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Show Western Farmers Paid $8,350,000 Today For Beets SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 15 (U.R) Cliecks totaling ?8,-;0,000 ?8,-;0,000 were distributed to 17,000 sugar beet growers in live western states today .as initial payments on the 1939 harvest. Payments were based on a price of $4.05 to $4.50 a ton. Utah county growers and plant workers will receive close to a million dollars. The checks were distributed by five companies operating in Idaho, Utah, Montana, Oregon and South Dakota. Additional Addi-tional payments for harvests after Nov. 1 will be made later, while officials said growers who comply with terms of the federal sugar control act will also receive $1.80 to $2 a ton in government benefit payments-, probably in late January. Checks to 7,000 Idaho grow-ers 2 for slightly over 1.000,000 tons totaled $3,500,000. The 8.000 Utah growers who produced slightly under un-der 1.000.000 tons, received $2,-500,000. $2,-500,000. In Montana 616 growers received $645,000. In Oregon, payments totaled S600.000, going to 1300 growers for 235.000 tons. South Dakota's checks totalled $277,200. On Nov. 20, $946,000 will be distributed dis-tributed to 918 growers in Washington. Wash-ington. Sugar industry officials said payments were made in the face of an unsteady market, prece-dented prece-dented by war-scare buying early this fall that caused wide fluctuations fluctu-ations in the sugar price. I Companies making payments today and the amounts represented repre-sented are as follows: Utah-Idaho Sugar company plants at Garland, West Jordan and Spanish Pork, 3400 growers, $1,215,000; The Amalgamated Sugar company plants at Lewiston and Ogden, 2800 growers, $850,000; Layton Sugar company. 650 growers, $233,000: Gunnison Sugar company, com-pany, 1000 growers. $300,000; and the Franklin County Sugar company com-pany at Preston, Idaho, 800 growers, grow-ers, $390,000. Under the terms of the contract which the grower has with the pro-. pro-. cessor for 1939 beets, the grower is paid on the sugar content of the beets and the net selling prices of sugar obtained during the year. Therefore, if prices are sufficiently sufficient-ly high, additional payments will be made to the growers with final settlement October 15, 1940. xn auuiLiun to me Deet payments, pay-ments, payrolls of the various companies being distributed during dur-ing the same period to factory and receiving station workers throughout their beet growing states were approximately a million mil-lion dollars. Besides this, there are many extra agricultural workers, railroad employees, coal miners, and workers in other allied al-lied industries who will benefit from the sugar beet harvest. NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (U.I? Leading sugar refineries today announced an-nounced a 10-point reduction in refined price for immediately shipment. ship-ment. National Sugar refining Co. posted a basic price of 4.90 cents a pound for all grades for immediate immed-iate shipment only. Arbuckle also reduced -its price for 4.90 cents cents a xound on the four-payment plan with guarantee only on immediate im-mediate shipment. American Su-! Su-! gar refining Co., mades its 10-! 10-! point reduction to 4.90 cents effec-; effec-; tive in all territories on prompt : shipment. |