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Show BOOTLEG SUGAR TRADE GROWING Tourists Astounded When the Sweet Article Is Sold for 15 Cents in Denver (Bv Mabel Abbot!, N. E A. Staff Cor-reqpondent Cor-reqpondent ) Denver. co!o Aug. . They're bootlegging sugar out of Colorado. Sugar ia 15 cents a. pound here, in the holRht of the canning season. In some states it is anvsvhere from 22 to cents attd you have to bring' severe pressure to bear on the grocer I to get a couple of pounds at thatj lrire The result Is inevitable. Every tourist who passes through Denver and hoar of the IVrcnt sugar, carries nwn) material for an orgy of' fruit canning A trainload of business men came, here recently on a trade excursion from Kansas Cip'. Mo. At home ih- had been trying in vain to pot their i whos enough sugar at f!2 cents to put 1 Up strawberries. When Ihev learned the Honver price they forgot all about business and put in their visM going freni grocery to grocery, buying a dollar's worth at t each place; and. when they wenl , homo with ba?s, suitcases, and pnoUti?' bulging, they looked like n bunch of but of season Sant? Clauses. SPECULATORS 'VuRRY Colorado Is not worrying about the' sugar that Is bootlegged for personal use, however. It produces more beet :uigar than any oilier state In the un- , ion. and lsitor3 cnn help fnemselvcs i to a dollars worth cr so without se- riou-ly depleting 'he supply. But; Ahen ..culator; buy and board until! thoy have a quantity and then take It I out of the stale to sen :.t shortage prices. I hat's a different matter It was to head these peculators fi thai United States Uisiricl Attorney! Harry B Tedrow of Denver, brough' j suit recently und t the osrding clause I of the Lever net, or. the ground that they were buying up more sugar than they could use United States Distrli t Judge Robert j E Lewis, however, 1ms just ruled agmnst him The decision declared that the attempt to keep Colorado sugar sug-ar in Colorado "pros Ircial." This Is only me angle of the Colo ratio sugar situation, which has morj J angles then a piece of rock candy. KEEPING PRICE DOWN The Great Western Sugar company the largest of the Colorado beet si.gar companies, suppl es the north rn part of the state, and it is in tills territon that the 15-cent price rules. In other r.ections It Is higher, though still not ns high as in ion sugar producing, states Credit Is claimed for the Great West ern company by II Mendclson, Its con suiting agriculturist, for keeping down the price atul ftf preventing specula tion 'Sugar stays p.t 15 cents." Mendel-1 n , because we nell at a price thai enables the- retailer to sell at that price We get $12 SO per hundred from the jobber; ihe jobber gets about $111.80 from the grocer anil the grocer gets 116 from the consumer." I nofficial agreements, backed by the fear of not getting sugar from the company, hold 1 rge exports in check, he intimated. "We trv to supply our own territory terri-tory " he snys, "by holding the sugar manufactured In href months so as to sell it over s twelve-month period w 'a .are not hoarding, we want to sell the sugar, but we' do not want to sell it all nt once and let other people get hold of It and tnke It back east and profiteer on it " ANOTHER SIDE STORY. Still another xplana'ion for lEicmt sugar is given by the farmers who grow t he beel l ' The Great Wrrtirn keeps the price down in Its lerrltory. " explains J. H. Golden, secretary of the Mountain states Beel Growers association, "to kerp the farmers from demanding s f. Ir price for thfir beets. It is malt mg many times more than the whole ate "f ( olorado can consume, and is selling ihe balance outside at enor mous prices. "I lata taken from Toor's and Moody a Manuals of Industrials show that the dividends of the Great West ern in 1918 and 1919 totaled 54 per cent in each year, and that the total dividends between 1910 and 1919 have been $50, 760,810. "Al the same lime, farmers have) hern Bteadllj losing money on bee's., to such an extcn' that those who have tried it for a few j ears are putting in other crops and, in order to keep up ihe acreage, the companies are obliged continually to inouc" new f?. rmera to plant beets. If hr price of sugar wen' up in the Great Vestem s terriiorv. h w ould have to n.iy mr re fur beets than It has any idea af doing." no |