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Show LEHI FACTORY PAYS $155,000 TO FARMERS AND EMPLOYEES I ft BEET 0R0WER8 RCCEIVE $130,000 AND EMPLOYEES $25,000. f I A total of $165,000 was paid out this onth by the Utah-Idaho Sugar com-! com-! Dany t0 beet growers of tho Lohl distil dis-til Lct anil to employees ot tho local factory and two cutting stations. Tho IB amount for beets wont forth on tho I I 15th and was $ 130,000, tho employees checks totaled ?zo,uuu anu was pam I on tbo lOtli of tho month. This 1 am0unt ot $130,000 helped to bring tho I flj totai paid for beets in tho Inter-21 Inter-21 mountain country to tho grand total flj 0( 4,820,000 which amount ontored H tho malls on tho 15th of November fl (rom tho various sugar companies In I I Utah and Idaho. i H Tho Amalgamated Sugar company 1 1 paid $1,450,000, the Utah-Idaho $1,970,- 1 000 and independent companies In f Utah $1,400,000. Beet payments wero figured on tho f H minimum prlco of $5.00 per ton and 1 H were for beets delivered In tho month f H of October. 1 H The beet harvest Is practically com- H pleted In this section. All beets aro I B out ot the ground and but a tow aro f B to be hauled to tho factory. Thoso I B not delivered aro grown by tho big B cale farmers who wero unablo to B get the crop out ot tho ground beforo B the roccnt bad weather came. B Thero Is some hopa ot farmers re- B celving a better prlco for tholr beots B than the minimum of $5.00. Sugar Is B now selling at slightly over $0.00 B which price, if continued and tho B usar companies soil their ontlro out- H pat, would net tho farmers closo to H $7.00 on tho sliding scalo contract. H The first extra payment on tho con- H tract comes Fobruary 15th and Is figured on tho sales of sugar from tho H lit of Octobor to tho 1st of next H February. Thero is Httlo doubt but H that the farmers will receive somo JM additional for beets as considerable M' mk&t Is already sold at tho present price and as thero appears nothing I In tho market to causo a drop until flj alter tho first ot tho year it Is safo to I figure the first quarter ot tho sales I will be on tho present basis. Taking It for grantod that ono-fourth of tho M HJ output Is sold beforo Fobruary 1st , flj thero would then bo a dividend of ' fifty cents per ton to tho farmers. It Is hard to flguro beyond this dato, P" m hf wver. 2 I |