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Show PRES. EGCLES GIVES FINAL WORD Price of Beets lo Remain at Five Dollars Per Ton Tho final word has been given In tho mntor of tho price of beets, so fni ns tho Amalgamated Sugar Com-imnj Com-imnj Is concerned President David lCcclos 1ms given out tho following snmmunlcatlon which will oWdentty settlo tho controversy from his side. "To my mind, it Is child's piny to claim that tho committee dollvsrod us an offlclnl announcement which wna not tend, and, If read, was iiot-mW n.ul, if flue, did nut mean what It says, Lvcryhody knows that In 1910 the fall mrrs ngreed to go ahead and raise, l-oits for ?4.50 per ton, in retj"a fcf whirh wo promlsod to lniproo cor; A 1. binding facilities nnd gl'-M In V tho farmer's demand that, In 1011; tho Itrico should bo $1.7B per ton. That wns tho only question beforo tho mass meeting, and clearly, 'when wo received re-ceived tho official announcement of tho result of tholr notion, wo wero in honor bound to enrry out our promise and surely It can not, for n moment, bo believed thnt tho great majority of tho honest farmers In this commun1 Ity intended by tho meeting or by their commlttco's written communlca tion, to play us a trick, by which thq Sugar company was bound, but tho farmer's wore not. So far as our company com-pany is concerned, wo have lived, up to our promise and that Is all wo can do and nil wo will do. This Increnso means $50,000 a yonr more expenses to us. Wo nro now paying tho highest prlco that .any other sugar company Is paying for tho same quality of beet. I have nlrcady stated that, If tho farmers will unlto on tho Utah-Idaho company's contract of $5 per Van; I gladly will accept that -contract. I think fully one-half of our farmers aro now raising n 15 per cent beet, and tho vest can do It, If they will uso enro in thinning and irrigating. At nny rate, $4.75 for the quality of beet we aro now gctltng contracts for, Is all wo can stand to pay. Wo have gradually. Increased the price of beets from .$4 to $4.75 per ton, notwlth-Btandlg notwlth-Btandlg tho prlco of sugar has bcon lowored until this season sugar Is soiling for less than It has bcon sold for since wo built tho factory. With theso conditions confronting us, all 1 can sny Is. wo aro dolntr all that we can ,and all that we promised to 'do. If, under theso circumstances farmers refuse to ralso beets sufficient ' to make a. reasonable run, they will slm ply succeed In shutltng down the Ogden Og-den factory, and we will bo compelled to ship to Logan what fow beets wo may get. Our prlco for beets In 1911 is $4.75 per ton flat, or $5 on tho sliding slid-ing scnle, and that this Is final and authoritative .So far as I .am con-corned, con-corned, thero will bo absolutely no further controversy on this quibbling over technicalities. Wo had a plain and squaro understanding between gentlemen, nnd tho responsibility of violating It docs not rest with tho Sugar company." |