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feet. However, in 1901, interest in the sugar beet was again 

 aroused, and so the State Legislature provided a bounty of one 

 dollar a ton on all sugar beets grown in the State. The hope of 

 home sugar factories was abandoned. A limit of $5,000 in any 

 one year was set to the beet bounty. Sugar bounties paid on beet 

 sugar made in Kansas were as follows: 



1889 $18,658.30 



1891 50,304.08 



1892 3,000.00 



1893 15,303.83 



1895 7,339.29 



1896 5,331.00 



Kansas laws were frequently enacted at the request of local 

 districts, to permit them to grant direct aid to agriculture. The 

 following are typical cases: 



The city of Burlingame, Osage County, was authorized to vote 

 $25,000 in bonds to aid in establishing a woolen mill in that city. 3 



Smoky Hill Township, McPherson County, was authorized to 

 aid in erecting a flour mill with a subsidy of $6,000. 4 



All counties of over 30,000 population were authorized to sub- 

 sidize the construction of starch works up to $41,000 each county. 5 



Kentucky Township, Jefferson County/ was authorized to grant 

 a subsidy to a flour mill to the amount of $10,000. 6 



Haskell County was authorized to grant a subsidy of $1 an 

 acre for breaking sod in that county, the limit to be $10,000. 7 



Cimarron Township, Gray County, was authorized to subsidize 

 the building of a flour mill. 8 



This same legislature authorized ten flour mills and three other 

 private enterprises. 



The legislature of 1893 authorized two townships to vote $5,000 

 each in aid of flour mills. The 1895 legislature authorized one 

 township to grant a $3,000 subsidy in aid of a flour mill. The 

 State Auditor's bond register for 1900 shows the following grants : 

 Gray County, $15,000 for a beet sugar mill and $8,000 for a flour 

 mill and $2,000 for a cheese factory; Hamilton County, $4,000 for 

 a flour mill; West Plains township in Meade County, $15,000 for 

 a beet sugar mill. 



Not only did these subsidized industries all fail, but in many 

 cases the County or District voting the bonds defaulted in the 



3 Laws of 1870, chapter 36. 



4 Laws of 1872, chapter 85. 



5 Laws of 1873, chapter 33. 



6 Laws of 1873, chapter 48. 



7 Laws of 1889, chapter 154. 



8 Laws of 1891, chapter 44. 



