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Show FIGHT Oil TRUSTS -: LOVlQS PHICES CdifcrnhScrCcr.ny ; fl:!:es AVer o.i Aneri- - ' : - -. - V -f '- ' ' ' ' - A strong stuck Is being made in California Cali-fornia on the American Sugar Refining, company of New York, known as the trust, andj which. Is said to be- heavily Interested in Utah and Idaho. The trouble trou-ble started a, short Urns ago in San Francisco and was begun by the - Western West-ern Sugar Refining company, of San Fraaclsoo. , The attack was first made on the California .A Hawaiian Sugar company com-pany of Sas Francisco. - It is denied that the latter company belongs to the trust, although It sells 70 per cent of its product to the American of trust company, . - It is said that trouble has "been antlcl- pated between the two companies for soms time, and for that - reason the American Sugar company has been maintaining main-taining a price on beet sugar of 40 cents a hundred less than the market value of the cane sugar. , Recently the Western Sugar Refining company has come down 20 cents more a hundred. CoL Joseph Geoghegan, who Is connected connect-ed with the sugar Industry of the State, and Is familiar with It, was asked this afternoon what effect the trouble would have on the Utah trade. Mr. Geoghegan declared that the price of sugar was now lower. "We have been anticipating this trouble for some time," declared CoL Geoghegan.-"For Geoghegan.-"For that reason our company has been keeping a price of 40 cents a hundred less on beet sugar than the opposition company com-pany was selling cane sugar for. The price was recently cut 86 cents ft hundred by the Western Sugar Refining company. When this came It only affected our price half as- much ss It did theirs. "Of course the price affects the whole country ana also an eats the sugar Industry.- .. - - -. -. u - - |