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Show EXPLANATION BY Hl Ogdon, January 2S, 1011. H As tho officers of tbe Amalgamated H Sugar company scorn to havo tbe un- Hl doratandlng that as a result of tho Hj meeting of beet-growers held in tho H ' county courthouse Mnrch 2G, 1910, Uie Hl farmers were thereby bound to nccc.pt H tho offer raado by the sugar company H J of $4.75 per ton for sugar beets grown H ia 1911, we desire to make the follow- H ' Ing explanation: HJ When this proposition of promising H , to grow beets for $4.75 per ton for H the season of 1911 was presented at' H that meeting shouts of "No! no!" H wero hoard from different parts of, the Hl room and that wag taken as n sot- H Uemcnt of that part of the question; H and I (F. H. "Wright) as secretary of Hj the committco and the one who wrote H tho article which was signed by tho H committee and taken to the sugar H company and which was intended only H to convey to them Uio conclusions of Hj this meeting, did not understand that sold article was to, or did, In any nay hind tho farmers to accopt the i offer of $4.75 per ton for 1911. i It appenrs that the article rofcrrod ' to aud signed by tho committee was read by tho secretary and listened i to by one other than tho secretary, namely Albert Green. The remain-1 ing members of tho committee did not hear tho nrtlclo rend, and in the hurry , to got started homo, as it was getting . late, tho other committee members signed without knowing tho contents of tho article. As secretary and committco members, mem-bers, wo deslro to make tho above explanation ex-planation through your valuable paper, pa-per, thanking you for past courtesies and also for the publishing of this statement. Respectfully, J. L. ROBSON, J. A. FTFE. F. H. WRIGHT, F. M. BELNAP, ALBERT GREEN. |