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Show Sugar Is Basis of Utah's Continued Prosperity Utah has reached second place among the beet sugar states of the j union. Ouislripping California and Michigan, this state now stands next to Colorado in volume of sugar production, pro-duction, says the Ogden Standard- ' Examiner. Idaho stands fifth in production. pro-duction. The two are closely inter-, linked in the sugar industry as well as every other agricultural and manufacturing man-ufacturing enterprise. There are 93 sugr factories in the United States. Of this number, 27 are situated in Utah and Idaho, j From thee intermountain plants there is an annual production of over 400,000,000 pounds of granulated granulat-ed sugar, with a potential production of at least 600,000,000 pounds if the additional beets can be secured. The j estimated cost of these factories is 2 1,000,000 in money, representing its purchase price, was returned to this district to sustain its payrolls, its commerce and its industry. This is "new" money for Utah and Idaho, the cash that helps to hold up and build up the intermountain states. Sugar beets are important as a rotating ciop in the modern and profitable pro-fitable system of farming. All other oth-er crops increase in yield when planted plant-ed with sugar beets. This is an added add-ed profit to the general agricultural industry, arising from the sugar industry. The sugar business belongs to each and every person in the inter-! inter-! mountain country. It is of vital fin-I fin-I ancial importance to each and every one. The people of Utah and Idaho are and should be vitally interested .?jo,uuu,uuu. iney are supported oy over 15,000 beet growers to whom was paid over $10,000,000 for sugar beets last year. A substantial increase in-crease in this sum is in prospect for the present season. Over $5,000,000 is distributed in ! wages each year, on an average, to the army of employes who devote their time and their talents to the operation of this industry. Annually $1,500,000 . is paid to transportation companies to the operation op-eration of this industry. Over $700,000 of city, county state and national taxes were paid by the industry last year. These are figures of significant in-' in-' formation; they are of vital impoj't-! impoj't-! ance to everv person in the inter- m atl its lortunes, lor it is through i tl-is channel, to a large extent, that Utah and Idaho must be upbuilt. When it suffeis, the people of Utah and Idaho suffer. When it prospers, the people of these states prosper. During recent years there has been built up what might well be termed i a partnership between the sugr companies com-panies and the sugar beet growers. It is a profit sharing plan, through which the farmers secure a basic price for their sugar beets plus a large part of the profits accruing to the sugar makers. At no other time I in the history of the sugar business. j has there been such an apparent spirit of harmony as now prevails between the farmers and the various vari-ous sugar companies. Under this ar- : rangement the books of the sugar companies are open for the inspection inspec-tion of the growers' representatives. The records of the sugar companies are open; exactly what is being done in the sugar business is known to the public. That is one of its most vital features. Recently southern Idaho suffered ' a million dollar loss in damage to j bean ciop by storms. This is j just one lesson that, sugar beets should be cultivated, at least to some , extent, on every farm in the sugar-beet sugar-beet districts. Diversity of farming j is a real keynote to success. Panaceas are being sought for the unhappy economic condition of the farmers, particularly in Utah and Idaho. The sugar beet method offers a safe and sure panacea, with added collaterial benefits with which it is interlinked. Utah and Idaho every person in both states should approve and support the sugar industry if for no other reason than that each person's financial condition is largely dependent depend-ent upon the continued success of the sugar business. mountain country. . There is no business busi-ness institution nor individual, from the largest banking establishment to the last and least laborer of either Utah or Idaho who is not profiting either directly or indirectly, through the benefits bestowed by this great industry. Utah and Idaho are so situated that freight charges are, of necessity high, because markets are far distant. dis-tant. The necessity of concentrating concentrat-ing shipping value, so that the transportation trans-portation cost will not consume too heavily of the revenue derived, is realized re-alized by those studying economic condition. The sugar industry lends itself perfectly, to this concentration of value. There is no other crop that can be planted in large areas that will produce the wealth peri acre that can be produced by sugar bee culture. An average acre produces over 3000 pounds of cxtractable sugar, sug-ar, with an average value in the past season of over $200. More than 350,000.000 pounds of sugar produced last year were ship-! ship-! ped out of the intermountain territory terri-tory to distant markets. More than |