| Show THE SUGAR OCTOPUS the air has been filled with ru more for the past several days clays to the effect that the widely talked talkea of sugar trust whose extensive and far reaching powers have only been vaguely known of in utah up till this time had at length entered this community in competition with the utah sugar company and that the home concern was seriously alarmed at the prospect proe of a light fight with the great foreign corporation po ration there to Is no doubt abat tha there are considerable sid erable grounds for all these rumors in past seasons the western refinery at francisco Francis cos which snips ships into utah all the outside sugar used here bore has haa simply imply held woot aloof during we the three or four months the product of the lehi lebi factory was on the market allowed mt that product to be exhausted and then reentered entered re the field fied in this thi way dan last year supplied utah with two thirds of her bar sugar and the he home company with the other third this thie year whether owing to the fact that the lehi factory expects to turn out a larger am than usual or of the financial af fairis ot of we the trust due to recent legislation are such that they are un unwilling willingto to give up the revenue venue from this Territory there meem beeme s to be a change in the program the officers of the lehi factory were made aware during the past few days that something was wrong by the fact that the orders for their sugar which ran u uniformly ni foral V at two carloads per day began to decrease and that in a manner which told them that the diminution was not due to to any lack of demand on the part of the public the lehi lebi sugar is admittedly the superior of the outside ct as the fact that it won the first prize in compe with the california sugar at the midwinter pair fair amply testifies it Is popular with consumers everywhere and when the orders for it began bagan to tumble it could be due to only one fact and that was that the be trust was secretly underbidding under bidding the local company and inducing certain jobbers who had hitherto handled bandied the utah product to 10 switch oft to the foreign manager cutler satisfied himself of this and then did the only shift brog assured the jobbers who otoe by the home concern that he would meet any price offered them by the trust to the credit of several beveral of the principal wholesale houses it bould be k known aown that they declined the overtures of the representative of the tru stand finally announced chatas long as the utah company had sugar to sell they would give that company the preference the only question now is to what lengths will the trust go in its endeavor to force the local institution out of the market with millions ol of capital back of it it could wage a warfare without feeling feell ni it that loulu soon be disastrous to any competitor sugar is already at a very low price and the margin of profit to the uta etab company is very small if indeed there be any at all what the effect of a further material out would be is very uncertain certain n the board of directors of the company held a two hour meeting this morning to consider the question there belog bellig present elias morris the preal deni dedi george Q can cannoo nun heber J grant francis armstrong wm B preston Pres too spencer clawson james jack ji J i G hardy john book beck manager cutler and secretary and treasurer whitney after the meeting manager cutler stated to representatives of the press prees who questioned him that the whole situation was discussed and while no final had been reached the he board felt confident that the loyalty and patriotism of the people would compel them to ata stand nd by the home company if there was to be any struggle especially as their sugar was at least equal to the imported and its if price the same |
