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Show Sugar Making Is Utah's Greatest Industry; " Eighteen Gigantic Factories Are Operated m I QUO A R making ts the gr n in- J ufn turlng Indu i o Uto h. Eighteen gigantic plants In this state and others in the west are owned, controlled con-trolled and operated by I'lah companies. com-panies. Upon their success depends not onlv the prosperity of those directly direct-ly connected with the companies, but ithe farmers, the retailers, the bankers bank-ers and practically all others of the in-'termountain in-'termountain plates. Of these eighteen plants in Utah, the Utah-Idaho Sugar company owns j eight, the Amalgamated five and one each belong to the l,it-n. Sprlmxville-lllaplcton, Sprlmxville-lllaplcton, Gunnison, copies and Interstate In-terstate sugar companies. Most of these factories are In northern l'tah. those of Ugden and Hooper being in Weber county. In Box Elder county there are plants at Brlgham and Garland. Gar-land. Davis county has one plant, at Iayton. Four factories are operated oper-ated In Cttchi- county, these being at Logan, Lcwlston, Ornish and near Smlthfield. Salt Lake county has two plr.nts. several are in Utah county with four inthe southern part of the state those at Delta. Gunnison. Moroni and Elsinore. These eighteen mills have a combined com-bined dally cutting capacity of approximately ap-proximately 15,000 tons of beets. WHAT FACTORIES MEAN. A factory run of 100 days is considered con-sidered a satisfactory campaign. If all our T'tah mills therefore were to be supplied with beets for a 100-day run .the farmers of the state would have ot supply 1.500,000 tons of sugar beets. Based on tonnage yield per acre of last year s sugar beet crop, which government statisticians calculated calcu-lated to be 11.20 tons per acre and which, by the way. was the highest tonnage of any state in the union, 134.000 acres of beets would have to 'be harvested. This figure Is not impossible of attainment, at-tainment, nor even Improbable. Last year's acreage in Utah planted to sugar su-gar beets was 112.667. An additional iacreage then of only about 21,500 would provide Utah's sugar mills with j the beets necessary for a full capacity i campaign. The Utah sugar factories from 1.-'600,000 1.-'600,000 tons of beets could manufacture manufac-ture close to 400, 000. 000 pounds' of Fugar. At 6 cents a pound this would amount to $24,000,000. The greater part of this amount Is brought to this community from sugar sold In the east. Is distributed here for labor Cor beets and general supplies. BIG AREA MLABUB'. There are thousands of acres avail- Iable and suitable tor sugar beet cultivation cul-tivation In Utah that have never yet been planted to beets Fanners, however, how-ever, are now aware of the benefits to : the soil of sugar beets in a crop rotation rota-tion and It is expected that ery soon part of every one of I'tah's farms, trl-butary trl-butary to sugar factories, will produce i Its quota of L'tah s "mortgage lifting" crop of sugar beets. Farmers and bankers understand ! possibly better than any other class i the real value of the beet sugar In- j dustry. Whenever u sugar factory is reeled land values more than double; The byproducts of the industry uro also used to great advantage Beet topi and the pulp are particularly' fine feed for cattle and sheep, either fresh, dry-or sis silage. Dried beet julp produced by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Su-gar company at iu West Jordan mill is a favorite feed amons dairymen for their cows They claim that In B mixed diet a certain proportion of dried beet pulp accomplished results obtained through no other feed, and also that the production of milk is materially ma-terially increased. Sugar beet molasses, another byproduct by-product of the sugar industry, Is also valued as cattle feed, especially for fattening and Is fed by mixing with! hay. pulp. etc. By utilizing these byproducts by-products In feeding livestock, the grower may receive a considerable profit other than obtained from the sale of the beets themselves Furthermore, Further-more, by plowing under the green beet tops as fertilizer, the land is kept 'In good condition as a large part of the fertility removed by the crop la returned to the soil. SURE MOM Y IX TALI,. In the fall of each year business generally has come to look to the su-igar su-igar beet money for relief. A year ago the Utah-Idaho Sugar company alone i paid out $16.000 000 for beets, labor and supplies for a three months cam-j cam-j palgn In L9l, the amount was not I so large because the price of beets was lower, but calculated on the tonnage, ton-nage, stated above as required to give all of Utah's factories a capacity run that is, 1,500.000 tons and at the present price prevailing in l'tah. which is E B0 per t.,n. the amount paid for beets alono would be IS -I 250,000. I If it were possible to follow every dollar of such a largo sum of money j which the farmers would receive ev-I ev-I cry year and trace the uses to whkh I it would be put as It circulated from I former to the various people with ! whom he does business and fremi them I In turn to all other business Interests, It could be more fully realized what n great relief would be afforded each I year, Every effort should be made to kep i in sugar mills ..t the state go-I go-I Ing full blast. It means much to ev- rj r -.Id. ,-,t a in! mo. ii,, ii .; trUmtion among the farmers for beets and among business men and other industrial in-dustrial enterprises for supplies, i ( IMAJi l ! S SUFFER The year Just passed has been disastrous dis-astrous for a considerable number or sugar companies. Many are In the hands of bankers' Committees and hankers' committees and bankers can tell you of their serious financial condition con-dition Had It not been for the action of the government In prolding money to assist the beet si.rrar people, some factories would have been unable to! begin operations last ctober. Mbtion by congress on the pending tariff bill should provide ample tariff on foreign sugar. Any other action would lnlte further disaster to the domestic Industry It should be kept In mind that free sugar does not mean cheap sugar. A large percentage of I the foreign gros n cans sugar refined in the United States Is sold In this country. The beet sugar industry here Ik nf value to the refiners as well as to all consumers of sugar for it acts as a price stabilizer, and If anything should occur to put It out of business, busi-ness, this country would be at the Complete mercy of foreigners nnd I would soon be paying anv price they demanded for their sugar. But It is not anticipated that any such thing will occur. The Industry has survived a very depressing year and Immense losses hae been sustained. sus-tained. The prospect is brighter for L8S2, The sugar c rop of 1921-192-has hern produced at a lower cost than that of a year ago. Adjustments of (affairs generally have advanced very considerably and everyone has tried t,t "swallow" his losses As far as sugar ! is concerned, present indications point, to a revival in the Industry by the tend of this year, and experts are prc-' prc-' dieting 8 sugar shortage In 1923 |