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Show I ; Aj- the World j The War on Beet Sugar. The American Sugar Refining Company, Com-pany, otherwise known as the sugar trust, recently began a war upon the beet sugar industry by cutting the price of granulated to 3 cents a pound at Missouri river points." This nas Deen rollowed by a reduction of price in all states from Colorado to California amounting to 30 cents a hundred pounds on beet sugar and 20 cents on cane sugar. The object is to deal a blow to the beet sugar manufacturers manu-facturers in their own territory. The recent report of Secretary Wilson on the beet sugar Industry estimates the total product of 1901 at 19S.500 tons, of which 119,000 tons come from the Pacific Pa-cific coast and Rocky Mountain states, besides 7,000 tons from Nebraska, California, Cali-fornia, with an annual output of 80,-000 80,-000 tons, Is the leading producer. |