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Show Bonus Checks Raise Total to $300,000 Beet checks, aggregating approximately approx-imately $7,000 were received by the beet growers of this district the first of the week from the offices of the Gunnison Sugar company at Salt Lake. The money comprised the third bonus paid by the sugar company com-pany for the 1923 beet deliveries and was at the rate of 21 cents per ton, that amount having been obtained by the prevailing prices of sugar. With the payment of the third bonus the beet growers of this section sec-tion will have received a grand total of $8.71 per ton for the beets delivered deliv-ered last fall. The grand total distributed dis-tributed by the Gunnison Sugar company for the 1923 beets alone, will go beyond the $300,000 mark. In addition ad-dition to this a 50-day campaign was conducted, many improvemetns were made at the factory and altogether nearly three-quarters of a million dollars were distributed by the factory fac-tory officials. "We are mighty glad we were able to make the payment of the bonus at this time," said W. Harvey Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company and who, is here this week making a personal inspection of the starting of the big plant. "Due to the strenuous times existing the past few years, the money question has been a perplexing one and while the bonus just paid is small, it will aid materially in harvesting and will help to tide over until the first of the 1924 checks are paid out some time during the early part of November. We in Gunnison Valley, are extremely extreme-ly fortunate, however, and while the cro will fall short of our expectations, expecta-tions, due to the drouth, the harvest here will exceed that in many other section both in Utah and Idaho." |