Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 12 | Soft Drink Famine Looming for State

I soft ii "If t I mm state ; Sugar Shortage lo Close Bottling Plants, Local Dealers Assert. p Soda n;,l,.r .-in. I f.tlii'r :-uft drinkn of K tin- varii-tv n I. 'nil hy 1 1"' local lnt ,:, llin' i:uii''.ti; , pnjmi.-i: lo li'-i-omti a 1'ix 'i nrv in Suit l.nl.f: within I lie next, few " welts, a,'i'iir,iiig to m.-ui.vj'-rs of the M-K M-K rioiis l,ot',ling .mii.ani:-, LwaiiM' of li! 1:1 f.horUigi! mI' Mii'iir. Sunn: of lllii! bnt-'-' t.ling plants ali'-.'nly liavn lui'-n i-lo-d l,c'iiu-:o of Hi'- hirk of i"igr, and others ii jirc pupplviiig only old ciijituuierH ami rrfi).iiig fii-w onli-i.H. I A .similar con, lit ion i;i r'-poi t.i!'l in' n olhrr i-ili -s and t'juns of lh'! flalo, and ' if is hihlv probable that nearly all H th soila u.M'T roiii-rns of I 'fall will ns close raiiy in .l. moiilli and not In; in a w ,,,ili.,n lo r.--iiiii.! -rations until tin: " middle, of October, when thu new crop of sugar conies in from tin: south, as F beet sugar cannot .hi: used in tho nianil-fa.-tiin: 'of soft drinks with any dugreo of f-atisfai-l ion. Prank .1. Hewlett, manager of tho i Hewlett-tV i Im.ii ItoviTtigr company, who h is ,ri-si.l'-iil, of lln: (.'tali Bottlers' as-'.' as-'.' Hoi nition, lias l.i-i-a in close touch with ,,! tin: bottlers of tin: statu during the last r week, and he is now considering the ad-1 ad-1 visibility of railing tho bottlers torjeth-li torjeth-li or for a eon Icrcrire, that something ! inav l.e done to relieve the situation. Reports from all of the. local bottling a enncerns how that they have been re-'ii re-'ii reiving but a small percentage of thu I sugar required for their business dur- 0 ing the siiiiimer months, and that on b August I tin y were allotted ,".u per cent " of their psii'matu of .sugar for August i of last year. Some of the iminui'aetur-; iminui'aetur-; ers say they have not received nil per cent and hnvi run on a short allowance til us ! a r this month. The manager of one of the local soda "water works said yesterday that up to 1 June 1 his concern had been allowed 7fi i per cent of the amount of sugar used I during the first half of Hi 1 7, and that .after ,hiuo 1 the amount used during .Inly, August and .September was figure, fig-ure, 1 up and the consumption for the I three months was cut. in two to furnish a basis for tho supply for the present II summer. Tho extraordinary hot weather of the . last two mouths has made n heavy drain ' on the soda water manufacturers of the i state and tin1 output has been great,! completely exhausting the supplies on hand and reduced allotments. While tho manufacturers arc not J, complaining, feeling it is their patriotic I duty to share their portion of the bur-! bur-! den of supplying sugar for the armies, :, they regret that the food laws of Utah prohibit the use of saccharine as a sub-I sub-I utitiite for sugar. In Colorado and Ne- " brarska the. use of saccharine is permitted, permit-ted, one pound of tho substitute cou-1 cou-1 taining Iho sweotness of 100 pounds of ! Mignr.