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Show SUGAR MAKING IN UTAH AND IDAHO. H At the annual meeting of the stock- H holders of the Utah-Idaho Sugar H . Company the financial reports for the H last year's operations showed in- H ' creased expenses in labor and ma- H tcrial. The cost of working up the H" beets had, therefore, been larger than H in any preceding year; coal alon had H cost 35 per. cent more than the year H previous. A special item showing H the increased cost of operations was H that of 'sugar bags, which ar.o given H nway id the trade, the bags always H containing 100 pounds of refined H sugar. J his item alone involved an H outlay of $146,447.43. Other items of H expense were as follow: H The beets paid for a Minted to H 422,532 tons, at a cost, including H freight, of a fraction over $5.1' a ton, H a total of $2,187,395.99. Coal and coke, $328,48340. H Lime rock, $52,538.94. H Taxes paid in Utah and Idaho, v H 144-37. - m Paid for labor, $430,000. |