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Show THE SUGAR INDUSTRY GROWS BIG AND FAT The Amalgamated Sugar Co. of Ogden, one of the Eccles family industrial in-dustrial enterprises, is operating in Utah and Idaho, but is extending its Operations into California anl other western states. This company had on its payrolls in Utah and Idaho in 1916 750 employees, employ-ees, paid in round figirres $50,000 a month in wages, and for 191' will employ 900 people and pay in wages $900,000. In 1916 the Amalgamated evpendf.d for all kinds of material, construction construc-tion and betterment in t&tfM suit's, $4,519,663.85, and its estimate of same expenditures for 1917 is $7,800,000. The Amalgamated Sugir Ce. has at its head, LeRoy Eccles, one of the coolest and industrially one of the keenest young men who has faith in the development of the wet.t and its resources. The Eccles interests extend to coal mines, electric and steam railroads, timber and sawmill operations, cattle companies and in fact all lines of production pro-duction that enrich our country. The sugar industry has been in a flourishing condition ever since the European war cut off supplies and increased in-creased consumption and it has been met with liberal expansion policies. The great rival companies in this western field are the Atralgnnv.ted and the Utah-Idaho Su;nr Co., the latter dominated by the Niblej -i of Salt Lake and their associntcj. |