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THE TIME TO DECIDE THIS QUESTION HAS ARRIVED. THE OREGON-UTAH. SUGAR COMPANY IS READY, WILLING, AND ARE ABLE TO BUILD A SUGAR
FACTORY IN YOUR VALLEY PROVIDED THAT RELIABLE LAND OWNERS, FARMERS AND ORCHARTDISTS WILL DEVOTE 5,000 ACRES OF SUIT
ABLE LANDS TO SUGAR BEET CULTURE FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS EEGINNING WITH THE SEASON OF 1916.
The Company Wants You land Owners To Sign Up Contracts During The Hexl 30 Days That You Will Grow Beets Kext Season
ON OR ABOUT OCTOBER 20TH, 1915, HEADQARTERS WILL BE OPENED IN THE MEDFORD HOTEL, MEDFORD, AND IN THE JOSEPHINE HOTEL, GRANTS
PASS, OREGON, AND AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN WILL BE CONDUCTED SO THAT YOU MAY DECIDE WHETHER YOU WANT A SUGAR FACTORY
BUILT AND A MILLION DOLLAR INDDUSTRY STARTED.
Salt Lake City, Utah,
October 7th, 1915.
To the Commercial Clubs, Land Owners
and Citizens of Rogue Kiver Valley:
About a year ago the undersigned made
several visits to your valley for the pur
pose of investigating conditions that apper
tain to the establishment of the sugar man
ufacturing industry in the Rogue River
Valley.
Those preliminary investigations were
very encouraging and we later induced
Bishop C. W. Nibley,. one of the principal
. stockholders of the Ten Million Dollar
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company of Salt Lake
City, to visit the valley and meet the repre
sentatives of your commercial clubs and
its many prominent citizens and land own
ers. 1
At the time of Mr. Nibley 's visit it "was
decided that the season was too far ad
vanced to obtain the required acreage to
justify building a sugar factory for the
season of 1915. Owing to the fact that the
growing of sugar beets had not yet been
given a practical tryout in your valley,
Bishop Nibley at that time demanded that
before he would help build a sugar factory
five thousand acres of suitable lands be
first signed up for beet culture, and that
the people of the Kogue Kiver Valley put
$250,000 into the enterprise. It should be
understood that it was not necessary to
obtain money in the Rogue River Valley
in order to build a sugar factory, but it was
felt and deemed important that local peo
ple be financially interested in the new
industry so that it would have a full meas-
. ure of local support, to help insure its suc
cess. As the undertaking was a large one, and
not enough time was left before the grow
ing season of 1915 to work out a business
plan that would enlist the support of the
necessary capital and obtain the necessary
beet contracts, the matter was deferred.
We were satisfied with the result of our
first efforts because of the splendid recep
tion accorded us by your people, and be
cause of the promise of Bishop Nibley that
he was ready and willing to go ahead for
the season of 1916.
, Since the beet meetings that were held
last January in Medford under the aus
pices of the committees of the several com
mercial clubs of your valley, we have kept
right on working on the plan, and we can
now announce that we are ready to go
ahead if you land owners will raise the
beets, and we respectfully ask the commer
cial clubs of Ashland, Medford, Central
Point, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Grants Pass
and other places in the valley, and all its
citizens, to help us obtain the necessary
five thousand acres of beet contracts.
We have recently obtained the necessary
guarantees of local financial support, and
the backing of capitalists, who will build a
factory under certain conditions that they
exact, and the first and most important of
these conditions is that the acreage that
will be devoted hereafter to beet culture
must be signed up at once. .
Copies of beet contracts can be obtained
at any of the commercial clubs or at the
headquarters of the Sugar Company in
Medford Hotel, Medford, and Josephine
Hotel, Grants Pass, or will be mailed on
request.'. We will have a soil and beet ex
pert who will visit your land without ex
pense to you and give you such information
,as you desire about beet culture, and the
headquarters at Medford and Grants Pass '
will be in charge of the undersigned, who
are thoroughly familiar with the culture
of beets and the manufacture of sugar.
The form of the contract we ask you to
sign is the same as that made by the beet
growers of Utah and Idaho, who sell beets
to the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, and
the prices paid to you growers will be the
same as paid in Idaho and Utah, and the
price will be the same F. O. B. at any and
all railroad stations on the Southern Pa
cific between Ashland and Merlin or any
station on the Oregon and California coast.
