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Show .-r" I' -fTALKS ABOUT SUGAR ' v' -W'. ' I J v . ... Manager Cutler gives F :i' , . -a review of this 1 " important subject. $ - . I $apV , . Editor Bakneu : The members of the 'ailSxl . ' ' ' -American Beet Sugar ProdcerB Asaoci- HPr' ' cs.aiion met on Thursday loBt at tl:eofllc0 $?J3mL's' -- i 'of the-Secretary of the Association, 132 'if'w' Murket St., San Francisco, where sub- l jects pertnining' to the welfare of the in- i ' . duBtry were thoroughly discussed; the two principal topics being the question thct is now up for consideration before ?, ' '. tntbo Secretary of the Treasury for ad- f '' r . "' mltting into the United States, free " . ' from countervailing duty, sugar from " j ' . ' 'countries on which no direct.oxport ,, ; ' ' bounty is paid, such bounties being paid ' , f" direct to the manufacturers of sugar gA on the manufacture itself. It would Kv . ,) . . uneah that if such sugars are admitted ,i into this country without the counter- . vailing duty being levied on them, Ger- " .; many would naturally so frame her laws that iustead of paying like she does to- day, a direct bounty on exportation, tho .' ' law could be shaped to defeat tho issue. , . Tho most serious question before the ' Association was that of-tho annexation 6 ' , ,1 oi" the, "Hawaiian Islands" and tho f ( effect it would have on the sugar interest I" in the.United States. I have not tim0 j " ' ' Ht thia writing io enter into details, but .'$ ' ' at a later date shall take pleasure in f ' .'"giving your readers somo ligures show- 0 irlg that tlio sugar industry ol tho United p States is seriously menaced by these schemes and it behooves the nianu-. nianu-. ' facturer and farmer alike to do all in ' - Ml their power to defeat it. k" : . l ItiB to bo -'ory muck regretted that jllUpgdSlbc?tjqropof JJtati and.BOino pajiiuaf, rfp' '" "' 'fi'jfJf California havo been a pftrtial failure this season, though in talking with beet growors genernlly in other lands, provisions pro-visions hnvo gduerally been made look-. look-. ing to u partial failure about once evory 7 years which at present naturally ' ' effects beet c? ops. I lind that even the i '" ,' same causes that effected the beets this rft f ,-3ear. also effected the- grape ciop of ' , . ' California. The saccharine qualities J m ' - contained therein has very naturally ! -ST deteriorated njul the wines were never V" -so low in prices as now, the quality of A ' the ordinary kind being poor. I talked .p , yitli sovoral grapp growers dunpgniy r '!, ' recent visit and they, told mo all that J df. .. 4 " ' fWiib'offered for ordinary wino is about 'fw. f , .-. " 10c tier gallon and the indrustry is very, 1' , nproductiyeattha,t,' . t i y. . ,.u ' T : A large newrefiner,y is beingequippedi J ' w T ' ''atPort Costa 'Just a few miles east of j f , i r SaiLFranclsco, tho projectors of which 'i I ' ..' control about SO.OOOitons of 95 per cent I ' f test raw Hawaiian sugar. The roflinery ! v -vilj bo finished about tho iBt of March i ' ' tioxt year and no doubt competition in j . ; refilling will bq seyore for awhile, and tlio price of sugar will bo much lower ' ' : than quotations t of tho present. "Tho fi "' testimonies of some of the best author- ities on this subject says that they ' oxpeot lower prices will ptevail for a while than over existed on the Pacifio ' coast, na tho present relinory which io I"" " merely a part of tlie Great American J 8u;;ni' refining interest, has had the t'rade,iti tlidir own hands for many years, and sugars' have been, during tuat time, much higher on tho Pacific than on the Atlautic coadt. A reverse' of this state of things is looked for and more particularly if the Hawaiian unnxo,tiou scheme goes through., Tho whole industrial in-dustrial business pf, tho United States is nowi, aroused on, the .question of tho future of the beet BUgar industry, and ' those who arn iu tho business already lire deluged with inquiries fn relation thereof? ThV one' Jlijng,, fear istho linjTa,Vti9jjo.VAboitBdono to it by.' promoters and boomers who tell, JBrobingnian stories' of the- wonderful profits made by tho factory nnucndeavor to induce, tho guileless, ipublic into taking tak-ing etocks. I will venture to assert right here that tako tho, 9 factories now in operation in ths United States that they have not paid 0 per cent per annum on their investment sinco the first year of their existence notwithstanding nlj tno bouuties, both by the government, and the State, that have been devoted to this industry; I do not My that wo shall not do better than this iu the future becauBO .if wo could noboxpect better results, not one more single factory would be built. The angar business is a very pecular industry and there nro a great many risks to tako, three of tho principal ones of which I will enumerate. First. Beet factories making their contracts with the farmers can only specify ucrea and not tons of beets, therefore they are subject to tho risk of a very euihll crop' or a very large one and the season being a short one tliereMsa possibility ol a great many beets spoiling on their hands. Second. Wo never know what will be the saccharine qualities of the beets which vary- from season to season. Thjrd. Tho pi ice of sugar fluctuates so much'that it is impossible to tell ut tho beginning of the year what wo shall obtain for our sugar even during that season. But he industry has come to stay, in my opinion it will he simply a question, as it is in all other business, a survival of tho fittest, and there isuo doubt in my miud that during the next 20 years it will grow to bo one of tho most extensive interests in America, Who is able to portray tho disappoint mentB and failures that must of consequence ensue. All localities aro not equal for beet culture, nor are all factories in mi aged alike, but through sad experiences will, rise Pheonix like" an induatry that will add millions to tbe'weajif Mjf thiajfrsatJepublic'and those wlib'thus'mako a success will be, ttie coiibervativo ones who aro willing to work and wait. Success in Utah must naturally be a little slower because we use irrigation and our lands and soils arc alluvial deposlts.kTliero are n great variety of such Eoiiafto contend witli it being very difllcillt to lind a tract of land of anycousideiable size where the sam0 conditions exiEjt. Very Respectfully, Thomas R. Cutlkii. " ' |