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Show SUGAR FACTORY WM Two Manufacturing Concerns Con-cerns in Competition in Securing Beet Contracts. , Special to The Tribune. LANDER, Wyo., Dec. 7. The Wyoming Wyom-ing sugar war, which began ten days ago, following the announcement that the Wyoming Sugar company, a subsidiary sub-sidiary of the Amalgamated Sugar com-, com-, pany, would erect a million-dollar fac-j fac-j tory at Worland and compete in that territory witii the Great Western Sugar company, which is completing a $600,-0U $600,-0U factory at Level J, sixty miles north of Worland, has spread to the Lander valley, and today representatives of the two concerns are working feverishly among the formers signing up sugar: beet acreages for the coming year. Representatives of the Wyoming j Sugar company have signed au agree-, in en t with the Lander Commercial club to erect a factory here as soon as 5i)00 j acres of beets are signed up. A similar! agreement has been made with the busi-; ness men of Hivcrton. thitv -niles north- ! east nf Lander. Thr contracts call for, the shipment, of beets to the Worland fai.torv in 1917, and for their delivery at Lander and Riverton factories in 1918, provided the requisite acreages arc signed up in time for the factories to be completed by the fall of that year. These arrangements were completed and committees representing the business busi-ness interests-' of Lander and Riverton were in the field signing up beet acreages, acre-ages, before the Great Western company, com-pany, which had made several preliminary prelim-inary investigations and surveys in this section, became aware that the Wyoming Wyom-ing Sugar com puny had extended its activities to the Wind river valley. Immediately Im-mediately upon receipt nf this news the Great Western - company dispatched emissaries to Lander, the party arriving arriv-ing last night, and today these agents are also signing up local acreages on contracts requiring the shipment ot beets to the Lovell factory, and are negotiating with Lauder and Riverton business men for factory agreements similar to those entered into with the Wvoming Sugar company. The price offered for beets for 1917 delivery is the same as that contracted in the Worland Wor-land and Lovell districts, whieh is $1 per ton more than the Great Western heretofore1 has paid for Wyoming beets delivered at the Billings factory. The plans of the Wyoming Sugar company com-pany call for 1000 acres of beets in the Lander district in 1917. This acreago virtually has been signed up. What additional ad-ditional acreage the Great Western can sign up in the district for 1917 is problematical, prob-lematical, but it is certain that the farmers of both the Lander and the Riverton districts will provide the 5000 acres necessary to secure Wyoming Sugar company factories in 191S. Whether these acreages will result in the building of factories by the Wyoming Wyom-ing Sugar company or by the Great Western company, however, remains to be developed. There are at the present time only two sugar factories in Wyoming, the Great Western factory at Sheridan which was completed this year, and the same company's factory at Lovell, which will be completed in a short time. The Great Western company, operating in the state without opposition heretofore, hereto-fore, and with a heavy investment in plants and dumps in the Sheridan district dis-trict and the Big Horn basin, had considered con-sidered Wyoming legitimately it's exclusive ex-clusive territory prior to the announcement announce-ment ten days ago of the entry of the Wyoming Sugar company into the Big Horn basin. Immediately the Great Western company boosted the price it had been paying for beets for tho Billings Bil-lings factory, and which it apparently had intended to pay for beets for the Lovell factory, in an attempt to wean the growers who had signed up with the Wyoming Sugar company away from their contracts with the latter corporation. corpora-tion. The Worland farmers, desiring the erection of a factory at Worland, and this development being contingent upon their fulfillment of thel contracts with the Woming Sugar company, however, have stood bv the latter to' date. The Lander and Riverton farmers probably will follow the same course unless they can fefctvure from the Great Western company com-pany more advantageous contracts, involving in-volving factory construction at the two towns. |