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Show hU M0li MOikY FOR THEIR BEETS1 I tah County Fanners Join in a Petition to Snar Company. Special Ir, The Tribune. PROVO, Dec. 21 The beet growers of Prove and vicinity held a meeting- last evening in the District courtroom and formulated the following petition to the Utah Sugar company: Text of Petition. 'We, your petitioners, beet-growers of Provo and Vicinity, respectfully, but most earnestly) ask your careful consideration of some of the conditions which con. tront us as beet-growers, and that you place In vmir contracts for the OinlllK season of 1S0Q s 86-cent per ton raise In th price of sugar beets "Some of our reasons for asking this small consideration are as follows. Land Is Worth More. That since the p resent price of beets was fixed our land has dOUDled in valuation, valua-tion, our taxes are higher, labor has doubled dou-bled In price, the soil Is fast losing Its strength, we are under the expense of fertilizing, the past season's crop proved j a partial, and In many cases a total failure fail-ure We seem o he laboring under many disadvantages and while tho price of beets remains the same sugar has ma-terlailv ma-terlailv advanced ' In the District court today Judge Booth sentenced Alfred Holdaway to one year in the Stale prison, on a ph-a of guilty to atson. Holdaway Is the young man who set fire to and burned his mother's home at Vineyard on November 7. George Chase of Provo and Duclnda Freshwater of Sprlngvlllc have been granted a license to wd. |