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Show I BEET GROWERS I HAVE PAYDAY j SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 21 (V.V.) --Sugar beet growers in the inter-mountain inter-mountain west had a payday today. to-day. More than $5,000,000 was paid by Utah sugar companies for the first 1933 reimbursement. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company announced its payroll alone -.totaled more than $4,000,000. In addition, addi-tion, checks were sent out to farmers by the Gunnison, Layton and Amalgamated Sugar companies, compan-ies, to hundreds of farmers in Idaho, Utah, Washington, Montana, Mon-tana, Wyoming and Colorado. Larger crops this season promise prom-ise more returns to sugar beet growers this year than in 1932, sugar company officials announced. announc-ed. Sugar content of beets was reported averaging several degrees de-grees higher than the 1932 crop. The payment was the first of several sev-eral that will come on a market-manufacturer-grower basis. According to contracts signed last spring, the farmers will be paid for a per cent of the sugar beets they delivered to the companies. com-panies. The balance will be paid on a basis governed by the market price for manufactured sugar. |