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Dave Bates

May 23, 2016 01:53PM

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Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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>> Is it my imagination or are the beets in drop
> bottoms? Looks like the side posts are on the
> inside.

Probably so. I remember both Great Western and Union Pacific bringing beets to the factories in drop bottoms. Cars pushed up onto elevated track above sluices and beets dropped into water and floated into factory for processing.

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Re: Montrose sugar beets November 3 1948	Herb Kelsey	May 22, 2016 08:01PM
Re: Montrose sugar beets November 3 1948	Dave Bates	May 23, 2016 01:53PM
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