Last 6pring we caused beet seed to be
widely distributed in your valley, and some
of it was planted and beets have been
grown. These beets have since matured
and samples have been tested and condi
tions observed, proving to our satisfaction
that beet culture and the manufacture of
sugar in your valley will be profitable and
should be its greatest industry. Numerous
tests have also been made of the different
soils in the valley, and the result is that
we ""are convinced that there is at least
fifty thousand acres in the Rogue River
and adjacent valleys adaptable to beet cul
ture. '
The climatic conditions have been pro
nounced ideal, and the patches of beets
planted have convinced us that a fine qual
ity of beets can be grown, and that the ton
nage and percentage of sugar will average
larger than in the other sugar beet dis
tricts of which we have knowledge.
Just as soon as Rogue River Valley
proved up to be an ideal country for beet
culture and the tests of beets was avail
able, the question of the construction of a
beet sugar factory was taken up with Salt
Lake City capitalists, who are familiar and
interested in sugar securities, and the re
sult was that the Oregon-Utah Sugar Com
pany was organized with a paid up capital
of $100,000 and a $500,000 issue of first
mortgage bonds has been provided for con
struction purposes, and a bank credit of
$200,000 to $400,000 to annually handle the
crop and sugar has been arranged for.
It is up to the farmers of Rogue River
Valley to sign up part of their lands for -beet
culture. Their action will determine
whether or not the sugar industry in Ore
gon is started in Rogue River Valley or
elsewhere, as the stockholders of the Oregon-Utah
Sugar Company have made up
their minds to go into the sugar business
in Oregon, and the Rogue River Valley is
its first choice, and if the acreage cannot
be obtained, the company will then decide
on Umpqua or Willamette valleys.
The location of the plant and its site will
be decided by the directors, as soon as the
acreage is signed up and passed on. No
matter where the exact location is, the
farmer can deliver his beets to convenient
loading stations on the Southern Pacific
and California and Oregon coast railroads,
and the price of beets F. O. B. cars will be
the same as though delivered at the fac
tory. As soon as the beet contracts are signed
up, the company proposes to establish per
manent places of business in Medford and .
Grants Pass, for the convenient handling
of the business of both ends of the valley.
TO MAKE SUGAR WE HAVE TO
HAVE THE BEETS, AND BEFORE"
BUILDING A FACTORY AND ISSUING
BONDS WE MUST BE SURE OF TIIE
BEETS. YOU ATTEND TO TIIE BEET
RAISING PART AND WE WILL AR
RANGE THE REST.
A number of important factors enter into
the sugar business and the building of a
factory in a new country.
First: It must be certain that enough
beets will be raised to keep a sugar factory
running.
Second: To arrange contracts in time to
have the plant built and ready. (Sept. 1,
1916, in this case.)
Third: The national tariff question and
the prospects of a market for sugar at reas
onable prices.
Fourth: The consummation of the pre
liminary financial arrangements that have
been made to carry out the plans as soon
as it is definitely decided upon.
Fifth: Satisfactory freight rates must
be arranged for, and contracts must be
made for lime, coal, coke and wood and
other necessities used in large quantities.
Sixth: The best seed question is a vital
one tMs year, as the German supply is now
cut off. We can get seed if we decide on
the amount and place the order for it at
once.
FACTS ABOUT THE SUGAR
INDUSTRY.
We think a few facts about the sugar in
dustry will be in point and interesting.
Last year the sugar manufactured in Utah
had a value of approximately $9,000,000.
The money paid out directly to farmers for
beets amounted to about $4,250,000. A
similar state of affairs exists in Idaho, and
the output in Utah and Idaho will be in
creased this year nearly 40 per cent.
This year 64,000 acres of beets were
grown in Utah (compared to 45,400 acres
last year), 40,000 acres in Idaho and over
100,000 acres in Colorado. In Colorado the
value of the sugar industry ranks along
with its gold production. Do you want
these conditions duplicated in Oregon and
have Rogue River Valley the home of the
industry and be a great sugar center, a
thing that Salt Lake City now enjoys?
