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Show m RULING ON SUGftH PRICE Refiners Forecast Retail Ad-Vance Ad-Vance to $14 Per Hundredweight. Sugar wilt probably be selling retail to consumers at $11 a hundredweight in Utah in the near future, according to Henry H. Rolapp, president of the United States Sugar Manufacturers association, as-sociation, whose headquarters are in Salt Lake. Mr. Rolapp said yesterday that, although the sugar manufacturers manufactur-ers are not postitivo as to the exact interpretation to be placed on the government gov-ernment ruling fixing the wholesale price of 1- cents a pound, it is believed by the manufacturers that this means twelve cents seaboard basis at New York. New Orleans and San Francisco To this price, he said, must be added the freight rate from inland factories to Chicago or to the distributing poinl. As the freight rate in the west is from 28 to 30 cents higher than in tiv easi, refiners in the west, Mr. Bolapp said, will have to pay more freight than eastern refiners. "At Chicago the price will be about 112.46 to the wholesaler," -Mr. Bolapp said, "as t lie lowest freight rate from the nearest eastern seaport to that point is lb' cents. In Utah the price to the wholesaler will be about $12.56, that being the rvnboard price, plus freight from seaboard, San Francisco being the nearest port. Then the wholesaler whole-saler and retailer will each take a profit, which will make the price to tl3 consumer about $14. "The sugar manufacturers are await- ing definite instructions and explanations explana-tions of the new government ruling on the price of sugar, and t lie attorney general, it is thought, will send out these instructions by Tuesday. "Utah's sugar crop (his year has not been so large as formerly. The west manufactures about two-thirds of the entire beet sugar supply of the country and in the event of nny short a t lie west would suffer with the east. There is nothing definite to be said upon beet contract prices, as this is a matter open to negotiation." |