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Show Higher Price For ' Sugar Is Expected , The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company has just announced an increase in the selling price of sugar in the area lying between Chicago and the Rocky mountains. This increase in-crease brings the seaboard price for a 100 lb. bag of sugar to $7.95, which is 40 cents above the selling price of sugar existing at the time the Secretary of Agriculture set the 1949 consumption quota. Hart Sanders, Manager of the South Salt Lake district, including the Gunnison factory district, stated stat-ed that this additional raise in price has not yet affected local prices, but states that advances in the sugar price locally is expected ex-pected shortly. Mr. Sanders called call-ed attention to the fact that this advance in sugar price will reflect favorably on the price which fanners fann-ers will receive for their beets. He stated that it was further concrete evidence that Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture Brannon meant what he said when he stated that, "Domestic "Domes-tic sugar prices should be higher in 1949 than in 1948." This is the second advance in sugar price since the Secretary made the above statement and set a favorable consumption quota for the year 1949. This advance coupled with the steady decline in other farm commodities brings sugar beets into the most favorable favor-able price position that has existed since the war began. |