Show SUGAR INDUSTRY HAS SLIM YEAR Drouth and Flies Drop Production Production Production Pro Pro- Yet Farmers Get Utah's sugar industry while hiIe not as flourishing as in 1933 because of the drouth and white fl fly pest paid out a total of to farmers who delivered beets to the plants o of th th three companies companies' which operated in il 1934 Of the total amount paid by tiC be Utah Idaho Amalgamated and Gunnison Gunnison Gunnison Gun- Gun nison Sugar companies Utah growers received for Octo October er and November deliveries The Utah Ida ho company paid a total of 23 2347 7 for beets beets' alone of which received The Amalgamated dis distributed ed to farmers in this state stale and the Gunnison paid to growers grower in southern Utah A record crop was produced in 1933 compared to the lowest lowest- in history in 1934 according to figures The estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated b beet bt et tonnage in Utah this year Is' Is only compared with nearly neat a a year ago Growers Jn the state however nave have an opportunity to recoup some of their losses incurred th through ugh the tte drouth with th proposed payment of 1000 under the thc the federal federal government adjustment ad ad- j contracts which are arc now being be ing signed by farmers When federal federal fed fed- eral product production l n control contracts which already have ha been signed by beet growers in Salt Lake count county are arc paid will be distributed as an initial payment under the plan Only four factories were operated in 11 Utah this year by the three com um panics Those were a at Lewiston Garand Garland Garland Gar- Gar land and Spanish Fork and Centerfield The bulk of the beets grown were delivered to the factories in Oct October Octo- Octo ber bel jer and both the Gunnison and Utah Utah- Idaho companies paid for their total 1934 crops in one payment The he Utah Idaho company with headquarters In Salt Lake City has fat mers growing beets beels in Utah Montana Mon Man tana lana South Dakota and Idaho while the Amalgamated of at Ogden has growers grower grow grow- er ers in Idaho and Montana in addition addition addition addi addi- tion to Utah The Gunnison compan corn corn- pan pany has only one plant at Centerfield Centerfield Centerfield Center- Center field Utah Idaho growers for the Idaho Utah company were paid on the basis o of per ton or Washington growers per ton or Montana growers aton or those in South Dakota 25 or and Utah growers on the toe basis asis of from tram ot at The price depended pa ga the sugar content of the beets grown The Amalgamated paid its iti growers in n Idaho moro more than and in Montana na more than Utah be were on a basis of per ier ton For Idaho Id and Montana beets beets the payment per ton ranged from to Th The Gunnison paid an average of per ton Payments made to all aU growers for their heir beet peet deliveries deliveries- according to officials of of- will be supplemented by additional additional ad ad- payments to b be made next year as as the sugar is sold a and d the amount distributed to depend on the price when it is sold |