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Show BEET CUTTERS BERT P R E Vi DUSR EC 0 R DS Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Nov. 21. New records for cutting beets as well na for the amount of sugar produced have been established at all of tho factories of tho Amalgamated Amalga-mated and the Lewiston sugar companies, com-panies, according to a report submitted by Assistant Secretary Pred G. Taylor. Tho official haj just returned to thi. city after visiting tho plants nt Logan and Lewiston, Ltah, and tho Burloy, Idaho, factory. Of the Sf,oo0 iODS of beets contracted for the Ogden plant, about 50,000 tons have been cut. Lewiston, with about J5,000 tons contracted, has disposed of approximately 50,000 tons. Tho pro-oortinn pro-oortinn of beets disposed of is about :he same in tho other factories. At the local factory an avernge of 700 tons of boots are being cut daily. In this respect re-spect most of the plants have almost doubled their guaranteed capacity. The product of the sugar beets tliis ! year, according to Mr. Taylor, ib nearly oerfoet. lie found thnt the crop had ! been almost ent irely hrtr esh'd in all j Darts of the territory covered by the j '.wo companies, onlv a small tonnage remaining re-maining in the 6elds. All of the factories fac-tories will establish now records for tho length of operating period this year because be-cause of the unusually heavy crop. |