contract between the company and the beet raiser, so that there would 
be nothing concealed about the proposition before our farmers.  Messrs. Hardy, 
Hunter, and Eiffe, of Pleasant View, were up to help along the cause.  Mr. 
Hardy, a former beet raiser in Colorado, where they now have five factories in 
operation within a radius of one hundred miles, spoke at considerable length.  
He was very anxious for our farmers to take up beet-raising and to make the 
sugar beet one of their staple crops.  He thinks that our soil and general 
conditions here are more favorable to beet raising than in Colorado, and said 
there was no reason why the farmers here could not raise twenty to twenty-five 
tons of sugar beets to the acre.  Mr. Hardy promises an article for the 
Outlook on his experience with beets.  Mr. Dawe, the electric railway 
promoter, was present and told our people that the success of the beet sugar 
proposition would practically assure the access of the railroad movement, 
which is holding back through lack of sufficient freight tonnage.
 
As a result of the meeting here contracts for raising 300 acres have been 
signed, and about 500 at Pleasant View.  Altogether about 1,200 acres have 
been contracted for, and a we are only required to secure contracts for 2,000 
acres of beets in the Payette valley, by May 1, the prospects for a factory 
look very bright.  And then with the electric railway, the government ditch, 
the big saw mill and the other enterprises which will naturally follow, the 
Payette valley will forge to the front beyond the fondest hopes of its 
residents.

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