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Show "A Voice From Utah." All the newspaper boys of Colorado know Frank Warner, and now that he is visiting the old grounds he is being besieged for interviews, the scribes knowing full well that they will get something reliable concerning Utah from Frank. The following from the Grand Junction Avalanche is one of the talks he has had : "The noticeable, difference between the conditions of Colorado ranchmen and those of Utah this winter is due to beet culture," Baid Frank Warner to an Avalanche reporter last night. "Along the Union Pacific and Rio Grande Western roads in Utah, from Payson on the south to Jordan Narrows on the north, almost every farmer raised a few acres of sugar beets last season and received for them a few hundred dollars in cash, at the Lebi factory. While fruits, vegetables and even live stock were almost entirely unsalable, sugar beets were $5 per ton, cash. And when it i3 remembered that the Lehi factory manufactured 4,000,000 pounds of Bugar, the aggregate aggre-gate in money distributed among the farmers of Utah is seen that, if distributed distrib-uted among the farmers of this valley, would put them in comparatively easy circumstances." "It is intimated that the factories could not run at a profit with the bounty removed," suggested the scribe. "I do not know as to that," was the reply, "but I do that the Lehi factory is arranging to increase its storage room and that Utah farmers are preparing to plant an increased acreage of sugar beets for the year 1894. lam told that the Lehi factory was buiit entirely with borrowed money, and that $60,000 was wasted in the construction of a refining annex which was useless and had to be replaced by a different process; yet it has got entirely out of debt and has money left for its stockholders," "Then you do not think that the lack of a bounty will affect the industry?" "I do not say that. Factories fostered by state and national bounties could certainly afford to pay more for beets than they could with the bounty withdrawn with-drawn ; but I do believe that the factories fact-ories even in the absence of all bounties could run at a profit and pay a fair price for beets. There ia a bill now pendimx in the TJtaK legislature yrovid ing for a bounty to the beet raiser instead in-stead of the factory but, bounty or no bounty, if the farmers of Grand valley will guarantee the beeta they will find no trouble in securing a factory ; and even if the prices paid for beets should be lower than heretofore, a cash market for anything at any price would be an improvement uponpressnt conditions." Mr. Warner had nothing but praise for the people of Utah and was especially especi-ally warm in commending('the industry, hospitality, energy and integrity of the Mormons. |