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Show SUGAR DEAL INCLUDES FACTORY PURCHASE Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Oct. 2. Confirming the report that an exchange of stock had taken place between the Amalgamated Sugar company of this city and the Utah-Idaho Sugar company of Salt L,alte City, Fred G. Tnylor, secretary of the local company, announced upon his return from Idaho tonight to-night that the deal also included tho purchase pur-chase of the new Ilrieham City factory by the Amalgamated company. It is provided pro-vided that the local company shall assume as-sume control of the new factory on March 1, 1917. Mr. Thompson also confirmed the report re-port that C. W. Nibley had retired as a director of the Amalgamated corn-pan y and that D. C. Eccles had ceased to be a director of the Utah-Idaho company. Their successors have not been named. As a result of these stock transactions heirs of the late David Eccles and their associates obtain control of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated company. The New Kccles Sugar company, a $2,090,000 corporation, launched only a month ago, is also involved in the deal, in that it shall not invade the territory of the Utah-Idaho company. According to Mr. Taylor. 'neither the Kccles company nor the Amalgamated company are to enter en-ter Into territory competition with the Utah-Idaho company under the agrce- ment reached. |