Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1901 — The Shelby Sugar Eactory. [ARTICLE]

The Shelby Sugar Eactory.

Postmaster Meyer, Will Eger, Bert Hopkins and George Bales went up to Shelby Sunday afternoon to see how the work on the beet sugar factory was progressing; and they all came home with their eyes bulging at the magnitude of what is being done there. The concrete foundation of the main building is about half finished. This building will be 300 feet long by 125 feet wide, and part of it 3 stories and part 5 stories high. A boiler house will be 100 feet by 55 in size. The buildings alone will cost $200,000. One railroad side track is already, completed to the factory site, and two more are to be put in, at once. One hundred families of people expert in the beet cultivating are expected to arrive at Shelby in a day or two from Norfork Neb