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OREGON", MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1035
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Do You Want to Be a Party to the Establishment
of a Great Jndustry in Rogue River Valley?
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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;
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.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,
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