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"W MEDFORD MAIL; TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1035 PAGE. THREE . mjajmJm Do You Want to Be a Party to the Establishment of a Great Jndustry in Rogue River Valley? t T t f T t t ? ? ? T Y ? t t T f k 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 land owners to sign up contracts during the next 30 days that you will grow beets next 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". J Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7th, 1010V TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUBS, LAND OWN ....ERS AND CITIZENS OF ROOUE RIVER VAL LEY: About a venr ago the undersigned made several visits to y4our vnllcv for the purpose of investigating conditions that appertain to the establishment of the sugar manufacturing industry in the Rogue River valley. Those proliiuinarv investigations were very cn- couragmg aim wo iiuur inuuuuu juuauup j. ,,. ley, one of the principal stockholders of the Ten Mil lion Dollar Utnli-Klano sugar uompany oi Bait uuku Citv, to visit the valley and meet the representa tives of your Commercial 'clubs and its many promi nent citizens and land owners. t At the tinio 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 season of 1915. Owing to the fact that .the growing of sugar beets had not yet been given a practical tryont in your valley, Bishop Nibley at that time demanded that before he would help build a sugar factory that fivo thousand acres of suitable lands be first signed up for beet culture, and that the people of Roguo River valley put $250,000 into the. enterprise. It should be understood that it was not necessary to obtain money in Roguo River valley in order to build a sugar factory, but it was felt and deemed important that local people be financially interested in the new industry so that it would hav'ea full measure of local support, to help insure its suc cess. As the undertaking was a large one, and not enough time was loft before the growing season of 1915 to work out a business plan that would enlist the support of the necessary capital and obtain tho necessary beet contracts, tho matter 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 lie was ready and willing to go ahead for the season of 1910. Since the beet meetings that were held last Jan- HOW UIJUUlliiu' iiuiu v tuv vnj iw w i. . i. ... . ,t . land owners will raise the beets, and we respectfully jisk the Commercial clubs of Ashland, Medford, Cen tral Point, Cold Hill, Rogue River, Grants Pass anil other places in the valley, and all its citizens, to holp us obtain the necessary 5000 acres of beet contracts. We have recently obtained the necessary guaran tees of local financial support and tho backing of capitalists, who will build a factory under certain conditions that they exact, and the first and most important of theso conditions is that the acreage that will bo devoted hereafter to beet culturo must be signed up at once. Copies of beet contracts can be 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 desu;c about beet cul ture, and the headquarters at Medford and Grants Pass will be in charge of the undersigned, who arc thoroughly familiar with the culture of beets and the manufacture of sugar. The form of the contract wo ask you to sign is the same as that maclc by the boot growers of Utah and Idaho, who sell beets to the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, and the pricos paid to you growers will be the same as paid in Idaho and Utah, and the price will be tho samo F. O. B. at any and all railroad sta tions on the Soutliern Pacific botwoon Ashland and tfv . jH .tSWi 4 ' Merlin or any station on the Oregon and California coast. Last spring we caused beet seed to be widely dis tributed in vour valley, and some of it was planted and beets have been grown. Theso beets have since, natural and samples have been tested and condi ttmm nhsoi'vorl. uMviiu? to our satisfaction that beet culture and the manufacture of sugar in your valley wilL be profitable and should be its greatest indus iw. Numerous testshnyc also been made of the dif- t3jHHB7rrMSM : tM.i jP'''?,-K v" um n - !m Kv hPjl .'irf. 'fciiJ mwj --MrvQL vnn HK- .Vv.B MM'rrM ' nWl nm s B- '"V-v'JB fHK i i MM BK' a ..W. -k, t!'M HH -K -, B (r 'Wl c- B E . 'MHJ' ' IKi' m u.i ':t- .11 m,vwv Ht i lSM l H ' ihf i " xm m "n. -,)m HrtfeXB H iHiwar. .. . vw 1. m u ut -M iBMIK i ' .H k. . m. anm .hi ni: HHi - r 'M M iH i' " a.1 L lM is that we thousand adaptable H'onounccd havo con be ffrown, sugar will ct districts oved up to bo tests of mstruetion i Salt Lake tcrcstcd in ho Orcgon i a paid-up first morl- iction pur- 100,000 to s uccn ar- r valley to ire. Thoir sugar iu- r vailoy or cKon-Utah s to go into oguc River ago cannot lo on Ufnp- will bo dq gc is signed exact loca convenient and Califor- prico of louglt dcilv- fcront soil arc convi acres in J to beet cv The ell ideal, and vmced us ahd that average 1 oL winch Just i be an idc beets wa a - of a beet ; City capi sugar sec Utah Su capital of gage bon poses, an annuallv ranged fc It is simi up action wi dustry in elscwher Sugar Co the suga valley is bo obtaii qua or "V The 1 1 cided bj up and p tion is, tl loading s ma and beets F. ered at the tactorv, As soo'n as the beet contracts aro signed up, tho Company proposes lov establish permanent places of business in Medford avnd Grants Pass, for tho con venient handling of tlitf business of