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Show ; KI8TED SUGAR ; mm mi : GOOD RECORD Farmers of northern Utah and southern Idaho were enriched in tho sum of approximately $4,180,000 during dur-ing the 1917-1918 sugar beet season. Tho Amalgamated Sugar company on one day, October 15, 1917, paid approximately ap-proximately $2,500,000 to fanners in tho districts tributary to its eight sugar plants. Most of the beets paid for by this tremendous sum of money were delivered to the factories during October and November. These figures, recorded for 1917 and the tip of 1918, it is expected will be exceeded to a considerable extent by those of the 191S-1919 season for plans calling for the most extensive planting campaign in the history of the company have been laid. The Amalgamated Sugar company is now operating eight plants. Thoy are located at Ogden. Brigham City, Logan, Lo-gan, Lowiston, Smithfield, Utah; and Twin Falls, Burloy and Paul, Idaho. Tho Brigham City plant was operated a year ago by the Utah -Idaho sugar company but later acquired by the Amalgamated Sugar company. Tho plants at Smithfleld and Paul were constructed during 1917 and operated for the first time in that year. Heavy Producers. Tho location of throe factories in Cache valley has mado that district the heaviest producer of sugar beets with Ogden keeping it a close second. The Brigham district, supplying only one plant of -smaller capacity, has not shown tho proportionate yield of the other four "Utah factories, but about the same as that of the Paul district. The Twin Falls and Burlcy factories aro both larger. The average' extraction of sugar last year was about 12 per cent, which Is considered n fair Utah average. This moans that the company will have over a million bags of sugar for shipment, ship-ment, most of which will go to eastern states. 1 In this connection the shipments of tho Amalgamated company are of much interest, for it was the product of the western beet sugar factories that kept most of America from having hav-ing a s.ugar famine during tho autumn au-tumn months, when little sugar could be secured in the east, and thc only supply was that rushed from western stales to eastern centers. Kept Price Down. Despite this scarcity of sugar, the beet sugar men of the United States patriotically agreed to keep the salo price of sugar at a low level, so that despite near-famine conditions there were not near-famine prices. Early operation of tho Amalgamated plants last season permitted of very heavy shipments being made, trainloads being be-ing rushed eastward at the request of tho United States food administration. Not only has the Amalgamated company purchased one factory and built two more during tho year, but improvements have been made. In connection with the Ogden plant a very large addition was built to handle han-dle the Steffens process for utilizing the by-products of the regular sugar factqry. Similar improvements of lesser les-ser scale were made at other factories. Other Factories. Ogden capitalists interested in tho Amalgamated company aro also heavily heav-ily Interested now In two other sugar companies the Wyoming Sugar company, com-pany, with its plant at Worland, built this year, and the Pacific Sugar corporation, cor-poration, which has a plant at Tracy, California. The same Interestts will bo henvy stockholders In the new sugar company which is to build a sugar factory fac-tory at Whitehall. Jefferson county, Montana, during the year. Thc government calls for increased production of beet sugar for the coming com-ing year have caused the Amalgamated Amalgam-ated Sugar company to make plans for even greater campaigns in 191S than ever before. Farmers of the districts dis-tricts surrounding the sugar factories fac-tories aro being urged not only to increase in-crease their acreage for the "coming year, but to select such acreage as will produce the maximum tonnage. |