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Show Gunnison Sugar Co. Closes Campaign The local sugar factory, after i highly successful run, when the plar i operated at the highest effieienev, with all previous extraction record.-, exceeded, will finish slicing beets Lite Thursday and will finish sacking s : -gar about Monday, when the plant will close down for the season. Notwithstanding the fact that the past season was not up to the standard stand-ard in so far as weather conditions were concerned, the production of beets was better than for several years past, a total of $275,000 was distributed among the growers who supply the local factory with beets. The last payment, comprising $50,000 was sent out from Salt Lake Saturday. Satur-day. This payment, under the contract, con-tract, was not due until December 15, but in keeping with the company's policy, the checks were sent out a month in advance. The Gunnison Sugar Co., is an organization or-ganization of which Sanpete and Sevier Sev-ier Valley's, and in fact the wholo state, may well be proud. The company, com-pany, which is controlled by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the nationally known chewing gum manufacturers, and Messrs. W. Harvey Ross and R. T. Harris, the latter being its president and treasurer, respectively, and r.c-tively r.c-tively in charge of its affairs, has achieved an enviable reputaton among all the beet growers in Utah. To this company, more than to any other interests, may be credited the present sliding scale contract, under which the growers enjoy a favorable participation in the profits of the industry. in-dustry. When the $7.50 minimum guarantee was announced in the state of Idaho, the Gunnison company was the only company to recognize the injustice to the beet growers of Utah, whose contracts con-tracts with other companies carried and still carry only a $7.00 guarantee, and it immediately granted to its growers, not only in Sanpete and Sevier Sev-ier counties, but in Utah and Salt Lake counties as well, the $7.50 guarantee. guar-antee. While the Elsinore plant of the Utah-Idaho pays $8.00 to its growers, grow-ers, and the Moroni plant of the People's Peo-ple's Sugar company, which is financed financ-ed by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, pays its growers $8.00, the former company, with large plants and beet acreage in Utah, Salt Lake and Box-elder Box-elder counties, continues to pay the growers in these districts only $7.00. Can it be seriously doubted that with the Gunnison company out as a competitor, the growers of Sanpete (Continued on last page) GUNNISON SUGAR COMPANY CLOSES SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN (Continued from page 1) and Sevier counties would get no more than a S7.00 guarantee? The loyalty of the growers to the Gunnison plant is shown by the fact that the plant has handled this year more thr.n three times as many beets ps the Elsinore plant, which handled not only its own contracted beets, but those of the Moroni plant. Further Fur-ther proof of the attitude of tbe growers grow-ers was demonstrated recently by the siming up by the Gunnison company of the contracts for the coming three years, with growers representing about 500 acres of beets at Midvale ind Crescent in Salt Lake county, who, from now on, will benefit by the -omnany's $7.50 contract. The constantly growing demand for Gunnison sugar has been brought ibout by a product which cannot be excelled in quality, and by reason of the efficient and courteous service given to the sugar consuming trade. It is interesting, indeed, to visit the local plant where every step is taken to maintain its efficient and physical pnpearance, not only inside the mill, but in its yards,, where lawns and shrubbery have been liberally planted, wd where the whole is surrounded by the most up-to-date fencing. The regular factory forces, which are, of course, largely augmented the operating season, are as follows: Hart Sanders, superintendent; L. J. Arnold, factory office manager; Roy Darlington, Darling-ton, assistant superintendent; John Adlmendinger, master mechanic; R. K. Gaddie, chief chemist; J. G. Doherty, electrician; George Bauers, assistant master mechanic; G. D. Peery, boiler house foreman; Chas. E. Embley, stores; Wm. Crabb, foreman; Lee Day, machinist; A. J. Thompson, sugar boiler; James N. Wilkinson, watchman; watch-man; J. W. Duffin, yards; Sophus Christensen, knife filer; Seeman Jensen, Jen-sen, assistant mechanic. D. H. Whittenburg is the company's agricultural superintendent. |
