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Show COUNTY IS UNANIMOUS INJEETING Price of $7.50 Per Ton Will Be Demanded For 1927 Crop; Every District In County Attends.' Utiih county boet growers will demand, de-mand, a $7.50 per ton minimum natautee for tbeir 1927 beet. crop. This decision was made unanimously unani-mously at the annual meeting of Ibe Utnh Central Beet Growers association as-sociation held in the city and county coun-ty huildin- Saturday ' afternoon. Every beetgrowini; . district of the county was represented at Hie meeting, meet-ing, over which . I. W. Gillmari, president pres-ident of the associatimprc;Mlded. .Must Participate ill Revenues A report, of the executive committee com-mittee covering the pust year's activities ac-tivities was read iiiid approved:-The meeting Indicated unusual interest, despite the-fact that beet growing in this county was a loosing game during he past year.. In his-opening remarks President Gillman declared that the growers had reached a point in the industry Where they inusf participate in the revenues of the finished' product if they are to succeed with the industry. indus-try. This, he pointed out, can only he done by organization the destiny of which depends on the individual member. Dissatisfaction Expressed -,S;. Q. Cbiistensen' of Salem declared de-clared that in his opinion the growers grow-ers have just cause to be dissatisfied dissatis-fied with the manner-in which the J920 contract was negotiated. lie declared that until the sugar company com-pany is willing, to meet the grower on a more equitable basis it need not expect any increased acreage of beets. George C. Scott of Lake View declared de-clared that he eonld make far greater great-er money, by raising other . crops than sugar beets at last year's prices! , Harry Gammon of Vineyard expressed ex-pressed his confidence in tlie' association's asso-ciation's committee, and declared that he had not lost confidence in Hie sugar company officials. lie believed, be-lieved, however, that Utah should receive equally asr muell for beets as was offered Idaho, growers. . Organized Effort Urged Bishop Ralph B. Morgnn of. Spanish. Span-ish. Fork made a strong plea for organized effort id procuring a satisfactory, sat-isfactory, contract with the sugar companies. He, .too,-expressed confidence con-fidence in the. local and state organizations organ-izations and in conclusion paid glowing tribute to Ephraim Bege-sen,. Bege-sen,. former .president of the state organization. A. H. Lowe of Orem urged the need of- weighing the question of pric.e:setting from every angle. He reviewed briefly the history of the sugnr-.be'et iudustry in this county, and1 declared that the Utah-Idtibo Sugar company has suffered grievously griev-ously from a series of errors it had made and declared thnt the last of these blunders was that of offering Idaho growers a greater price than that they are willing, to py Utah. Iloss Is Speaker--' , , ; J-'.olluwiiig the-decision of tlie association as-sociation to demand $7.50 -for the 1927 beet crop, W. Harvey Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company, addressed: the members, lie was at the; meeting by special invitation of the association members. mem-bers. ' He' told the beetgrowers of this comity that he heartily approved of their-action, because he believed that they had done the right thing. He declared that if the sugar companies!' com-panies!' cannot pay enough to warrant, war-rant, the farmers growing beets they cannot hope to survive, as they must hnye a lurjtp tonnage in order to exist. Their chances of surviving, he pointed out. are much greater it' their warehouses are full of sugar than if they have none. Ho expressed' express-ed' the lieiief ' that there are too many factories in this county for all of them to expect to operate each year. It1 is almost useless for a company to expect to get by with a 35 or 40 days' run. Few factories, he said, can expect to operate successfully suc-cessfully on less than 100 days' run. Appreciation Expressed In conclusion Mr. IJoss declaret: that if the T'tah county fanner-: have difficulty in negotiating a se.;-sfactory se.;-sfactory contract with the companies compan-ies that have factories in their f ritory he would be glad to ham'':' from one to two thousand acres nf local beets at 1m. 50 per ton if his icompany were advised in snffic. nt .time. Mr. Ross' talk was received with 'enthusiasm by the local growers, 'and a resolution expressing their iappreciation of his presence and his attitude toward the growers was unanimously passed. J. W. (Jillnian of Orem and Ralph IS. Morgan of Spanish Foil;, were re-elected members of the executive committee of the association. |