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The average rainfall for Utah is about 12 inches. It is 
about 16.5 inches near Salt Lake City. December is the 
wettest month, and the largest precipitation of the year is 
between December ist and June ist, each year; June is the 
dryest month. September shows more precipitation than 
any of the fall months. October and November average 
fairly dry weather, suitable for ripening and gathering the 
beet crop. 
The soil shows a great diversity around Lehi, but is 
generally a heavier soil than the uplands of Northern Color- 
ado. There is more sand in the soil near Springville. Many 
Lehi farmers claim the soil averages better for beets in the 
Springville district. 
THE EDDY, N. M. BEET SUGAR EACTORY. 
The Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Company erected this 
factory in 1896. The local stockholders have some $16,000 
invested, but the larger part of the stock is owned by J. J 
Hagerman, of Colorado, and by wealthy manufacturers of 
Milwaukee, Philadelphia and New York City. A large part 
of the machinery was formerly in use in Canada. About 
• $175,000 is now invested in the business. The factory is 
said to have a rated capacity of 225 tons of beets per day. 
The owners contemplate enlarging it this season, and 3,500 
acres of beets are to be contracted to be grown for its use. 
They use Thurber lump coal — some 30 tons per day. 
This is a semi-coking coal and makes a large amount of gas, 
soot and ashes. It costs $4.55 per ton, unloaded in bins at 
the factory. The blue limestone used, some nine tons per 
day. comes by wagon from Dark Canon, some 12 miles dis- 
tant. It is 97 per cent carbonate of lime, about 3 per cent 
silica (a little too much) with a little iron, sulphate of lime 
and alumina and only a trace of magnesia. It costs $1.75 
per ton at the factory. Pocahontas coke is used, from Mem- 
phis, Tenn. Sulphur deposits have been recently found, 
fifty miles distant, that will supply the factory needs next 
season. 
The Pecos river water is very alkaline. The town of Eddy 
is supplied with domestic water by a pipe line from Dark 
Canon, two miles southwest. This supplies the factory when 
in operation also with a million gallons per day. 
The factory cut an average of 134 tons of beets per 
day, the first season, and about 160 tons per day, during 
the last year’s run. The company receives its beets “on 
board the cars at any station on the line of the Pecos Valley 
Railway,” paying its own freight. It started the factory 
operations in November, 1896. and November 15, 1897. 
