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Show -f SUGAR FACTORY AT LEHI CLOSED i MEN STRIKE i l Shut down for tho first season In ' thirty years, the Lohl factory of the- j Utah-Idaho Sugar company will He ldlo this fall, according to corapany ' officials. This factory, Utah's first sugar mill and ono of tho first suc- , ccssfully operated plants In this coun J try, will be closed indefinitely. It Is said. Hour and wage demands mado i by striking employes and claimed by tho company to be beyond Its ability to meet led to the closing of tho plant. All beets from this district will bo shipped to other factories for milling, It was nnnounced. Suspension Sus-pension of operations was definitely ordered this morning when the 250 : Htrlkers failed to return within tho v tlmo stipulated by tho company. J. II. Gardner, general construc tion engineer for tho sugar company and long Identified with tho sugar Industry In this state, was at tho Lchl plant when It was ordered clos-i clos-i ed. "This will be the first season since 1891 when the Lohl factory has not ground sugar beets," he said, i "It was ono of the very first suc cessfully operated plants In this country, nnd Its annual sugar run , was a big asset to tho community. |