Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — About the Shelby Sugar Factory. [ARTICLE]

About the Shelby Sugar Factory.

Wheatfield Telephone. In talking with one of the parties interested in the Shelby sugar beet factory the other day, the Journnl was informed that the factory would be built yet this year, but probably not in time to handle the beet crop, which will have to be shipped to some other factory this year. He says the whole trouble lies with the parties who had the contract for erecting the buildings.—Rensselaer Journal. When a man h&B a good thing he works it alone, but when he is in doubt he organizes a stock company and gets himself eleoted to a salaried offioe. This is about the case of the sugar factory. In the beginning it was announced that plenty of oapltal was forthcoming for the enterprise. Now it has readied a point where it may be built if the bonds can be sold. I’ll hazard a guess that it wont be bujlt at all. If the promoters possessed the courage and the currenoy the fact that the contractors threw up the job to take a better one at South Bend, would not have prevented the erection of the

sugar factory. There are others, and jobs like the projected faotory at Shelby would not go begging. Last year the beet industry received a black eye; this year it has had the wind taken out of it in a manner that will require a remarkable ellxier to restore. Those who have tried the beets in this vicinity and endeavored to raise corn on that land since will be very chary about taking hold of it again. The assertion that the beets do not sap the ground to an unusual degree has proved to be a mistake. You don’t have to go far from town to find oorn on ground which has grown beetß one season and the contrast is remarkable. Oorn planted at the same time, in the same field and receiving the same oare shows a variation in size equal to a difference of four weeks time in planting. What the difference in the yield will be remains to be seen. The profit In a sugar beet orop appears to be considerable of a pipe dream.