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Show FIX OPENING Unltii OF SUGArTFACTDRIES Utah-Idaho Sugar Company Com-pany Anticipates Record-breaking Record-breaking Crop. In anticipation of the l.iei,t sugar beet crop 'in the hi.-tory of 1-tah and Idaho, the Utah-Idaho Sugar eon. pan? has completed arrangements for the opening of its different factories and the opening dates tune l.cen announced. The ;a.!and factory, the first to be opened, will begin work ou September ,3; the Lehi fa-tory M September 0; the Pavson, Sevier. Biaekfool, Idaho Falls and Sugar City factories on .September .Sep-tember i. j According to Manager T. K. Cutler ot j the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, a banner ban-ner vear is predicted lor tne sugar ,n-1 dustrv in the iotern.ouutain reg.on. i ;c . acreage is larger than usual. , t.ie yield f aboVe normal and the quality ot the beets is excellent. . , But according to reports received ov Mr. Cutler, the sugar beet crop in . United States this year will be about loli'JUU tons thort of last year, and tne cane suar crop about 120.UUU tons below be-low the average. The reason tor tne; beet sugar shortage, he sa.d. was Que to tariff influence-. Seventeen out ot eventv-seven beet sugar refineries in this eountrv have been closed since the reduction in the tariff. The cane sugar industry in Louisiana has Buttered in a like manner and it is estimated that this rear's output will be approximate-; lv linOOti tons, or 12".0'.'C tons below ; th average. The drouth in Cuba has; affected the sugar crop to a certain ex- ; tent, but just how much nas not yet been determined. La?t year Cuba produced pro-duced 2.700.000 tons of su,gar. The largest recent sale of sngar has been announced from New Vork. According Ac-cording to a telegram received by Mr. Cutler, the British government has purchased pur-chased 5rtV) sacks of Cuban sugar for lanuarv delivery. The Cuban sack? ot I sugar run about" P20 pounds each, equaling equal-ing three and one-fifth of the American sacks. The Cuban crop is harvested later la-ter than the American crop and the date of delivery has been set well along! in the season in order that the new j stock mav be applied on the order. No large local sa'es have been recorded re-corded recently. The demand for o-.crnr o-.crnr is -eported to have been lighter since t'ue price was advanced and the Utah-Idaho Sticar company eipeets to have a considerable quantity of the neiv stock ready for delivery before the j old stock now "on hand is exhausted. |