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Show I SUGAR MEN ARE FACING WORRIES Those well Informed on the su;nr industry state that the Utah Idaho I lugar rnmpany has 1,400,000 bago of sugar on which the companj ii fat ins h loss of $20 a bus. The Amalfa mated Sugar company has l.ui in, bags which may bring a correspond ins loss. Unless there is a sudden reversal in i he .sugar market, those big concerns j whicii djatribated millions or dollari , a( n time? when bankruptcy was grip- j . ping a big part of tiii business inter-tats inter-tats of the Intcimuumain comttrj . ill be in serious financial Blraits. It has been suggested th;;t whh the H absorbing of a surplus sugar from Java, the market in the I mini Staler H i would advance, but sugar men claim H there has been more sugar produced H , in the western hemisphere than l- r J is consuming power and unles H is shipped lo Europe la an ami J ,; care for the surplus, sugar prices will H be too low to allow the Amalgamated H 'or Utah-Idaho to escape a lieay fi H This is a crisis in I lie sugar indus-H indus-H I try which could not be lnrcseen six H months ago. There Is no business in all tin H which has conferred more benefits on I the communities in which ii is con- ducted than that of the beet sugar in- j dustry. Regularly, each fall and win lei, ii has brought a cash return to! the farmer and has distributed millions mil-lions of dollars of new money. Ai Iceived as big a reward as ho was entitled en-titled to, but he has fared better than the grain producers who had to enter the open market to obtain their reward, re-ward, or the hay raiser whone uncertainties uncer-tainties were endless When the sugar producer is on the top wave of prosperity, we all are disposed dis-posed to oriticse by saying his profits ' tire too large, but too often our vision is at fault and we fail to see the year-of year-of adversity. It would be a source of regret, if the sugar industry in the west w re tg be crippled by an exlarr.rdinary : -lump. |