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Show IilUEME II SM CASE1 I Uleged Efforts of the Utah- I Idaho Interfering With I Gunnison Project Told I SALT .LAKE. April 2 J. Alleged ef- II brts of the officials of the Utah-Idaho I tngar company 10 interfere with the lunnison Valley Sugar company and I he resumption of evidence about the1 I iregon-Utah Sugar company, were the I oatures vestorday In. the hearing or I he complaint of the federal trade com- I niKsion again&t iho Utah-Idaho com- I )anv, the Amalgamated Sugar com- I tany, Ernest R. Woolley, A. J. Cooper, I uid K. F. Cullen, charged vith con- 1 .piracy in restraint of competition m I nterstate commerce. I Farmer Testifies. I Testimonv was ottered by Calbert Ir M Ivie. a farmer and former bishop 1 Lt Aurora, and William Gardner ot I Ivenice. a farmer, who told about their I knowledge of the Gunnison Valley I companv and alleged efforts made to I hinder its operation. Conversations I with Robert D. Young, president of the I Sevier stake were related by Mr. Ivie. I in which Mr. Young is alleged to have I slated that the Gunnison Valley was I a precarious enterprise, that the nia- I chincrv was second-hand, and that it I as doubtful If it could make sugar. . I Mr. hie stated that the general im- I pression In the district had been given I that the Gunnison company did not I have sufficient funds to finance itself, I that the machinery was inadequate I'.' Mr. Young is a cattle bu;.or for tho I" Utah-Idaho and Mr. Ivie helped the ! Gunnison company to suciire beet con- liacts. kj Mr Gardner testified that Tele, K "Sugar Beet" Hansen, a field man for F the Utah-Idaho company, said the Gunnison Gun-nison company could necr make siig- ar and bet a hat on the ciursiion with 'i a representative of the Cunmson. Mr, Young stated aside yesterday that Mr. j Hansen paid the bet. Mo Objection. Samuel Stark or Salt Lake, testified 1 concerning a visit he made with Geo. Drowning of Ogden, to the late Presi- i dent Joseph R Smith, or the L. D. S. 1 church to get lh c ' permission'' of I President Smith, .then president of the Utah-Idaho to proceed with the eon- I struclion of a proposed independent factory at Moroni, vliich became tlic Poople's Sugar company. Mr. Stark i quoted President Smith as saying that I life had no objections, but roterred Mr. I Stark and Mr Bvuv.ning to other ot- 1 licials of the company. I They say the late Richard W. Young, I he could not talk for the company, he II was sure that they would get little on-, If couragemcnt for their undertaking.! U1 Later Mr. Stark saw T. R. Cutler, then I general manager ot the Utah-Idaho i I Advice Ignored. I I Mr. Cutler v.-as quoted by the wit-; I ness as stataing that the Sanpete I count farmers were not adapted to I beet "raising r.nd that they preferred I to "farm on horseback," Mr. Stark I said that he asked Mr. Cutler's opin I ibn believing that he knew more abou; r tho sugar industry than any other mail; ' In Utah or Idaho. Mr. Cutler's advice . was not a deterrent, Mr. Stark said,! and the factory was completed and has been operated. Mr. Stark likewise told of a convcr- sation he held two months ago with f Merrill Nibley, assistant general man- agcr and vice president of tho Utah- p Idaho company. At this time, so Mr. f. Stark testified, he presented to Mr. P Nibley a proposition for building a 3 factory at Taylorsville, and asked Mr, U The Utdh-lduho executive told Mr. Stark, according to tho" testimony that ; the promoters were destined to lose a lot of money, and stated that the Utah- : Idaho factory at West Jordan was able ; to take care of all the sugar beets raised In Salt Lake county. Mr. Nibley. was said to have asked Mr. Stark fur-! ther how he, Mr. Stark, expected to! l: raise the necessary capitnl when thej I stock of the People's Sugar company; i v,as selling at ?G instead of the $10 J par value, |