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Show THE CITIZEN 29 FACTS REGARDING SUGAR You frequently hear people say that we Americans eat altogether too much sugar, and that sugar is bad for the teeth, etc. Whether this is true has not yet been scientifically determined, but there are some things that we know about sugar. For example, the two nations of the world which stand out most prominently in athletics consume more sugar per capita than any other country. We also know that the stevedores of the tropics who load the ships with sugar and who are frequently called upon to carry bags of that commodity weighing as high as 325 pounds, brace themselves for their arduous task by dissolving sugar in water and imbibing the solution in large quantities while performing this most strenuous work, and although working from morning till night, their physical condition is said to be marvelous. Therefore, to meet the strain of severe athletic contests, to keep in trim for hard labor, or to prepare for or counteract the effects of physical action upon the muscles or nerves that results from overtaxing the body, it appears there is nothing as effective in the way of fuel as sugar. According to Professor Chittenden of Yale University, a man performing light exercises needs 2360 calories for his daily work, of which, he says, 10 per cent should be protein, 30 per cent fats and the remaining 60 per cent carbohydrates. In other words, 60 per cent must be the daily fuel or energy supply as against 40 per cent replacements, repairs and lubrication. For 1 cent you can purchase 240 calories of refined sugar, as compared with 174 for bread, 129 for prunes, 115 for pork, 80 for cheese, 79 for milk, 72 for butter, 27 for fowl and 26 for eggs. From these statistics it will be observed that the cheapest food we purchase is sugar. In other words, when you can buy sugar at about 10 cents a pound, you get more actual food value than you do from any other article of our diet. In addition to our daily domestic requirements, the fl.nmifl.1 consumption of the United States of refined sugar, in the form of confectionery, amounts to 1,000,000,000 pounds; in ice cream and soft drinks, 675,000,000 pounds; condensed milk, 380,000,000 pounds; sweet doughs and cakes, pounds; canning and preserving, 115,000,-00- 0 pounds; bread, 112,000,000 pounds; chewing gum, 56,000,000 pounds. There are more than 3000 confectioners in the United States who em -- 135,-00,0- 00 1. Lehi Factory looking southwest. 2. Elsinore Factory looking southeast. Field of beets foreground. 3. Garland Factory looking northeast. UTAH GAS & in ploy 175,000 hands and $200,000,000 capital. There business exceeds $1,000,000,000 per annum and averages eighteen pounds per capita. These figures do not include 80,000 retail dealers who employ 350,000 persons. The candy industry is but one of many that depend upon sugar for existence. It will be noted from this data that the sugar requirements of the nation not only run up to enormous figures, but that the business of sugar making and distribution is a colossal one. That the state of Utah and Idaho play a prominent part in the sugar business is well known. For example, the production in these two states this year will probably reach a figure of 5,250,000 bags, or approximately 25 per cent of the total estimated production of beet sugar in the United States. Of this amount, only about 10 per cent is distributed locally, the balance being shipped principally to points on the Missouri river and east. The proceeds from the sale of this sugar will approximate thirty millions of dollars a sum much greater than is obtained from any other agricultural or manufactured e product of this section of the country. To produce this amount of sugar requires 127,000 acres of ground distributed over aproximately 15,000 farms and worked by three or four times that number of people. In addition, there are the factory employees who operate the twenty-seve- n mills. The payrolls of these factories runs into millions of dollars, especially during the operating season, so that it is to be seen from these figures that the welfare of our people to a very considerable extent is absolutely dependent upon this most important agricultural industry, hence it is not to be wondered at that practically everybody in the states of Utah and Idaho are very deeply concerned with its prosperity. One of the many problems confronting the industry is the continued propaganda of the refining Interests of the east to have the tariff on sugar reduced. That this will be accomplished, we cannot admit since in our opinion the president of the United States is not going to change a situation which means so much to the farmers of the sections of the country, who, after all, are more vitally interested in the rate of duty than any other class, and furthermore there has been no testimony submitted to the tariff commission which tends to show that the present rate of duty of $1.76 per cwt. exceeds the difference in the cost of producting sugar in Cuba and the United States, and this fact must be shown before any change is warranted. 100-poun- beet-growin- d g COKE COMPANY The National Copper Bank Nothing so definitely denotes the business status of a city as the financial standing of its- banking institutions and Salt Lake City is well represented in this respect as we have banking houses here that would grace the streets of cities of a half million population and in this respect the National Copper bank demands attention. The National Copper Bank has resources of about seven million dollars. - The officers are: Within the memory of almost everybody in Salt Lake, there was a time when gas ranges, gas heaters, and the convenience of gas general in the home, were luxuries. Today gas is a necessity nearly every family in the city uses it. About 1894 a plant for making artificial gas was built in Salt Lake. This plant was a very small one, and didnt grow very much during the next dozen years, for In 1906 there were only about 1,500 gas meters in town, representing that many homes using gas. But the year 1906 saw the beginning of the first serious attempt to provide gas service to the city on anything like a complete scale. The city was at that time, as youll remember, quite a large community, having a population of all-arou- nd nearly 100,000. Many of the streets were paved, and this increased the cost of laying the gas mains. However, they were laid, and today there are about 193 miles of gas mains, and 290 miles of service pipes under the streets of Salt Lake. About 15,000 families are now served with gas. The plant that keeps these mains and pipes filled with gas, instantly available whenever you turn the valve, is one of the most modern gas plants in the country. As a matter of fact, it can be called two plants in one, for it comprises facilities for the manufacture of gas by two separate processes. Of course, the construction of these hundreds of miles of mains and pipes, and the strictly modern gas plant, entailed an enormous expense. Upwards of three millions of dollars are repre- sented in the plant and distributing system which supply you with gas for cooking and heating. And the expense is going on all the time to keep the system in repair, and to construct additions. During September, 1923, the Utah Gas & Coke Company added materially to their service by Installing a heating rate. This rate is of such a nature as to enable the people of Salt Lake to heat their homes during the winter with gas fired furnaces. This method of home heating, tried out by several Salt Lake citizens during the winter of 1923-2bids fair to be a wonderful success. Not only is it a great convenience to the customer, but is a benefit to the community by using smokeless fuel. 4, President W. W. Armstrong. Vice President Lafayette Ilancbett. Vice President Eugene Giles. Vice President Sherman Arm- strong. Cashier J. A. Malia. Asst. Cashier T. J. Chamberlain. Directors V. V. Armstrong, James Farrell, L. S. Cates, Eugene Giles, Geo. II. Dern, Lafayette Hanchett, J. F. Dunn, D. MacVichie, A. C. Ellis, Jr.f Sherman Armstrong, Sherman Fargo, G. M. Whitmore. |