People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — TO MAKE. BEET SUGAR. [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE. BEET SUGAR.

The Omaha Commercial Club Close* a Contract for an Extensive Factory. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 28.—After about two weeks of negotiations and conferences the contract has been made between Count Lubienski, representing a Polish syndicate, and the committee of the Commercial club by which a beet sugar factory will bo greeted in this city next year. Count Lubienski agrees to build the factory and bring 200 families of Polish emigrants and will conduct a model farm of 300 acres to teach beet culture. The Commercial club agrees to take SIOO,OOO stock in the factory, which will cost about $1,500,000,and will grow 4,000 acres of sugar beets within a radius of 20 miles of Omaha. The factories at Grand Island and Norfolk have become very successful after only three years’ experience and have produced 6,000,000 pounds of sugar this year. Count Lubienski will establish a smaller factory in the Elknorn valley also. He represents a Polish emigrant society of large capital who wish to get homes and occupations for farmers in this state.