COST OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS IN UTAH AND IDAHO. 5 
for several years. The manufacture of sugar had its beginning in 
| this State as early as 1852, but this pioneer venture did not prove 
successful. It remained for the farmers of Utah County to demon- 
strate at a later date the value of the sugar beet crop. The past 
| 30 years have witnessed the development of an exceedingly impor- 
‘tant industry for farmers living within the Salt Lake basin and 
contiguous territory. The previous survey which was made in this 
county included some 58 enterprise survey reports that were obtained 
in the vicinity of Provo. 
The Garland area is located in the Bear River Valley, in Boxelder 
County. Cost figures on sugar beets were secured in this district in 
Tic. 2.—Beet sugar factory in the Bear River Valley, Utah, with a typical beet field in the foreground. 
| 1915 and 1916. The present survey included 58 records, which were 
obtained in the vicinity of Tremonton and Garland. A beet-sugar 
factory was constructed at Garland in 1903. (Fig. 2.) In the year 
| 1918 Boxelder County led all other counties in Utah in the number 
| of acres planted to sugar beets. 
The third district was selected in Bonneville and Bingham Counties 
in Idaho. Thirty-four reports were obtained from farmers near 
Idaho Falls and 40 from the vicinity of Blackfoot. These two sec- 
tions are similar in many respects, and may be regarded as one 
district. A sugar factory was built at Idaho Fallsin 1903. <A factory 
