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Show PRICE OP BEETS FOP, 1818 II I0EP, . DISCUSSION ; SALT LAKE, Dec. 2S.--The probable, price- to be paid for sugar beets in the year 1019 is beginning to be a matter mat-ter of acute concern to beet growers and sugar manufacturers alike. j The manufacturers are noncommit-, tal. They have little to say other than that the advent of peace has complicated compli-cated the situation. Meanwhile, contracts for acreage an due for closing In Ihe. months of January Jan-uary and February, if custom is to be followed. Beets brought ?10 a ton last season. Beet growers were looking forward to : ?12 a ton in Utah and Idaho if the wan had continued through 1919. 1 ' Utah-Idaho Sugar company officials! have refusod to admit that their com-" pany contemplated paying $12 a ton.! This refusal was their answer to a story appearing in a Denver paper to the effect that Mark Austin, general, agriculturalist for the company, had ' said there last week that tho company , had made a tentative announcement in October that il would pay 512 a ton' in 1919. : Ernest R. Woolley, president of the West Cache Sugar company, said yesterday yes-terday thai no one could, predict what the price of sugar beets mav be for' 1919. I "Not alone the sugar market, but the whole financial world, is in a state I of shifting and adjustment to radical i change from conditions that have, pb-i tained for the years of the war," said l Mr. Wolley. "For anyono to say what even a week may bring would be presumptive. pre-sumptive. I would not venture to ox- press an opinion as to the price of, cither sugar or sugar beets within the I next twelve months." . ! j Though reticent as to what his com -; pany might have to pay for sugar; beets,-Mr. Woolley was optimistic asj to a supply for tho West Cache sugar factory- Merrill Nibley and Stephen II. Love I of tho Utah-Idaho. Sugar Company! would not talk for quotation. Nflthoi J I would they comment upon the inter-1 I view reported to have been given out j by Mr. AU3tin lb a Denver paper antlj to the correspo'ndent of The Tribune I except that the interview was not official. of-ficial. ' J The dispatch from Denver and the-Interview the-Interview with Mr. Austin-follows: ! "The Utah -Idaho Sugar company 'expects a large sugar beet acreage I next season, according to Mark Austin, Aus-tin, general agriculturist of the com-I com-I pany. in a statement here, .today. He I believes the growers fully understand changed conditions incident to the 'closing of the war, which' necessitates scaling down prices to at least the 191S level. ' " 'During the month of October; he said, 'the Utah-Idaho Sugar company tentatively announced a" price of 12 a ton for sugar beets for the season 'of 1919. At that time, of course, the end of the war was not yet in sight 1 1 Conditions have been materially altered alter-ed since that time and we shall, ol j course, be unable to pay as high a price as ?12 a ton. Our contract price for 1919 has not yet been definitely decided, but I can say positively that it will not be above the 191S price of ?1U a ton. Our growers arc fully aware of the changed situation and' will, I am sure, contract for a large, acreage next season ' " oo |