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Show HAS PROSPEROUS YEAR Lehi, Dec. 30 The Lehi sugar factory fac-tory closed its campaign for the season sea-son today when the last bag of sugar beets was sacked and placed In the storehouse. There were 25,713,700 pounds of sugar made, nearly all of which is now stored In the company's big warehouses in Lehi, but a very ilt-tle ilt-tle of it having been shipped, owing to the demoralized condition of the sugar market. The present was the shortest run that the Iehl factory has made in years, partly due to the shipping of 17,000 tons of Lehi beets to the Pay-son Pay-son factory and partly due to the in creased capacity of the Lehi plant During the run 103,782 tons of beets were sliced, making an average of nearly 1500 tons of beetB consumed per day during the eighty days that thG factory was cutting beetB. The extraction of 6Ugar was the lowest in years This was the history his-tory also of other Utah factories and was d..e to the ralnv season of September Sep-tember when the beets should have been ripening. The factory will pursue a policy of retrenehmtnt and fewer men will be kept employed making repairs during the shutdown than ever before In the factory's history Along this same line it la rumored that all the leadin: employers and ofi lals have had a slice taken off their salaries. Besides the sugar made, the company com-pany shipped 2000 tons of refuse molasses mo-lasses to Omaha and Washington State, chiefly to Omaha. This molasses mo-lasses is mixed with alfalfa meal and pressed into cakes, which are fed to j cnttle, horses and dairy cows It is pronounced a most excellent feed for this purpose and the company finds a ready demand fc r it. Contracting will commence in a few days with the farmers for next sea- j son's crop. The terms will be the-! same as last yenr and the prices also will be kept up, averaging $," per ton for all beets going 15 per fent saccharine, with a sliding scale for inferior beetB. |