Douglas Quayle's Utah-Idaho Sugar Company collection

Collection

Identifier: WASH-039

Scope and Contents

This collection documents the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. The bulk of the material is from the early 1900s to the early 1970s. There is a mixture of term papers, reports, pictures, 35 mm slides, letters and other miscellaneous items.

Dates

Creation: 1918 - 1973

Creator

Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections hours or by appointment. Researchers must complete an Application for Use and show a photo ID prior to accessing materials.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright held by Utah Tech University Library Special Collections and Archives. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives.

Biographical / Historical

See more See less

The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company began operations in the early 1900s and closed down in the 1970s. Owned and operated by the LDS church, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was based in Utah and later expanded with plants in six other states. There were many factories throughout Utah including Moses Lake, Lehi, St. George, Garland, Spanish Fork, and West Jordan. The factory at Moses Lake was the largest factory, with over 100 million pounds of sugar processed per day. Douglas Quayle ran the St. George Beet plant for 35 years between 1934 and 1970. In 1978 the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company decided to go into potato production in Idaho, after this, all the sugar beet factories closed down in Utah and halted the U and I sugar industry. The St. George sugar plant is now the original Opera House on Main Street in St. George, Utah.

Douglas Quayle was born on August 22, 1920 in Logan, Utah, and passed away on August 6, 2014 in St. George, Utah. He was in the Air Force and fought in WWII. After the war he went to Utah State University and a got a degree in agriculture. He later married his wife Betty Klomp and then was sealed in the LDS temple. When Douglas and his wife, Betty, moved to St. George, Utah, he became a member of the Rotary Club where he lso ran the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company plant for 35 years.

Full Extent

3 Linear Feet (1 tan cubic foot box, 1 light blue cubic foot box, and 2 tan oversized boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection consists of term papers, reports, books, 35 mm slides, pictures, records, floor plans, letters, letterhead samples, and memorabilia of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Beet Company.