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Show G. E. Sanders, Former President Presi-dent of Utah-Idaho Co. Testifies Tes-tifies at Hearing. SALT LAKE. April 27. Terms of the sale of the Oregon-Utah Sugar company to the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the manner in which the sale was made was included in testimony testi-mony yesterday in the hearing of the complaint of the federal trade comniis-j siou against the Utah-Idaho company,' The Amalgamated Sugar company Ernest R. Woolley, A. P. Cooper, E. F. Cullen. The testimony was offered by George E. Sanders, former president presi-dent of the Utah-Oregon company.. Mr. Sanders related how tho affairs of the company had been conducted ! from the beginning of the promotion,! in which tho presiding bishop, C. W. I Nibley. and he had been associated ; until "the time. May, 191G. when Bishop ! Nibley swung the sale of tho Oregon-Utah Oregon-Utah to the Utah-Idaho. The witness related in considerable detail the affairs of the Oregon-Utah, telling how the company had secured contracts for 5000 acres of beets in the vicinity of Grant's Pass, Ore., where the factory was built; how the financing finan-cing had been completed, and of the propects for tho future which the company had at the time Bishop Nibley Nib-ley was alleged to have forced the sale to .the Utah-Idaho. j Proofs of Sale. j Henry "Ward Beer, special attorney i for he federal trade commission, who, is conducting the case for the govern-; Iment,. questioned I he .Witness at length concerning the sale transution, bring-j ing ot that the Oregon-Utah had III-! tended to engage in interstate com- J merce; lhat Bishop Nibley had stated that he controlled the Utah-Idaho com- pany, and lhat through the purchase! by the Utah-Idaho company of the Oregon-Utah company Bishop Nibley and his sou, Aleck Nibley, got $10,000 to $50,000 of the Utah-Idaho money; while thoy retained control of the' O ergon-Utah. ' j When the witness was telling of the! extensive plans for the development! of the beet sugar industry in Oregon through the erection of several fac-! torles and In additions to the plant) then in process of construction all Grant's Pass. Judge D. N. Slraup, coun- sel for the Utah-Idaho, entered strenuous strenu-ous protests. To this Mr. Beer replied that it was desired to show how bright the prospects for tho Oregon-Utah were before the "crash" came. Mr, Sanders testified that the company, com-pany, with Bishop NIbley's consent, had considered the probability of j building factories at Medford, Sutherland Suther-land and other Oregon points, and that a few days before Bishop Nibley announced his intention of selling the Oregon-Utah to the Utah-Idaho an account ac-count of the-projected factories had been published in a Salt Yalce news-j paper. In relating various conversations! with Aleck Nibley, then assistant manager of the Oregon-Utah, Mr.' Sanders quoted him as having wanted! to get a commission o,n purchases made by the company and of Justify-; ing such a desiro by stating that his! father, C. W. Nibley, got 25,000 on every contract made for the construction construc-tion of a factory for his companies by j company had contracted to build the plant at Grant's Pass. oo I |