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Show FLU RATE FAVORED ey mjmm Decision Reached at Mset mg of Directors of Weber County Bureau SpeclaJ to The Tnb ne OGDEN Dec IS That beet grow ers of th s d st ct are unanimously m favor of the flat rate outran for 191b as against the 1 d ng s ale sich as of fered bv the Ltah Idaho Sugar om panv -was the dec s on reached at a 4 meet ng of the d rectors of the Weber county farm bureau this afternoon This fact together w th proposed amendments concerning the dig& ng and p delivering of beets will be on eyed to officers of the Amalgamated Sugar com panv bv the bureau s regular sugar beet - committee As the ompanv has v rtuallv agreed ji ; to the $ond t ons co ered n the pro posed amendments off cers of the bu i 1 reau are certain that an am cable set I tlexnent wilt result as soon as the om i s rmttee has conferred with the company This meeting will probably take place nerf Monday In the meantime offi cers of the bureau urge farmers to refer re-fer frain from signing beet contracts for r s toe coming season pending an annonn e fs i?'taent through the press or otherwise of & Ptie result of the conference 5r Adopt Amendment BtlW A "proposed third amendment to the jpE JI16 contract asking that the company I. w'jefram ui the future from shipping any gJEieeta grown in 'Weber county to its f ac g WFl tones in other districts was oted upon 'favorably bv about one-half of the AftrMrs. associations of the county It EBpNrfil -therefore not be submitted as an BSKtameaajnent to the new 1916 contract BjS&lBft resolution was adopted at today s BHmegSu asking the eompanv to take MBBmjsreps. The proposed amendments HHMp bet contract are HE&MlF-After the grower has been told BTSsS$agar eompanv to dig his beeta, IIBBBtec told to cease digging the RMpsf must allow the farmer three HbKb gxaoe to gather up and take BHE'1sairig station the beets already The sugar company must BmH at the designated loading HBMBjl&Teeeive beets as offered or r PKgmBot available allow the farm ers to dump the t beets on allotted ground near by the sugar ompui3 tc bear all expense of del ery aite th beets are dumpel The company r turthera-noe of th s plan w U be askeij to purchase or lease ground near the loading stat ons for the larmers to dumj beets on. Obtain Expressions In accordance w th nstru t ons gi en to directors ot the bu eau at the eet no- ot a week ago near e cr u m be of the ent al bu eau eported to day that he hal ether ailed a spe al meeting ot his branch assoc at on or ob ta ned from the beet &ro vers an ex press ou as to the ontracts an 1 the reposed amendment Vi thou ex ep t on the d re tors toda reported the i beet growers n ta or of ne flat rate contract pro d ntx payn ent at the rate of $o per ton for bee s of not less than 1 per cent ac har ne content Sea 1 e e d str ct ac ord ng to the rej.o ts also declared n ta or of the t two amendments vhile only e ght o t ot ae enteen oted for the th rd amend ment on runn ng all beets at the Ogden tactorv The bureau d rectors who repo tel at today s meet ng together with the dis tncts they represent are as follows Thomas 1 owles Hooper T mothy Ken dell binta Albert breen Taylor John Ba ley North Ogden K T Khees Pleasant V ew P E Powell Marr ott W C Hunter Wilson T H Lowder Harr s llle J D Brown Farr West J L Eobson Plain Citv W Mar riott Warren David Hancock Slater llle H. B Stalbngs Eden Al P Brown Boy T R Tones, Kanesville W C Hunter Wet Weber and D D McKay Huntsv Ue Discuss Instructions No small amount of tune was spent bv the bureau d rectors in d siussrag what instruct ons should be given to the committee for deliver of the grow ers dec sion on the contra ts an 1 amendments. The question was whether the committee should be em powered, to negotiate with the eompanv in case the decision is not favorable to the officials or merely make an ad verse report to the central bureau As it had been virtually assured by J F Barton a field superintendent for the company that the officials would not ob ject to the proposed amendments and the flat rate contract t was finalh decided to leae the matter entirely to tne committee the growers to await the announcement of the Teeult On the proposed amendment concern ing the reduction of all beets at the Ogden factory D D McKav presi dent of the bureau argued that ap proximately (40 000 is Tost to Ogden eity anl Weber eountv n labor and beet pulp bv the eompanv s practice of freighting from lo 000 to " 000 tons of Weber county beets to the Logan factorv everv mason There s always a shortage of bet pulp in th s eount accord ng to Mr McKav and he objects ob-jects to the I estock n en of Cache val ley obtaining pulp that rightfully be longs to Weber farmers. In the resolution on this point the bureau urges that the amalgamated So far company beralter take care of all eets grown n Weber county at the Ogden factory Other than conaidera tion of the beet problems onlv matters of minor importance were passed upon bv the bureau 1 rectors today |