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The sugar company has led the way in the progress of the great irrigation system in the Garden City district. It has built the sugar factory, an alfalfa meal mill, the Garden City Western railroad and an electric power plant.
In western Kansas a thriving sugar beet industry recruited workers from south of the border. Many of these families settled in Garden City and created a thriving community that exists to this day. The Sugar Factory, which hired many Mexican workers, was opened on November 17, 1906.
Hardly anyone outside the Arkansas River Valley near Garden City knows that Kansas has one of the largest beet sugar refineries in the country, and that sugar-beet farming supports thousands of Kanaans. This study presents some significant aspects of one of Kansas' greatest in- dustries.
The United States Sugar And Land Company decided upon Garden City, Kansas as they felt they could get water from the Arkansas River for irrigation where they would grow sugar beets. When they decided to locate in Garden City, they asked a $30,000 guarantee and wanted assurance of 12,000 acres of beets.
Garden City, Kansas, located on the Arkansas River in southwest Kansas, is the county seat of Finney County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 28,151. The city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in western Kansas.
Garden City, Kansas. The only Fred Harvey card I know about for Garden City is of the United States Sugar and Land Company's sugar beet factory which opened in 1906 and closed in 1955. The factory cost $1 million to build and was designed to process 600 tons of beets daily.
Two photographs of a sugar beet refinery in Garden City. This was the only sugar beet refinery in Southwest Kansas at the time, according to the Dodge City Daily Globe. The photographs show a train unloading the sugar beets at the refinery, and a worker - identified as F. F. Latshaw - standing among the sugar beets at the plant.
