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Show GI i SUGAR OUTPUT IS SEEN I Besides the Amalgamatsd Swgar H oontpagej and the Utah -Idaho Sugar H company there .ue m sugar compan Its operating factorlen in Utah and- H .Idaho It IS estimated that the pro- ! ductlon from these factories for the H s-asoii Hill be- about T3S,Q0Q bags of 100 pounds each, s ver large H Increase over the production of 28o.- H i ooo Lugs last year from the same H I The remarkable advance is ascribe.) H to Increased acreage. peclall fgvor H able climatic conditions for growth H ;and a marked increase in saccharine H iun. in iuk mat iti ions m eels will yield one ton of sugar, this aould make the beet tonnage for the independent factories. II, IT! tons, a- ompared with 14.000 tons for the P' H .-ding season One of these com- H panles. the Gunnison valley, has H passed into control ot the Wrlglcy chewing gum Interest. It Ik of special Interest to note alap H that the People ' Sugar company of Moroni, is operated by electricity. H claimed to be the only factory of lh' H kind thuj operated. I he prices paid to the producer ll H a minimum of $12 ."o per ton of bsetS 'ae, on returns for I ctober. Novem- ber. December and January. If the H celling price in those months rises H above $13. the price paid Is $1 higher It Is considered doubtful. If the farmu will receive over $12. 50 this year, be- H eause of the low range of prices, which has reached down to $S 90 as the baste H price in San Francisco. It has been H stated that the cost of production last year was J9 44 per hag. and this vear will be $1 more. 1 Ai date of writing the figures cov - H ering thi output for the current sea-soln sea-soln by the six Independent companies can only be estimated They are as H Sprmgville-Mapleton Co., of Sprlngvllle. 135.000 sacks; lust H season 65.000 sacks: People's Co.. of Moroni, 90.0OO sacks: last year, 36,000 sacks: Gunnison Valley Co., at Gunnl-son, Gunnl-son, 110 000 sacks, last year, 23,500 H sacks Hooper Co., at Hooper, now the H Inter-state Sugar Co., 120,000 sacks, H last year, 25,000 aai lis; Dayton Co.. I sacks; last vear, 1 10.000 sacks, !H Beet Sugar Co.. Rigby. Ida. 90,000 Sticky; last year, 20.000 sacks. The beet tonnage can not be given H exactly at date of writing, hut by fig- H luring 2J lo 1 VVeiKhts Of beets I" J I sugar, as indicated above, the probable H consumption of beets to each factory I may come reasonably near. |