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Show I THE PRICE OF BEETS 1 'A discussion of this I important question.. I . Doubtless there is no subject of great- I" er interest to the farmers of this district : , than tbo price to be pa'.d for sugar beets, I " This being the caso we reproduce some "'..; r articles recently pubfaled hi the Salt ' Lake daily 'papers on this subject. The llcrald says : I' "It is understood that the sugar lactory f -yiU pay 25 cents a ton more for beets next year than was paid this. It is further understood that the reason for i the advance is the fact that the new t tariff law has raised the price of eugar $1 J per hundred poui ds. "The advance in the price of beets is not at all equal to tho advance in the price of sugar . A ton of beets in a year j f when thoy yield what is called an nverago "per cent of saccharine matter will make ; aboutlO pounds of sugar. In such a year as tho present, when tho beet crop is not up to the average, a ton of beets I . .yields about 185 pounds of sugar. jf "Qnder tho now tariff tho sugar com- !' pany will get an additional $1.85 or $2.10 on tho sugar produced from each ton of 'beets, while the farmer who growB tho sugar beota ia only to get an additional 25 centg en his ton of beets. The did. aion of the "prout tnat t10 now tariff gives tho ougar manufacturers ins't k equitable. The manutacturei ia not put to a single new expenso to get the ad s' . dttional $1.85 or tho additional $2 .lj h for the sugar he mnkes from ft ton ol liSra&HRMKElfl&NKt' Wlim- the- Wftr scid ale was f ned Hf frSSito give additional protection to the pro ducer of sugar it contemplated the grower of tho beets as well as tho tanker of the sugar. Why should tho maker of sugar got $1.85 or $2.10 more for tho sugar he makes out of a ton of beets as tho result of tho now tariff while the grower of tho beet's ia only to get 25 cents? The additional ad-ditional profit should bo divided equally botweon tho producer of the beets and producec-of the BUgar." On tho following day the following article appeared in tho Tribune over tho . signature of Manager Cutler: "The Salt Lake Herald, in its issue of .this date has an editorial on the "Price y of Sugar Beota," in which it saya that the advance in the price of beets is not at nil equal to tho advance iu the price of sugar. It further says that a ton of "beets ih ayoar when they yield what is 1 called an average por cent of saccharine .matter, will make 210 pounds of sugar. ?t ( . In answer to the statements I will simply ,' say That this is the seventh year ol our operations, and the average BUgar content con-tent up to this date for the seven seasons ia 105 pounds of granulated sugar per ton of beets. v "Tho Herald then further says thafc , v under tho now tariff tho sugar company will got an additonial $1.85 or $2.10 on tho sugar produced from each ton of beets. Such a statement the Herald has no foundation for whatever. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing that tho tariff in tho sugar clause of tho Dingloy bill provides for a duty of $1.05 por hundred pounds on such sugars oa tho Utah factory manu. ; factures, thoro is nothing in the bill, nor in tho condition of tho sugar markets ! ' of tho world to guarantee any price .whatever for sugar, aa thore is no article of commerce on which thoro lias been i such a fluctuation of prices in the last few years, as in that of sugar, for reasons I which might bo elaborated upon in this article would time and space permit or -wisdom dictate. I will simply say that t ' when tho Herald makes tho statement , that tho farmer is not getting his proportion, I would bo glad td gq into ? V r Ml 1 i details of tho business for the past seven yours in Utah and compare conditions with tho averago farmer iu Utah wh0 has supplied the beetstaking into consideration tho amount of capital employed. em-ployed. thu riucK or i:et8. ' ''When the factory offers $4.25 per ton for bfets delivered it pays 25 cents per ton higher than any other factory in America in buying its beets for a stated price. Further, all beet eugar factories hao to take ft very great risk in contracting con-tracting for btioiftaia they nevfir require in their contracts a definite number o tona of beets, but have to contract for a certain number of acres. "Further, they are never sure at the time of contracting whether they will have a shortage of crops or a largo, amount of beets left on their hands that cannot bo worked at tho end of the season. "When the Herald undertakes to criticise the management of a busiuess or its policy, it should be better informed in-formed on the question at issue . When it enters the domain of the beet eugar industry it is very apt to show its ignorance, as it liaa done in tho article referred to. "Tho polfcy of this company has been from its incipiency to create a new industry in-dustry for Utah in which all concerned should participate in tho benefits accruing accru-ing from it, whether it bo the stockholder or the farmer, and we have spent large sums of money in the past in educating tho farmer up to the present standard that he has attained, which up to this date we have received nothing for. "I will state further that this ia the only factory in the United States tha1 has helped the farmer in the outlaying districts to pay tho freights on his beets' or to pay for the uploading of the same a,"they;wme.,iHi2,,rI?,i" '.rule to nae provisions in the contract in alrof the factories foia stated sum per ton to cover tixpenBefl of unloading, weighing! expiees, agents, etc., and when the Herald Her-ald insinuated that wo are not treating the farmers fairly, it ia not only untrue, but it is unwieo in tho extreme." |