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Show NEGOTIATE REMOVAL OF SM FtCfll Conference Held With Officers Of-ficers of Canadian Concern Con-cern to Discuss Plan. The allied boosters for a sugar factory fac-tory In Salt Lake county, intrenched behind be-hind the determination to accomplish tho manufacture of sugar within the terri- , ton which they represent, bopa" definit negro tlat ions yesterday with the Knight Sugar company interests toward accum- ! pHshinc; the removal of the Knight fac- tory at Raymond. Canada, In this county. A conferenr.-e of the officers of the Knight company, the Utah-Idaho tfuKar company, the Amalgamated Supac corn-, pany and a representative committee of tho United Commercial clubs of the county began in the Beehive house at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and continued con-tinued for more tha n three hours. The countv delegation left tho conference with high confidence that the answer to thoir proposal, which Jesse Knight promised prom-ised would bo ready within a fortnight, would he in their favor. Amonsr the representations of the county committee was an assurance that none "of the beet tonnage now sjoing" lo present factories from iHalt Lake count y should be deflected to the supplying1 oi the proposed new factory, whether the Knight factory should he brough hexe or one built primarily by county interests. Those present at tlv conference were Jesse Knight, E. F. Ellison, J. AVUIiam Knltfht and R. E. Allen of the Knight company; T. R. Culler anri C. W. Minify Min-ify of the Utah -Ida ho eomoany ; I.. R. Rccles of the Amalgamated company; lancls W. Kirkbam of tin- Utah Land Ac Irrigation company; J. W. McIIenry, J. P. Hamilton. V.'. "W. Wilson. Joseph Hib-bard, Hib-bard, John W. Weedon and W. S. Mackay Mac-kay of tho United Commercial clubs of Salt Lake county, and W. P. Jensen, V. K. Hubbard and Orson li. Hewlett ui the Sail Lake Commercial club. The representations of the county corn-mitl corn-mitl ee to the Knight company wero sot forth as follows: We v.111 give you a suitable site of 100 acres of land with good drain-ape, drain-ape, also three second feet of water wa-ter to be used whenever needed to operate factory or other purposes pertaining thereto. We further guarantee 50,000 tons of sugar beets delivered at factory at $5 per ton, or at suitable loading stations within the county at M-To per ton, providing that if the price of sugar beets shall advance we are to share and phare aliko with the beet growers of the state. We will also help place any pa rt of the stock your company may de-pire de-pire to sol to the farmers and business busi-ness men of Salt Iake county and elsewhere not to exceed 41) per cent, and we pledge you our hearty cooperation co-operation and good will, which, after all, in the last analysis is the greatest great-est security and guarantee of your future success. Attached to the letter of Inducement was a list of fifteen reasons offered b; the committee why the Knight company 1 should select Salt Lake county for the I location of Its factory. i |