Sanborn Beet Loading Facility

I do not ever remember the sugarbeet loading facility at Sanborn ever operating during my years of recolection.  I believe that Guy Smith was the last farmer to raise surgarbeets in that area.  He had property just east of Jude Lemmert's, just east of the state line, that had a house located about a half mile south of the highway that Guy used for his migrant laborers to stay in.  From what I understood, at that time, Guy planted and harvested surgarbeets where he used to live,  so the migrants would have to have been transported from this house to the work site.  I used to walk down to Lemmert's to play with Ranny.   This would have been late fourties and early fifties and I don't remember him ever using it for that purpose during that time frame.  It was always vacant.  There was a two track trail that went down through there and a bridge over the Pioneer Ditch.  We also drove this track a few times.  I also had information that there used to be a man that lived south of this house, south of the ditch in a dugout who had a moonshine still and provided spirits for the Laird, Sanborn and Haigler communities.  Anybody have information to confirm this story.  Neal Clegg was one of my sources with others in the Laird area.
~Kay Haptonstall