Enclosed are a series of Topeka newspaper articles of the beet field migrations of 1906 and 1907. They glorify the economic gains but miss the tale of hard labor and human toil. I found them interesting enough to retype them for the list. enjoy. Frank Jacobs Several of the Russians who have been working in the sugar beet fields at Sterling, Col. returned to North Topeka yesterday, and have reopened their homes in Little Russia and gone to housekeeping. They say that their venture proved to be very lucrative to them. The Topeka State Journal Dec 14, 1906 The Russians who have during the summer , been working in the sugar beet country, are returning home by the car loads. This week two coach loads ot them arrived from the west and one car load of household goods. These people lived in the vinegar works neighborhood and in Little Russia and left the train on Curtis street. Topeka State Journal Dec 21, 1906 The United States Land and Sugar Beet Company have arranged wiith Charles Gerteisen, agent for the Santa Fe, to place two coaches and one baggage carat the Santa Fe Junction depot at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning to accommodate about 150 Russian adults and children and their baggage, who will leave at noon via the Santa Fe for Garden City to work in the sugar beet fields. The Sugar Beet Company pays the expenses. These same Russians cleared and brought home last year all the way from $300 to $900 per family and they expect to do as well this season. The Topeka State Journal April 23, 1907 Charles Gerteisen, agent for the Santa Fe Junction depot, received word yesterday from the United States Land and Beet Sugar Company at Garden City, Kansas., that they would arrange to ship 100 more Russians from North Topeka to Garden City at once. The United States Sugar beet Company of Garden City have arranged with Charles Gerteisen, agent for the Santa Fe to have one coach and one baggage car placed at the Santa Fe Junction depot to take some more Russians and their effects to Garden City Tuesday afternoon. The Topeka State Journal May 27, 1907 A coach load of Russians and a baggage car of their effects left today for the sugar beet fields. J. Statler has charge of the party. Mr. Statler rented his property and taken his family to the sugar beet country for the summer. May 1907 Adam Degand and George Desch left last night for Sterling, Colorado, to work in the sugar beet fields there. The Great Western Sugar Beet Co. at Sterling, Colo., will advise Charles Gerteisen agent here, in a day or two as to whether they will need any more laborers or not. If they do there will be several families more to go. They get $20 an acre to cultivate the sugar beets. Some families take care of as much as 60 acres. This would be $1,200 earned and they can live from May until October when they return for less than $300, this enables them to bring home about $1,000 per family. The Great Western Sugar Beet Co. at Sterling, Colo., has nearly 10,000 acres in sugar beets this season while the United States Land & Sugar Beet Co. at Garden city has about 12,000 in sugar beets this season. The Topeka State Journal May 6, 2007