Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1903 — Lamar Jo Have a Sugar Factory. [ARTICLE]

Lamar Jo Have a Sugar Factory.

lAt last the people of Lamar, Colorado, where so many Jasper obunty people are interested, are to have the desire of their hearts satisfied, by the location of a beet sugar factory, of large capacity. They have closed a oontraot with Oxnard, the great beet sugar manufacturer, by which be binds himse'f to erect a 1,000 ton sugar faotory there before the end of 1905 Ih return the farmers es tbe region have contracted to raise more than 6,000 acres of beets for a term of five years. The location of this bigfaofoiy is Burely a big thing for Lamar and Prowers oonnty generally, and insures for both a vety prosperous future. The same copy of the Lamar Register which informs us of the sugar faotory. also’gi ves a report of tbe snoeess of Lamar people in securing oontrol of the management of the great Fort Lyon canal company. This is one of the largest irrigating systems in Colorado, is 114 miles lon£, and waters 50,000 acres of splendid farm land," and owns property worth over $1,500,000. Ite annual pay-roll for expenses is $20,000. The directors of tbe oompany, of which our townsman, D. B. Nowels is now one, get $5 per day and expenses, for time actually employed. Mr. Nowels is also treasurer of the oompany,