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Show FOUR FACTORIES FINISH BEET RUN Utah Idaho Factories at Sugar City. Shelley. Blackfoot and Elsinore Complete Work SALT IVKl;. Jan. 1 F'our of the i l.'tah-Idaho Pugar ompany's four-, four-, teeti factories have completed opera-1 opera-1 Hons in the 1920 compalgn within the j past few days. Shelley, Sugar City and BlackfOOt, In Idaho, and Klii-i Klii-i uore. in 7tah, are the plants which ! haM- finished. The remaining fac-j fac-j torles. it Is expected, mill run on into j January. i Operations are reported by the management man-agement to have given the best results re-sults over obtained by the company, j both extraction and yield per ton ruii-I ruii-I nlng high. The competition for Ihe : prizes offered to the plants making the best records have contributed to efficiency of operation. AH beets have I now l.een delivered. Approximately $.0fio.00o was distributed dis-tributed among growers for the I tah-1 tah-1 Idaho at the Decenibcr pay day. mak-I mak-I lng total disbursements In payment for beets of about $ 1 5.00ft, 0i for the j season. About $4,000,000 was paid j out in December by the other companies. com-panies. Estimate of the sugar production pro-duction of the Intermountam coun-tiy coun-tiy this year place the total at roundly round-ly 4,000,000 bags, of which about fe.000,000 bags vl!l bO turned out by: the L'iah-ldsho Ths continued depression in the j sugar market Is having a correspond-! Ingly unfavorable effect on the so- curllies of the sugar companies, but intarmountaln operators are generally' anticipating a rally In both quarters! before long, believing that demand' win improve I I PAH-tD 1HO r iSSl S iiv mi- SD The rjtah-Idaho diraetora at thelri meeting last week decided lo pass! payment of the usual quarterly dlvl-, dend of two per cent on the company'si 135.000,000 of common Btook, owing to the unsettled conditions in the in-, dustry and the advisability of conserving conserv-ing the cash funds of the company. The directors of the West Cache! Sugar compsnv. which was recently! purchased by the Amalgamated, have voted in favor of dropping the urtion against J. A. Ilendrlckson and L. X. Stohl, former president and director! of the company, respectively Thi company had obtained a Judgment against Messr. Hendrickson and Stohl! for $J."0.8 30, alleged to represent prof-Its prof-Its properly due the Company, but an appeal had been taken hy the defendants. defend-ants. It Is expected that the case' will now be dismissed. The action of the directors has caused the firm of Cheney, Jensen and ftbiman of ihn city, attorneys tio represented the! company in the aclion. lo announce' their withdrawal from connection j therewith. |