Show SUGA ADVANCES BEYOND 7 MA MARK K Sugar was advanced 20 O cents a hundred hun bun dred toda today Cane sugar Is now retailing retailing retail retail- ing nt at the hun hundred red an and beet ret et sugar at nt the hundred This advance ad appears ap pears to have como come as somewhat of oC a surprise to Ita local dealers who were advised advised ad ad- that there was nothing in the situation to justify jusUf the reports appealing appeal I in ing in this paper several weeks s ao ago go that there was an all advance coming in the I pric price There has been a considerable shortage short a age of the cane sugar crop in Cuba b by reason of oi the unprecedented wet season for cutting the cane and refining it In addition to the shortage e in the crop it has also been reported that there was 20 20 per cent less sugar being drawn from I the cane this season due to the continued eon conS be heavy rainfall while the cane wa was maturing General Manager Thomas Thoma R. R Cutler CItler of the Utah Idaho Su Sugar ar company said aia a afew afew afew few weeks ago that he did not think there was any reason for apprehension I on oil tho the part of the thc people in Utah over O the sugar situation at nt that time lb Ho He said that experience had hall proven pro that tho only time to look for a big iJ advance in in sugar was Vias durin during tho the preserving sea sea- son At the time Mr Cutler appeared to doubt the tho truth of oC the reports from Cuba and said that while he lie was advised advised advised ad ad- that it Wa was raining hea heavily on portions of the island bland he had not been advised ad that the rain was general |