Call NumberX-8497Date1931SummaryAn enormous pile (50,000 tons) of sugar beets is near the Great Western Sugar Co. plant in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. A portable piler works in a clearing between piles.Physical Description1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint : black-and-white ; 16 x 26 cm (6 1/4 x 10 in.)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectFort Morgan (Colo.)Beets--Colorado--Fort MorganCollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryRelated MaterialImage File: ZZR710008497Type of MaterialFilm negativesPhotographic printsBlack & white photographsNotesFormerly F34541. Photoprint has measurements hand written on front. Printed label, from Caterpillar Tractor Co., on back of photoprint reads: "Beet sugar cuts its cost at the source! The Great Western Sugar Co. very materially reduced costs of piling the sugar beet crop at their factory at Fort Morgan, Colo. by building these portable beet pilers around "Caterpillar" Twentys. 50,000 tons in one pile.". Title printed on back of photoprint. R7100084974
