| Show THE SUGAR SUBJECT A keply to the communication of jacob r F gates dates SALT LAKE CITY march 20 26 1888 editor deseret pews hews your correspondent who writes under date of march 1 from honolulu whose letter you published on saturday the divot says he be is afraid lest undue influence should be given to tn the me enterprise of the prospective utah sugar company in producing and manufacturing some portion of the million dollars worth of sugar we now consume I 1 am sure the people here ought to feel very grateful to him bim for his hia tutelary care and especially the poor and unemployed who might possibly obtain labor and consequent wages from a company of wealthy men who might be induced to invest capital on a prospective return of from 15 to 25 per cent if your correspondent had only given us reliable statistical information and answered my letter with figures clear cut aud and worthy of confidence instead of generalities and it may be that we could have obtained a be better ter understanding of the reason why the sugar planters olt of heats the e island can hardly keep their heads above water P but as it is he leaves them open to the suspicion that it is because they put something else instead of water under their heads beads for certa certainly isly it if the advantages and luperi oristes he claims for the islands are susceptible of proof and I 1 regard them so tar as I 1 am concerned without argument there must be some egregiously bad management as the cause of af their impending failure but without taking up your valuable atle space with unavailing unav aling controversy on OB the advantages of the islands as a sugar producing country their climate richness magnificent yield their ece e exceptions ce eions from duties and imported labor ifor or I 1 see by your em correspondents letter that tbt the planters have tried to remedy I 1 spoke of in my former letter and finding the haave labor incompetent have sought ought awaad tor tar better but your correspond deett does ates oot say ay how much more they pay for it ftc leaving the tee inference that they pay as much more for it as the proportion of superiority I 1 care only to know what can caa be done here by 9 company now on the eve of formation 1 know they can raise a ton ten of cape cane avd work it up into sugar syrup and cleaned seed for a six dollars and that the sugar at 97 per cent ja aper per lbs ibb the syrup at 30 cetteo per gallon and the seed at 50 cents per bushel will give gross returns of over 10 and they can do this with a capital on which the returns will pay from ly to rd 20 per cent net according to the amount 01 ol eane zd raffled and worked they 01 will moreover within five years after be employing irom from to hands and aad their annual output will be at least a quarter darter of a mil liou lion dollars now as we do not intend to make sugar here for the islands and do not intend to make sugar there for utah but do intend to make sugar here tor tar our own consumption we are aad satisfied winfied that the disadvantages we suffer la in comparison w with ith the are more than compensated pen sated by thel additional cost the they y are subjected to by the handling handlin g an and thousands of miles lof of water and land freight which has to be paid tor for before their sugar reaches us must have solid food on which to CX exist I 1 it must mast have production and man maa I 1 merchandising izing based epos purchase of goods gooda from abroad only serves to deplete by gathering up the money and paying it to men who earn it thousands of miles away and in this connection let me say that the shoe and clothing department of Z C M I 1 does more practical good to utah than all its merchandising izing for the institution ution adds not a picayune to the intrinsic value of the goods it sells and only by the employment iven to people here does it do real ganancial an ancial good except wherein by its large and powerful influence it serves to maintain reasonableness and stability of prices which we all readily see consequently if we are merchants we go to the wall but the real foundation of permanent and worthy success is production and manufacture right here at home and I 1 do not doubt for a moment that if we were reto to listen to the manufacturers of the eastern states who provide us avith with our shoes and clothing they would labor to discourage us from any deliverance from their thralldom by showing us how much superior their advantages are and they would bevery be very anxious lest an undue influence encell might be brought to bear in favor of any enterprise looking to production and manufacture at nome borne one other remark I 1 wish to make inake your correspondent claims that I 1 base my calculations upon wileys report I 1 beg to inform him that I 1 do not I 1 base my calculations upon what I 1 ac y saw and personally observed at the fort scott factory while in operation last september and october and as what I 1 saw there is corroborated by my ow own n a actual chua I 1 experience in utah I 1 speak peak of my 0 own wn and not an others knowledge and nd what I 1 say I 1 guarantee ARTHUS ARTHUR STAYNER |
