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Show I Sugar Factory Closes 1 ' Its 25th Campaign H A (Jloomj Opening lhrs Va hi it H " .Sitcci-.Hsful ('losing The Must Sue. B eceiful for tho Parmer ami Factory H In Tm-utj-.flw Ycum' llltnrj- H ('oiiipnnj Will (Iron Its Own licet wk Seed. U Tho l.eJ.1 sugar factory closed Its HI tweiity-llfth campaign Wednesday af- tcrnoon. Tho cutting station at Span- pi lali Fork ulosud Saturday, and tlie onu Ba at I'rovo closed down Sunday. At B 4:30 o'clock tlia last bag of sugar was ho..;(1 up and r.tamped No. 242,091, at the I.elil factory. This number inul- D tlpl'Icd by 100 glvcfl 31, 20U 100, the number of pounds of sugar tnado this M scaRou. 'I lie factory bad been In op- BS oration jUBt 105 days. B8 Thoro has been nothing unusual In BB tho run. It has been n little slower Bfl than last year, but owing to tlm high BB per cont of sugar In tho beets and tliu BB unexcelled extraction, tho amount or BH sugar turned out por day has been the BB greatest la tho factory's history. Th HHj average or beets sliced has been up HP wards of 1,200 tons uvcry 24 hours ol BJl tho I'll iii BJk Thu big warehouses at tho factory BB are tilled to their utmost capacity BB Every where one looks ho boos mouii. BB tiilns of migar. Thuro Is over 30,000,- HB 000 poundii Btored la tho uuveral B warHiouses, sufllcleat to last Utah mm Idaho and Nevada for one year, am! BB which Is over double tho amount ovel jOff storod before. At present there seem? Bfl to be little sale for it. BB llesldea being a prosperous year BB for the ractory, It has been one of the BB best In history for tho farmers. The BJ warm spring rains enabled the grow flj era to obtain a perfect stand of youat BJ plants, and thu ripening season could .BJ not Imvo been better. The condition Ijfl during digging time were also Ideal BB and tho farmers get their beets out ol BB the ground at a minimum cost. The RH yield averaged over 17 tons por acre IM Borne of thu sample crops wero Hob- KKIl or '.. Uarrlsou, 20.0 tons per aero on Ofll 10.5 acres; Isaac It. Peck, 20.8 tone Em per ncro on fi acres; Don Ixivorldgu tig 23.3 tons por aero on 8 acres; Dor- BB nard (1. Webb, 23.1 (oub por aero on 0l O.G acres;, and Itubcn Davis 22.2 tonp Jfj par acre on (! ncrcs. In two more BB weeks, contracting for next season's crop will bo commenced, and It Is ox- B peeled that tho acrcago will bo uin- BB terlally Increased over last year J Bupt. Oanlnoi Is authority for thr BB statement that thu plant could easlly nP handlo from 20,000 to 30,000 tons of M beets moro than woru cut this year BB Tho year opened under tho most BB gloomy condition, with sugar Eollltip BB at Ha lowest point In years, and with BB another cent of tariff yet to somo off BB it was freely predicted that tho ex BB lliictloii of the, beet sugar biiBluosp BB was In sight. However, with the BB opentug of the war, sugar reached thr BB highest prlrn in recent history and It BB now selling at an advance of about rJBJ .18 cents above tho price at this date ill last year. BJ Tliu Utah-Idaho Sugar company has BJ this year consumed approximate Bfl r.62,712 tons of beets, divided amone BB Kb seven factories as follows: Bfl Tomb Iflfl I.elil 131,3Sr Bfl Oarland HG,4o; H Idaho Falls 77,'JSE Bfl Sugar City 0I.1C7 BB lllackfoot 80,717 fl Elslnoro 4G,0C3 r.iynon .,... 48,02r. Bfl Thu Amalgamated Sugar company fl consumed 29S.000 tons as follows; Bfl Ogdeu sn,ooo fl Logan ..... 75,000 H Hurley 4S,O0fl B l.ewlstnn i .lO.omi H Making a grand total of 800,712 PJ toiiB, from which approximately 22!) BB million pounds of sugar was made BB These llgurcs are from the Deseret BB News. fl (leneral .Managea- T. "It, Cutler, while B oxpeotlug a good season tho coming B year, is not very optimistic regarding B tho fuluie of thu industry. Ho made B a trip to Cuba this summer to hives- B tlgnle. conditions and found that many of the planters were Belling their I nrops for the exceeding low price of $1.75 per hundred, this being for raw H Biigar of 96 por rent centrifugal test. Tho planters and IhibIiiohs men on fl , tho Island generally wero very much I ; ( depressed at conditions In thu sugar If maiket. II -' "Tlie Biigar," continued Mr. Cutler, Bi "with frolght and duty paid, would BJ bring $2.85 per hundred pounds after K shipment to Atlantlo coast points. R Had thoso coudltlous continued, Utah , sugar ntou would have had to moot B ' t that price-, and whon tho further re. ' ductjon In tho tariff had gouo Into .. uffofi ii 101C, tho beet Biigar Industi F hero ,iud olsowhoro In tho couuti BBBBBBBKteuv AMtj4 .MMMr would have been wiped out. As to sugar beet seed Mr. Cutler said: "Tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company some tllno ago realized that It "would bo beat to get Into a position where we were Independent of foreign seed. For seventeen years wei have been conducting expcr.mcutB with a lew of raising our own pedigreed seed. Dm lug tho last three years the, coin, pauy hart met with marked bucccsm In this regard. "Tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company Is now in n position to raise its own seed n8 a result of thoBo years of careful care-ful and Intelligent effort," continued Mr. Cutler. "The. company has now upwards of 3000 tons of mothers and stockllugB laid by and ready to be planted next spring. 11 Id tho Intruder, to plant 40 ncrcB of these mother beets at thu Saratoga Springs ranch. |
