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Show 'SUGAR BET INDUSTRY OF-OGDEN QUESTION OF DOUBLING CAPAC-ITY CAPAC-ITY OF LOCAL FACTORY. All Depends on the Attitude of Beet Growers Demand is Made for Certain Concessions. The farmers of Hooper met the first of the week and organized a Beet Growers' union, und. In the name of tho union, asked for letter railroad facilities for transportntlng the bets, also tluit they hi given tin factory scale for bee's deli voted on the cars at Hooper. The fanners base their demands on the higher price which they claim Is beiiiK j.nld for sugar. To this the sugar people have replied that sugar today is selling for less than It was leu years ago. Tito second year the Ogdeu factory was operated, the wholesale price received for the first million pounds of sugar was $7 a hundred pounds. Sugar Is now wholesaling whole-saling at JJ.ij.'s per hundred pounds. It is understood that many of the farmers have av ready signed the old contracts for beets and this Is taken lo Indicate a desire among n ma- Jorlry to continue the present harmonious har-monious relations with the sugar people peo-ple aucl to Iguore any agitation which nilfibt subject the beet Industry to any serious set buck or bring on dls couraglng uncertainties. The Amalgamated Sugar company Is to double the capnrlty of its Og den factory tbls year, if there is a complete understanding reached with all the farmers within the next few-weeks, few-weeks, but if an Irreconcilable difference differ-ence should develop during that period peri-od then the orders for machinery will be cancelled, and the beet acreage, necessarily, will be reduced to the limited capacity of the present plant at this poInL The consensus of opinion Is that the best of feeling will continue to prevail and that ihe sugar beet Industry In-dustry in the gden district will go on o-s at present, expanding and spreading prosperity. |