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Show HEAVY DROPS IN SUGAR STOCKS. On last Friday, the weekly quotation quota-tion of LTtah securities showed Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company preferred stock selling at ?5.75. This company has assets as-sets totaling $13,000,000 and a surplus sur-plus of $1,786,495, with a bonded indebtedness in-debtedness of only $179,000. The stock should be quoted at $15. but, facing free trade, the assets of $13.-000, $13.-000, OOu dwindle to almost nothing and the only dependable value is in the cash surplus and the profits, if any. from this year's sugar campaign. A year ago Utah-Idaho Sugar stock was selling at $9.75. Then came the tariff legislation and the preliminary steps were taken toward free trade Today the beet sugar Industry is facing fac-ing ruin, and the crisis can be averted avert-ed only by the administration being made to realize the far-reaching, destructive de-structive effects of the promised free trade in sugar. Ogden Is a beet-raising district. In the neighborhood of this city 7400 acres of beets are under cultivation this season. Next year the local factory fac-tory may fail to open, as the sugar from the campaign of 1915 must enter en-ter on a free trade market. Our farmers will face a serious condition when, deprived of a market for their beets, they begin to ask themselves what should be grown in ths large area now devoted to that crop. So the prospects are the farmer will suf fer with the stockholders in tho sugar su-gar companies financial reverses. This is the inflicting of adversity which should be avoided by our government, gov-ernment, if possible. The Industry-should Industry-should be given an opportu- nlty to continue to exist. At least the transition from meet tho change without experiencing experienc-ing a pnnlc rn |