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Show Western Beet Men To Get 10 Million For Current Crop SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 15 (U.R) Western sugar beet growers today received payments totalling $7,250,000 from five sugar companies com-panies located in Utah and Idaho. Federal benefit payments for beets paid for this initial period were expected to amount to nearly near-ly $2,450 000, bringing total pay- ments to growers to nearly $iu,-000,000, $iu,-000,000, according to Fred G., Taylor, vice president and acting general manager of the Utah-Ida-j ho Sugar company. 1 Of the payments made by the company today, Idaho farmers were scheduled to receive $2,850-000; $2,850-000; Utah, $2,260,000; Montana, $775 000; Washington, $700,000; Oregon, $690,000, and South Dakota, Da-kota, $450,000. Approximately 1,400,000 tons of sugar beets -delivered .to factories fac-tories before Nov. 1, were involved in-volved in this period's payments, Taylor said. Payments by the companies were made at the' rate of $4.40 per ton in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, $4.25 in Washington, and $4.50 in South Dakota. The high- cr rate in Soutn Dakota was aue, Taylor said, to the higher sugar content of the beets and proximity proxim-ity to shipping points. Federal benefit payments will be made at the rate of approximately $1.75 per ton, Taylor said. Companies included in the payment pay-ment figures were the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, Salt Lake City; the Amalgamated Sugar company, Ogden, Utah; the Layton Sugar company, Layton, Utah; the Gunnison Gun-nison Sugar - company, Salt Lake City, and the . Franklin Sugar company, Preston, Idaho. The seven million dollar company com-pany total is approximately $2,-000,000 $2,-000,000 more than the intial payment pay-ment figure last year, although the rates are lower. . The Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho company payments total approximately $4,000,000. The Amalgamated company of Ogden will pay more than $2,500,000. |