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Show FARMERS WREST COMMERCIAL CROWN FROM NEW YORK Much Importance Attached to Closing of Local Refineries througk Arrival of Western Grown Beet Sugar Expert says Home Product Is Reducing Prices. ii .i j ' U N'fvv York. Fb. 10 Recent developments develop-ments in the commercial fields here have 1 not only iurnishfd to New Vork the most striking prool it has ever received of the growing pre-eminence ot western agricultural and industrial power, but .-.re even regarded in some quarters as the first indication of a new commercial era in winch the business supremacy in many fields will be taken from this city to be lodged in the hands of farmers farther west. As the most remarkable proof of the existence of such a condi-tlOO condi-tlOO is cited the recent closing of two of 1 the great sugar refineries here as a direct 1 result of the competition of the beet sug-ar rartones of the interior and the Rocky Mountain region. For the first time in commercial history, heet sugar from Colorado has -old in the New York market in competition with the refiners' output That the Wen should become a com-1 mercial and industrial rival of New York, not only for the markets of the West itself but for the home tcrriton ' &f the seaboard that, in short, the center of power n any of the great industries which now center here should ever be transferred to a younger and more natural region is s new idea in many quarters. Some men of larger vision, however, have forseen the shitting of balance in the sugar inuu.tr Wallace P Willett probably the highest public SUthority on the whole Idling end" of sugar. aid in comme:.':ng upon the arrival of Western beet sugar in New York "The price of sugar just now very-low. very-low. It should not be forgotten that the large Cuban crop of cane sugar which i just now reaching the market hs something to do with that result But the influence of the beet sugar output in keeping down the price of sugar is a fact which is now beyond dispute A little more than a year ago when sugar reached a high wat-r mark of seven ard one-halt cent a pound, the beet sugar crop by its competition directly caused a reduction to the normal leve'. I 'h.u'd say that throughout a good part of last yea- the competition of the western beet sugars kept the general price of granulated granu-lated for the whole United States at least half a cent below svhat it would otherwise have been what it would have been had there been no beet sugar made in the country. For the same reason, i sugar pnees will probably be low throughout the coming year" "The closing down of two refineries in the neighborhood of New Yotk." -aid. another man who DM kepi clooc v,aiOj ... 7! !of the situation, ' mems a great deal more than the reriners would be willing ; to admit. Tltout-'n the !' mih: was only . . temporary it appears from the ad- tmsiions of the president oi the Sugar 1 I Trust that all the refineries must run without profit or even at a loss for , several months if they arc to meet his , competition ami thai they will have to continue to do so lor some tunc at least. Thi sear's home-rown beet sugar crop is large What is even more important to the market, a greater proportion of tt than ever before has been earned over hv the factories to be sold later on. Nearly sixty per cent of the beet sugar is still to be sold 9 "Some of it has already actually come into New York from a point as tar distant as Colorado. It is not likely that more will follow this ear, but if the beet Mir industry grows for ten or fifteen years more as it his been growing since 1900. then the center of gravity of the i sugar trade of the United States utll L lie out around the Great Lakes, and nor (letting land ready for Western Suzar Crop on the Atlantic seaboard as at present. The possibi mch an event would t erni ;.end largely on the con-tideraii con-tideraii in which tin.- beet sugar growers 1 receive at the hands of Congress in the coming tariff session It is a matter of p .cord th.r the sr aboard refiner the so- jjl .ailed tru" a-e in l'jor of a reduction ' which would be sufficient to cripple or mi destroy the sugar bet industry. On the I It o'.her hand this industry has ahov.n such j great gams in the Ins? ten years and its v possibi'itie- .ire now hrng so strikingly Nsl illustrated that will proper encourage-rncnt encourage-rncnt "-till greater expansion seen'.S I assured for the future' i n "It has been proved beyond questiin that n crop of sugar beet increase: the growing iov. er of the Inr I on h:.. h ( ' s Ft a planted 1 from thirty to one hundred per J ' cent Now. wah t(v-grad 'il d-s if. trance Am of the old prejudice of 'hes being hard on the land and with the tarmc-s rapidly M learning the use of ihe beet crop as an H instrument for improving the yield of their land in other crops, wirh proper j encouragement to the beet growing industrv the time v.dl no; be long iri coming, I believe, when the creater part n it not all the sugar ucd in 1 1 : -5 country al jS v i!! he gro.-.n in American sod. bv fln1 fv American farmers, aud manufactured K' I I vj mencan factories The prc-.cn utv- If I tion affords a particularly striking plus- ' J tra of a possible change in the center o commercial dominance as well ac of :! . 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