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"I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER1 12, 1015 ' i " ' - i ii1"" PAGE THREE $MX Do You Want to Be a Par ty to the Establishment of a Great Industry in Rogue River Valley? ? T ? t t it T T T t t t f t T T f f V T ? T . ? t T t ' ? t ? ? ? t t ? T ? t f ? ? t ? t ? ? ? X t y ? T ? t ? ? r Y t f t ? ? ? ? ? t t ? t ? ? ? Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y T Y ! i 1 I i THE TIME TO DECIDE THIS QUESTION HAS ARRIVED. THE OREGON-UTAH SUGAR COM PANY IS READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO BUILD A SUGAR FACTORY IN YOUR VALLEY PROVIDED THAT RELIABLE LAND OWN ERS, FARMERS AND ORCHARDISTS WILL DEVOTE 5000 ACRES OF SUITABLE LANDS TO SUGAR BEET CULTURE FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS, BEGINNING WITH THE SEA SON OF 1916. The Company wants you laud owners to sign up contracts during the next 30 days that you will grow beots4next season. On or about October 20th, 1915, headquarters will be opened in the Medford Hotel, Medford, and in the) Josephine Hotel, Grants Pass, Oregon, and an' edu cational campaign will be conducted so that you may decide whethor you want a sugar factory built and a million dollar industry started. M i Salt Lake City, Utah1, October 7th, 1915. TO ITIE COMMERCIAL CLUBS, LAND OWN ..'..ERS AND CITIZENS OF ROGUE RIVER VAL LEY: About a year ago the undersigned made several visits to vour valley for the purpose of investigating conditions that appertain to the establishment oL the sugar manufacturing industry in the Rogue River valley. Those preliminary investigations were very en couraging and we later induced Bishop C. W. Isib-. ley, one of the principal stockholders of the Ten Mil lion Dollar Utah-Idaho Sugar Company of Salt Lake City, to visit the valley and meet the representa tives of your Commercial clubs and its many promi nent citizens and land owners. At the time of Mr. Nibley's visit it was decided that the season was too far advanced to obtain the required acreage to .justify building a sugar fac tory for seasoniof1915, Owing to the fact that tho, growing of sugar btets had not yet been given a practical trvout in yolir valley, Bishop Nibley at that time demanded Hint before he would help build a sugar factory that five thousand acres of suitable lands be first signed up for beet culture, and that the people of Rogue River valley put $250,000 into thiv enterprise. It should be understood that it was not necessary to obtain money in Rogue River valley in order to build a sugar factory, but it was felt and deemed important that local people bo financially interested in the new industry so that it would have a full measure of local support, to help insure its suc cess. As the undertaking was a large one, and not enough time was left before the growing season oP 19.15 to work out a business plan that would enlist the support of the necessary capital aiftl obtain the necessary beet contracts, the mutter was deferred. We were satisfied with the result of our first efforts, because of the splendid reception accorded us by your people, and because of the promise of Bishop Nibley that he was ready and willing to go ahead for the season of 1916. Since iho beet meolangs that were held last Jan uary in Medford under; the auspices of the commit tees of the several commercial clubs of the valley, wo have kept right on working on the plan and wo can now announce that we are ready to go ahead if yqii land owners will raise the beets, and we respectfully ask the Commercial clubs of Ashland, Medford, Cen tral Point, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Grants Pass and other places in the valley, and all its citizens, to help us obtain the necessary 5000 acres of beet contracts. We have recently obtained the necessary guaran tees of local financial support and the backing of capitalists, who will build a factory under certain conditions that they exact, and tho first and most important of these conditions is that tho acreage that will bo devoted hereafter to beet culture must bo signed up at once. Copies of beet contracts can bo obtained at any of tho 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 expert who will visit your land without expense to you and give you such information as you desiie about beet cul ture, and tho headquarters at Medford and Grants. Pass will bo in charge of tho undersigned, who aro thoroughly familiar with the culture of beets and the manufacture of sugar. The form of the contract wo ask you to sign isi 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 Tdahoand Utah, and the price will bo the same F. O. B. at any and all railroad sta tions on the Southern Pacific between Ashland and Merlin or any station on the Oregon and California coast. Last spring we caused beet seed to be widely dis tributed 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 iildus " 1ry. Numerous tests have also bejen made of the dif ferent soils in the valley, and tho result is that wo are convinced that thcro is at least fifty thousand acres in Rogue River and adjaceirt valleys adaptable to beet culture. , The climatic conditions have been pronounced ideal, and the patches of beets planted have con vinced us that a fine quality of bjects can bo growu, and that the tonnage and percentage of sugar will average larger than in the other sugar beet districts 4 which we have knowledge. Just as soon as Rogue River valley proved Up to be an ideal country for beet culture and the tostsk of beets was available, the question of the construction of a beet sugar factory was taken up with SaltLako City capitalists, who arc familiar and interested in sugar securities, and the result was that tho Oregon Utah Sugar Companv was organized with a paid-up capital of $100,000 and a $500,000 issue of first mort gage bonds has been provided for construction pur poses, and a bank credit of $200,000 to $400,000 to annually handle the crop and sugar has bceil ar ranged for. It is up to the farmers of Rogue River valley to sigiwip part of their lands for beet culture. Their action will determine whether or not the sugar in dustry in Oregon 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 tho Rogue River valley.Js its first choice, and if the acreage cannot bVBbtaincd. the Company then will decide on Ump qua or Willamette valleys. The location of the plant and its site will be de cidofl by tho directors as soon as the acreage is signed lip and passed on. No matter where the exact