Show MINING AND SUGAR MAKING it is a long hike from mining the precious and baser metals to sugar making but we know of no law preventing a mining magnate from engaging in the latter occupation if he be so desires and especially when he does so 0 o from philanthropic motives and it if such an individual can make as much of a success in sugar making as he has been in giving to the mining industry several great dividend paying propositions the sooner he begins operations in sugar production the better it will be for the common people and especially so when he proposes to lower the price on this article and also give the beet raiser a better price for his field product according to the herald of provo utah uncle jesse knight who made the great colorado iron blossom and beck tunnel mines who built the tintic gintic smelter who is heavily interested in mining enterprises all over the west and who is identified with several electric power and other industrial enterprises in utah has announced that he will build a sugar factory in commenting upon this proposition the herald says here is good news for all the people of utah uncle jesse knight comes out boldly with the statement that he will build a sugar factory in ane south part of this county as soon as water is turned into the strawberry valley tunnel it will be a real factory and here are some of the features which will make the trusts arise and take notice 1 I will see that the beet raisers are not paid less than 5 a ton for their beets and I 1 will sell the refined sugar for not more than per hundred pounds the people will get the benefits in fact I 1 can make good money selling sugar for per sack this is the statement made by uncle jesse knight to the herald today exorbitant price attention has been called by this paper to the exorbitant prices which have been de mand edby the trust factories for sugar in utah sugar is quoted at about per hundred pounds this same utah sugar is sold in oklahoma for about per hundred pounds the people of lehi within a mile of the sugar factory pay more by far for utah sugar than people who live thousands of miles away these unjust practices which are being carried on by the trust factor factories leg have been taken into consideration by mr knight and when he says that tie he will build a factory it will mean that the people will get the benefits for people not trusts when it was suggested to mr knight that the trusts would bring a bout about a big fight on the independent factory he said they will have to sell sugar cheaper than we do and they will have to pay the farmers better for their beets if they are then able to close the independent factory the people will be getting sugar at a reasonable price and the farmers will be well paid for the beets the people will get the benefits and that will please me when the trust raise their prices and cut the farmers price for beets it will be time for us to startup start up again mr air knight contemplates to put the sugar factory in the south end of the county my aly old friends in payson have been after me for years to build them a factory an and d I 1 partly promised to now I 1 say that I 1 dont promise to but I 1 am going to build a sugar factory |