both ends of tho valley. TO MAKE SUGAR VfcE HAVE TO HAVE THE BEETS AND BEFORE BUIIiDING A FACTORY AND ISSUING BONDS WE MUST BE SURE OF THE BEETS. YOU A.TTJEND 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 now, country. v. '-h First It must be certain that enough bcjttfw"iH' be raised to keep a HUgarjjactoi'iP running. , SecondnnTo.irnnfKe contracts in time to have tho ipJiuit'Dllill and ready. (September 1, 1010, in this ease). Third The national tariff question and the pros pects of a market for sugar at reasonable prices. Fourth Tho consummation of tho preliminary financial arrangements that havo 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 Tho beet seed question is a vital one this year, as the German supply is now cut off. "Wo 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 industry 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 $1,250,000. A similar state of affairs exists in Idaho, and tho output in Utah and Idaho will be increased this year nearly 40 per cent. This year R-1,000 acres of beets were grown in Utah (compared to 45,100 acres last year); -10,000 acres in Idaho and over 100,000 acres in Colorado; In Colorado the value of the sugar industry ranks along with its gold production. )0 YOU WANT TUHNE CONDITIONS PUPLiCATHI) IN ORE GON AND HAVE ROGUE RIVEK VALLEY TJlJfl HOME OF THE INDUSTRY AND BE A GREAT SUGAR CENTER, A THING THAT SALT LAKE GITY NOW ENJOYS The sugar industry benefits all classes of people and all other business! Tho Sugar Company will inl niediatcly bring prosperity to the farmers, as it is a cash crop, and their crop is sold to the fettgar com pany botore the seed is planted. A sugar factor gives employment to labor, teamsters, and stimulates the transportation business generally. It Uses Jargp quantities of coal, wood, limestone, power, etc. The building of pur factory in Rogue River valley Will put more than $1,000,000 of new outside money in your banks every year. It will give tho farmdsd good loan value for his lands. The industry iss va big tax payor, and, what is more, it puts now lifC.'in'-tKe 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. . .. $. Tho sugar industry will also stimulate tlicc stock industry. Your valley will havo cattle, .Kbgs and poultry to sell in abundance. ' New induslrKs 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 waste. THERE IS ONE FEATURE OF THE SUGAR BUSINESS YOU PEOPLE OUGHT TO KNOW, AND THAT IS THAT THE SUGAR BUSINESS IB 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 business you will find that by the time you make up your mind to build a factory and obtain tho necessary beet contracts you arc out $10,000, and by the time you arc ready to lot-a contract to build a factory, you will have to havo $100,000 in hand, and the. cost of the factory and ap' purtcnanccs runs from $500,000 to $600,000; and , requires from $200,000 to $100,000 (according; to size of crop) to pay farmers for the beets and carry the sugar until it is sold. ' OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ARE GOOD-.V; PEOPLE .!' . The how Company's Officers and Directors are all responsible men who understand the sugar business and already havo a largo sum invested in ft, and, have mado money out of tho sugar industry. , r. Tho Directors of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Com pany are: C. W. Nibley, capitalist, who is probably tho largest individual factor in the great sugar indus tries of Utah and Idaho; O. C. Beebe, cashier and manager of tho Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Com pany and vice-president of the Utah Savhnj8-& Trust Company; Rodney T. Badger, vice-president and manager ol utan orate jxauonai uanu; iiiop llmnl A Smifli finnifnliRf; mid TTlirnlrl Reed SmootL David A. Smith, capitalist; and Harold Reed Smooth. investment banker, an ot wnomycsiao in oau umw, and George E. Sanders, president of The Rogue River Public Servico Corporation, and Alox. Nibley, secre tary of Oregon-Utah Sugar Company. S4 9T 1TM f The ofiicoru ot tlio company ore: u. w.jjuowy, George E. Sanders, Vice-President; o. u. usurer: Aloxr Nibley Secretary, and F. S. .'iutcudent. All of theso offic- Presidont; Beebe. Trc nramwAll- "ttidd Snntt .w-iifo personally familiar with and acquainted in Rogue River valley, tanl Afr. C. W. Nibley has been , I it i j 1 j 1 ii IILini if , -for f lip-past 30 years, and lived'ii huvwU years. IT IS NOW SUARELY UP OF ROGUE RIVER VALLEY YOU WANT THE OREGON-U PANY TO GO AHEAD AND 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 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 mow industries th'at will bring in new monoy and employ tho pooplevjt now has, and those who will come when a stato of prosperity exists. Tho Oregon-Utah Sugar Company is willing, if you will grow beets, to locate in your valley becahso of your superior climate and natural conditions for beet culture, and becauso tho sugar business is, gen erally speaking, only profitable in countries that aro liberally pcoplod, and which have a good geograph ical location, and that aro well developed in other words, a section like Roguo River vailoy, that has passed the pioneer stago. A RIG YOU NOW WILL JNG'TO GO IN FOR A BIG INDUSTRY THAT WILL HOLD IT YOUR IMPUTATION? Any information von desire will bo supplied at our headquarters in Medford and Grants Pass. Respectfully submitted, , AL15X. NIBLEY, F. S. BRAMW15LL, Of tho Oregon-Utah Sugar Company, n .1 S&3 $$&s t;