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Show NOT TO REPORT i I No Request Received by Local j Sugar Company From j Washington 1 Reports in Ogden that the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company had been requested re-quested by telegram to send a detailed i account ot its sales during the past fourteen months to Washington arc incorreot. "The ordinary and regular I report of the federal trade commis- sion nich is exacted of all producers and Jobbers -was sent out in the early part or February" said officials of the company this morning. Tho Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. of Salt Lake, however, did receive such a telegram tele-gram and has complied with its demands de-mands from which tho following facts are made public: Sugar on hand March 1, 1919. 9?f4fi8 bags; output crop year 1919-20, 1,339,-031 1,339,-031 bags; total, 2,326,499 bags sold during fiscal year 1919-20, W.SZi bags at an average price of $9.60 per hundred pounds. On hand and in transit to eastern markets May 1 1920. when price was advanced to the lowest prevailing market mar-ket for cane sugar. 303.818 bags. Ac- cording to an official of the company, even though this amount of sugar , should be sold at the recent advanced price of 532.75. San Francisco base, it would bring the average up to only Sll 82 per bag for all sugar sold by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company dining the past fourteen months, or 18 cents per bag Icbs than the government allowed al-lowed Michigan producers and ?6.1S per bag lower than the department of justice stipulated as a reasonable price for Louisiana sugar nn |