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Show V '1 he Season's Run. . AT J'''jpic aixtli season of manufacture of i Pugar from beets 1ms juot li tiiahetl enys ' . Manager Cutler in the Tribune. "Thct. I, ponderous 'Machinery stopped nil operations on January 24th last, after the longest run of its record, the factory having been in operation 135 , -days, and has sliced 455,200 tons of beets and turned out about 4500 tons of -sugar, v the bulk of which lias been sold in Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho Tlio price was the lowest ever known in M America, caused by excessive unpor- , tatiojiH of, .German; boinjiy 4feiln"hV ' ' which has recently doubled the export ."-,., bounty and increased the consumption tax to 4.70 per 210 pounds, nnd raised her duty to 4 l-l cents. This bounty is now 27, !J2Ja and Sif 11-10 cents per 100 pounds, depending upon the grade of sugar. Under this law Gcinany can Jay down sugar in New York 13!& cents cheaper per. 100 pounds than in 1805. -. The imp muttons would seem to indi cate that she is preparing total;end- ' vantage of her legislation and the inadequate rates of our present law, so that she now has : First Practically a prohibitive duty on sugar to hold her own market. Second A consumption tax of 2 2-10 cents per pound forrovenuo. Third An export bounty of from 27 to " .18 cents per 100 pounds to gain foreign niarkets for her surplus sugar. . i. "Give our domestic sugar producers - one-half only of the protection and en couragement contained in Germany's Br ,- duty provision alone, and guarantee it ffi, '. ' . Jor a reasonable time and we will Br- promise to astound the world in sugar RL production. The extra bounty, the iL, ; ' heavy dec'ine in the price of sugars, to-HfalHiiiL..hjMte,..M..t,, to-HfalHiiiL..hjMte,..M..t,, ,..i- ..' Ketber with alleged undervaluations ltJW""TOw nd valorem rnd-"eon- m , . "f ditional" invoice policy is a little mbre jEjjt.- than our domestic producers should be '' asked to carry without serious nppli- P, cation for substantial relief. Until such V jelief is obtained it is useless to ask L capital to embark in extending the in- K: dustry at a period so critical. There is Ijf' '' ,,- no doubt, however, that the next Con- ,r '' cress will come forwaid substantially p vi.4 and relieve the situation. |