lo'ca tion is, the farmer can deliver h heels to convenient loading stations on the Southern Pacific and Califor nia and Oregon Coast railroads, and the price of beets F. O. B. cars will be the same as though deliv ered at the factory. . As soon as the beei contracts nn signed up, the Company proposes to establish permanent places of business in Medford and Grants Pass, for the con venient 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 THE BEETS. YOU ATTEND TO THE BEET RAISING PART AND WE WILL ARRANGE THE REST. A number of important factors enter into tho--sugar business and the building of a factory in a new, country. . First Tt must bo 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. (September 1, 191G, in this case). Third The national tariff question and the pros pects of a market for sugar at reasonable prices. Fourth The consummation of the preliminary financial arrangements that have been made to carry out the plan as soon as it is definitely decided upon. , Fifth Satisfactory freight rates must be ar ranged for; and contracts must bo made for lime, coal, coke and wood and other necessities used in large quantities. Sixth The beet seed question is a vital one this year;;as the German supply is now cut off. We can got 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 industry .wil) be in point and interesting. Last year tho 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 stale of affairs exists in Idaho, and tho output in Utah and Idaho will be increased this year nearly 40 per cent. This year (54,000 acres of beets were grown in Utah (compared to 45,100 aeres last year); 40,000 acres in' Idaho and over 100,000 acres in Colorado. In Colorado tho value of tho sugar industry ranks along with its gold production. .1)0 YOU 'WANT THESE CONDITIONS DUPLICATED IN ORE GON AND HAVE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY THE HOME OF THE INDUSTRY AND 1JE A GREAT SUGAR CENTER, A THING TIIA'l SALT LAKE CITY NOW ENJOYS? it . The tjugar industry benefits all classes of people and all other business. The Sugar Company will im mediately bring prosperity to the fanners, as it is a cash crop, and their crop is sold to the sugar com pany before the seed is planted. A sugar factory giytjs employment to labor, teamsters, and stimulates the transportation business generally. It uses largo 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 monoy in your banks every year. It will give the farmer a good loan value for his lands. The industry is a big tax payer, and, what is more, it puts now life in tho whole business community and new money to do bus iness with. Each year your communities that raise beets will get richer and the lands used for beet cul ,ture improve. The si)gar industry will also stimulate tho live stock industry. Your valley will have cattle, hogs and poultry to sell in abundance. New industries will spring up such as more dairies, mcat-packin'g houses, canneries, etc. Big canneries with home made sugar and syrup means a market for fruit that now goes to waste. THERE IS ONE FEATURE OF THE SUGAR BUSINESS YOU PEOPLE OUGHT TO KNOW, AND THAT IS THAT THE SUGAR BUSINESS IS A MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS. You cannot go into the sugar bushicss profitably without resources of more than a million dollars. If you want to go into the sugar business 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 aro ready to let a contract to build a factory, you will have to havo $100,000 in hand, and the cost of tho factory and ap purtenances runs from $500,000 to $000,000, and, it requires from $200,000 to $400,000 (according to size of crop) to pay farmers for the beets and carry-the sugar until it is sold. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ARE GOOD PEOPLE Tho now Company's Officers and Diroctors aro air responsible men who understand tho sugar business and already havo a largo sum invested in it, and havo snado monoy out of the sugar industry. Tho Directors of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Com pany are: C. W. Nibley, capitalist, who is probably the largest individual factor in the great sugar indus tries of Utah and Idaho; O. C. Bcebe, cashier and manager of the Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Com pany and vice-president of tho Utah Savings & Trust Company; Rodney T. Badger, vice-president and manager of Utah State National Bank; Bishop David A. Smith, capitalist; and Harold Reed Smoot, investment banker, all of whom reside in Salt Lake; and George E. Sanders, president of Tho Roguo River Public Service Corporation, and Alex, Nibley, secre tary of Oregon-Utah Sugar Company. Tho officers of tho company are: C. W. Nibley, President; George E. Sanders, Vice-President; O. O. Beobe, Treasurer; Alox. Nibley, Secretary, and F. S. Bramwcll, Field Superintendent. All of these offic ers aro personally familiar with and acquainted in Rogue River valley, and Mr. C. AY Nibley has been identified with tho development of Eastern Oregon for the past .'10 years, and lived in Baker, Oregon, for several years. IT IS NOW SUARELY UP TO YOU PEOPLE OF ROGUE RIVER VALLEY TO DECIDE' IF YOU WANT THE OREGON-UTAH SUGAR COM PANY TO GO AHEAD AND BUILD A SUGAR FACTORY IN YOUR VALLEY AND ESTAB LISH A GREAT INDUSTRY IN YOUR MIDST. IT MEANS THE INITIAL INVESTMENT OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS. More capital in other industries will follow, and it will soon increase tho taxable value of Jacksou and Josephine counties, an amount which is easily estimated at $10,000,000. It appears to us that all Roguo River valley needs is more industries that will bring in new money and employ the people it now has, and those who will come when a state of prosperity exists. , The Oregon-Utah Sugar Company is willing, M' you will grow beets, to locate in your valley because of your superior climate and natural conditions for bcot culture, and because the sugar business is, gen erally speaking, only profitable in countries that are liberally peopled, aiid which have a good geograph ical location, and that are well developedin other ' words, a section like Rogue River valley, that has passed tho pioneer stage. ARE YOU NOW WILL ING TO CfO IN FOR A BIG INDUSTRY THAT WILL HOLD UP YOUR REPUTATION Any information von desire will bo supplied at our headquarters in Medford and Grants Pass. Respectfully submitted, ALEX. NIBLEY, F. S. BRAMWELL, , Of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Company, i si J 4 is .SHMs$fti 9&&8&$ Jlr- -(