Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 11 | Sugar Beet Raisers Will be Benefited

SUGAR BEET iSEIS WILL BE BENEFITED Utah-Idaho Company Announces An-nounces New Basis of Making Payments. A flat nup of Ji a ton for sup.ir bet-t5. whoreor they may he delivers. 1. ih an advance of 10 uems for each half-unU sugar content over per cent, will be paid to the farmers in r.'U'. by the Vtah-MaliO Vtah-MaliO S'.icar company, ac.i.r.linc to an aiir.oiiiuenient ir.a.ip yesterday. The new prices l;ave been .uranceii iiy the man-asement man-asement and will be ratified by ti;e boaril ot directors of the .-oivp-'uv today. The on'y proviso attached to the new plan is that tnc eitin tariff on sucar Is contnr:ed. The s'.iLir manufa.'turrs evtTyw.ieip in t iu v I ' i ii te.l State? believe that Secretary M.-Adoo's rerommeuda tion that the tariff ho retained will be a.-ted upOM favurahly by J-'rc.'idcn t W ilson and arc ou'lininc: Plans for next yo:ir. In addition to the straight pi-i.-e of ?f; a ton delivered at any p'ant. tiie I'tah-Kla I'tah-Kla :io Suear (.om pany las aereptl to pa y for additional sut;ar content in l.'eets as follows: (Jn li1? per eent beetB. ?.in a ton; on 1 per cent beets. S-"..li a ton; on Iti per cent bets. $'-.?. a ton: on 17 ier cent bee:. ?o.h) a ton: on 17 per tent beets, a t..n. Also. I't cent? wilt be paid for each additional ad-ditional half unit above 17' per cent, the basi to be fixed on beets entering the fa-'tories as follows: The tliree factories in Tdah.n Blaek-fnot. Blaek-fnot. I laho Falls and Sucar City will be roup-'d together and the hts en terms; an;.- of tii5e factories aw a whOie and ausrefatins the above sucar content win he paid for on the basis raniH. The reason for this is that the Sueur ''nnfTi: in the entire sate of Idaho, as a r'Jlc. is about uniform and there is little difference between the beets of individual growers at any of tiie factories. fac-tories. In L'tah mnrl! t ions? are a little different dif-ferent and there are many changes in the differn localities. Therefore, it lias been decided to take the beets enterinc tiie Garland factory as a whole as one unit, tiie now fa-tory at West Jordan, in Halt I-ake county, as another unit, I-ehi and the cuttinc stations as one unit. Pay son and the new factors' at Spanish Fork as one unit an! Sanpete and S-evier counties will be grouped together. The sugar company Is now payin.e a flat rate of ?.". a ton for beets, but in some instances a slight deduction is made ro assist in paying freight charges. At no lime, jr js said, has the deduction heen more Than '!' ents a ton. Estimating that the heot-: jn lT'lfi will be as rich in pusar content as thev have been durintr The past two 'ears. General Manager T. F:. Cutler of the Ktah-Idoho Sugar company com-pany helievec that the farmers will receive re-ceive about $.i.30 a ton next year.