Show p UTAH iI WEEKLY EE LY INDUSTRIAL IN James H H. H Jones Jone beet specialist for forthe forthe i the tho U. U S. S Department of Agriculture estimated that the market value of ot sugar output of Utah and Idaho for this year ear will amount to nearly 6 It is stated that Utah alone will produce enough sugar to supply soldiers In iii Franco France as well as its own owin population The gathering of ot sugar beet seed in Utah has commenced About acres of beet seed eed were planted by bythe bythe bythe the sugar companies and a good crop cropis crops is s expected Construction of oC Deseret mountain wing of Salt Lake Fillmore Kanosh Kanosh Kan- Kan osh railroad from Lynndyl to Deseret mount mountain in at least and probably ly on to Death Canyon ten miles west of Deseret Deseret Deseret Des Des- eret mountain will greatly stimulate stimulate stimulate late development of great properties lying in Tooele county It Helped the Enem Enemy Now it appears there is a world shortage of sugar made more acute by lack of f shipping facilities Vessels Vessels Vessels Ves Ves- sels cannot be spared to Journey around the world to the Far East They are arc required too greatly In the trans-Atlantic trans travel As it has been wheat so must it now b ba be with sugar Consumption must be reduced The surplus built built up from such reduced consumption must go to meet the needs of ot the armies in the fiel field and the nations that with us fight the fight Could any better argument than this be used to show the necessity for encouragement of the western beet sugar Industry Or could any stronger argument be produced to show that every person who discouraged sugar beet planting last spring ostensibly for the purpose of oC forcing higher beet prices played directly into the hand of our enemy Let us not havo have a repetition of this experience The Tho west could produce double an and treble tho sugar it now does if H the tho public would fully awake to the Importance of this industry Now is the time for Cor every state in conjunction with the national government to formulate plans which will encourage the beet grower and manufacturer to double production as a war measure and firmly establish and protect this in industry industry industry in- in as a peace measure |