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Show 'mm YEARR . AHEADF0R SUGAR Tlirec e;v I'lielorles, u (Ireatly In-ereusc In-ereusc dAcrnige, High Prices for Sugar ami u' I'monilile Measou, all ('(inlrlliille to Making Hie Outlook llrlghlosl In History. Contracting for sugar boots continues contin-ues at n slow pace in this locality, though It is fully normal as compared com-pared with other years for this season of tho year. In somo parts, the sugar company is way ahead, now, of the total at tho beginning of tho planting season of other years. In Gnrlanil, Hugar City and Idaho Falls, tlin farmers nio light In tha mlddlci of their contracting season, with Indications of n very largely increased in-creased acreage, because of tho increase in-crease In tho pilco to be, paid for hoots. George Austin, Mark Austin nnd Hcbor Austin, who wero In town this week from tho above respective districts, report that tho outlook for a successful year was never so bright As In Loli!, thcro hns been nn unusually unu-sually heavy fall of snow, and tho irrigation ir-rigation supply is absolutely ussured. Tho ground is In fine condition for spring planting and germinating tho seed. Tho Utah-Idaho Sugar Company Is building new Vlauts in Salt Lake county, Hrlghnm City nnd Spanish Fork with a new cutting station nt Pleasant Grove, which gives them ij string of ten factories and two cut ting stations with which to tako care of the lmmenso acreage thct they nr tlclpnto being gtown this year. Thl mnkes an Ideal condition, for If op' plant is over supplied, the boots that come In on cars can bo shifted to nt" other factory, and thus tho plnnts bo niado to help each other and nil rloFO nbout tho same time of tho year, The prlco of sugar continues on Its upward Journey to the. sky, with th brokers and wholesalers prophyslnf that It will not plop till $9.00 per bnc Is reached. Tho Lehl factory hr' about 240,000 bags or 24 million pounds of tho finished product on hnnd, nnd aro seeding it out nt tho rnto of nbout 5 or 0 cars per day. All this spells prosperity to the Sugar company, nnd nn n result, tho stocks of the Sugar company continuo to climb, being now much higher than over before In history. And having icnchcil n prlco of over $C.OO por shnro which is equivalent to moro thnn doublo what they wero selling for before tho out break of tho war. o |