Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 6 | Serious Sugar Shortage Seen

: iEHlDUSSUGAB 1 rSHOBMSEEN April Allotment Is Already - Given to Dealers, Says y Amalgamated Official Salt Lake jobbers dealing in sugjar held a meeting to go into the matter of; tho available supply of sugar in tho TJtah and Idaho territory between nou iind next October, when tho new beet sugar crop will bo marketable, ttc-.pqrts ttc-.pqrts were mado'that tho state J.- i.:o to face with a serious shortage of. sugar. su-gar. S. ar. Edglll, vice president oC tho Amalgamated Sugar company, said today that "undoubtedly there will 3e a serious shortage. Wo have macl-; macl-; the April allotment to the jobbers, and on May 1 will make nnfVio. out Just exactly how much it will be I I Jrannot say today. "We are idling at ,1.3 cents, and in Chicago spot sjp.ar is bringing 30 cents, and thero is no s double that so'nio disreputable small 1 jobbers and others who arc not ordl- narily sugar dealers at all have got ! Into the game and are trying hard to ' maJio somo easy money at the expenso ) of the public."