The sugar industry benefits all classes
of people and all other business. The sugar
company will immediately bring prosper
ity to the farmers as it is a cash crop, and
their crop is sold to the sugar company
' before the seed is planted. A sugar factory
gives employment to labor, teamsters, and
stimulates the transportation business gen
erally. It uses large quantities of coal,
wood, limestone, power, etc. The building
of our factory in Rogue River Valley will
put more than $1,000,000 of new outside
money in your banks every year. It will
give the farmer a good loan value for his
lands. The industry is a big taxpayer and,
what is more, it puts new life in the whole
business community and new money to do
business with. Each year your commun
ities that raise beets will get richer and the
lands used for beet culture improve.
The sugar industry will also stimulate
the livestock industry. Your valley will
have cattle, hogs and poultry to sell in
abundance. New industries will spring up,
such as more dairies, meat packing houses,
canneries, etc. Big canneries with home
made sugar and syrup means a market for
fruit that now goes to wiste.
THERE IS ONE FEATURE OF THE
SUGAR BUSINESS YOU PEOPLE
OUGHT TO KNOW, AND THAT IS,
THAT TIIE SUGAR BUSINESS IS A
MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS.
You cannot go into the sugar business
profitably without resources of more than
a million dollars.
If you want to go into the sugar busi
ness, you will find that by the time you
make up your mind to build a factory, and
obtain the necessary beet contracts, you
are out $10,000, and by the time you are
ready to let a contract to build a factory,
you will have to have $100,000 in hand,
and the cost of the factory and appurte
nances runs from $500,000 to $600,000, and
it requires from $200,000 to $400,000 (ac
cording to size of crop) to pay fanners for
the beets and carry the sugar until it is
sold.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ARE
GOOD PEOPLE.
The new company's Officers and Direct
ors are all responsible men who understand
the sugar business, and already have a
large sum invested in it, and have made
money out of the sugar industry.
The Directors of the Oregon-Utah Sugar
Company are C. W. Nibley, capitalist, who
is probably the largest individual factor in
the great sugar industries of Utah and.
Idaho; O. C. Beebe, cashier and manager of
the Zion's Bank and Trust Company and
vice-president of the Utah Savings and
Trust Company; Rodney T. Badger, vice
president and manager of Utah State Na
tional Bank; Bishop David A. Smith, capi
talist; and Harold Reed Smoot, investment
banker, all of whom reside in Salt Lake;
and George E. Sanders, president of the
Kogue River Public Service Corporation;
and Alex Nibley, secretary of Oregon-Utah
Sugar Company.
The officers of the company are C. W. ',
Nibley, president; George PI. Sanders, vice
president; O. C. Beebe, treasurer; Alex
Nibley, secretary, and F. S. Bramwell, field
superintendent. All of these officers are
personally familiar with and acquainted in
Rogue River Valley, and Mr. C. W. Nibley
has been identified with the development
of Eastern Oregon for the past thirty years,
and lived in Baker, Oregon, for several
years.
IT IS NOW SQUARELY UP TO YOU
PEOPLE OF ROGUE RIVER VALLEY
TO DECIDE IF YOU WANT TIIE OREGON-UTAH
SUGAR COMPANY TO GO
AHEAD AND BUILD A SUGAR FAC
TORY IN YOUR VALLEY AND ESTAB
LISH A GREAT INDUSTRY IN YOUR
MIDST. IT MEANS TIIE INITIAL IN
VESTMENT OF ONE MILLION DOL
LARS. More capital in other industries will fol
low, and it will soon increase the taxable
value of Jackson and Josephine counties,
an amount which is easily estimated at
$10,000,000. It appears to us that all
Rogue River Valley needs is more indus
tries that will bring in new money anil em
ploy the people it now has, and those who
will come when a state of prosperity ex
ists. The Oregon-Utah Sugar Company is
willing, if you will grow beets, to locate in
your valley because of your superior clim
ate and natural conditions for beet culture,
and because the sugar business is, gener
ally speaking, only profitable in countries
that are already liberally peopled, and
which have a good geographical location,
and that are well developed in other
words, a section like Rogue River Valley,
that has passed the pioneer stage. Are
you now willing to go in for a big industry
that will hold up your reputation?
Any information you desire will be sup
plied at our headquarters in Medford and
Grants Pass.
Respectfully submitted, .
ALEX NIBLEY,
F. S. BRAMWELL,
Of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Company.
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