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Show oo STARTING A BEET SUGAR PLANT IN SALT LAKE. Here is a genuine surprise in industrial in-dustrial enterprise: "J W. McHenry. president of the United Commercial clubs of Salt Lake county has called a mass meeting meet-ing of the citizens of Salt Lake county to be held at West Jordan Tuesday to discuss the proposed sugar factory for Salt Lake county. A special committee com-mittee appointed at the meeting at Riverton Tuesday to procure data on the erection of a sugar factory will report at this meoting. The proposition proposi-tion to build a sugar factory in the sugar beet district of the county was laid before the new industries com- n ittee of the Commercial club yesterday yes-terday and received it indorsement Mr. McHenry said to the committee that the sugar factory ws only a forerunner for further industrial development de-velopment In the count) and would nld to a great, extent in making Stilt Lake a live stock center as a drying plant rlno would be constructed to convert tho beet pulp into e:ittle feed, now being Imported from California at a high cost " Local sugar manufacturers declare the beet sugar outlook is not bright, that a crisis !s coming and, if there is not a modification Of the tariff reg ulatlrns which call for free trade, the plants In northern Utah must close. In the face of this discouraging prediction, pre-diction, our ruiRhbors at the capital are proceeding to orsr.nize a company com-pany made up of farmers and others on stockholders, which plans to build p new beot sugar factory We would be pleased to get the Salt i ako point ot View on this proposed enterprise and to obtain a better idea of why they refuse to accept the prevailing idea that at present the beet suar Industry is in n precarious position. |