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The factory employs about 6o hands on each shift. A local 
stockholder says the company has estimated that the pres- 
ent working capacity of the factory can be doubled by an 
expenditure of $25,000. The present factory capacity is too 
small to secure the best results. The factory beets are raised 
at various points between Pecos City, Texas and Roswell, New 
Mexico. The Company raised 200 acres of beets in 1897. 
All its beets are raised by irrigation. Some 2,000 acres of 
beets were planted last spring and only about 1,700 acres 
were harvested. A fungus disease, blight and insect depre- 
dation, are given as causes of the small yield last seasoi;.. 
One car load of beets in 1896 ran 24 per cent sugar in tlu. 
beets and 92 per cent purity. 
Supt. Vallez planted “mother” beets in the spring of 
1897, I'aised beet seed, planted this seed and raised beets 
for the factory, all in the one season. Some 30 tons of 
“mother” beets were kept over and planted in February, 
1898, to raise seed. They tested 19 per cent sugar and 84 
per cent purity. 
EDDY FACTORY. 
1866 
' 1897 
Acres of beets grown 
1500 
1900 
Tons of beets produced 
7800 
' 5700 
Average yield of beets ifi tons per acre 
5.2 
3.0 
Per cent of sugar in beets 
16.2 
14.2 
Per cent of purity of beets 
82.0 
80.0 
Per cent of sugar extracted from beets 
5.77 
10.53 
Pounds of sugar made per ton of beets 
116 
210 
Pounds of sugar made per acre of beets 
600 
632 
Tons of sugar produced 
450 
600 
Days factory run 
60 
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The population of Eddy is about 1,200. The Pecos 
Valley has an ample water supply, and a fine canal and 
reservoir system. The water assessments on lands is $1.25 
per acre per year. The valley is a natural fruit garden, but 
is new, and lacks the farming population and, perhaps too 
the close careful cultivation, deep plowing, crop rotation, 
and knowledge of irrigation that pertains to the older 
farm districts of Colorado. It is doubtful also if beets do 
well when planted late, and grown during the extreme heat 
