Show FEAR OF LOWER LONER DUTY ON SUGAR TO REDUCE MACHINERY REPAIRS ts lS Special lo to 11 Tho LUa Ii It tr inn ln Ogden Fob Feb 10 The lO The improvements and repairs C en the factories of the thu company compan will he n minimized e this tIllS year said 1 I I. I n R. R Eccles ren general r 1 superintendent superintend superintend- ent eat of the Amalgamated Sugar compan company com corn pan Party pany to today a and an it Is due Ihle tl to the tear fear of oC th the management that elect President i mt Woodrow Wilson's Wilsons administration will lower the tariff on sugar suar and antI thereby re reduce uce the lie market maret value We Yc cannot m meet pt the competition of ot toe Cuban cane an m sugar and to avoid old t tile he possibility of losing money in iii th sU sugar ar business this year e r we 0 will in get along with th the machinery ma ma- chinery as it I Is Cane cne sugar can la hH ma made e In Cuba for fOl li lj cents a pound and the oc ocean an transportation and an the refining In ing process heln being cheap it I II Is impossible for tor the lie beet factories to compete In the thc bugar tuga r market el this competition without a prot protective tariff Mr Eccles lEeches Investigations In while hll I In h. Cuba led him hull to tho the conclusion that without government protection b by a tariff as at t present the h beet et sugar business 8 will necessarily be placed at ar ara ata ata a disadvantage Ills ITis will contract for or the usual acreage of sugar SUg beets this year but does not car cari car i to exceed the tile tonna tonnage 6 of or la last t Y year Bt Contracts Contract are being en entered entered entered en- en into with th growers row rs |