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Show BEET CONTRACTS TO BE CHANGED Sliding Scale is to be Put Into Effect at the Ogden Factory, Com-niencing Com-niencing with 1912 David Eccles Says the Present Contracts Are Unfiir to the Capable Farmers. t beet growers and our company, and it is difficult to believe that thoso g nllemen should refuse to carry out their end of It At ieast not until I have it from them personally, shall I regard It as authentic. Sliding Scale. "So far as the lumored contract vith the Garland people is concerned, by which they agree to puy $3 00 per I ton for beets carrying 1j per cent sugar, ami $5 7c for those carrying 14 per cent, $4 CO for those carrying 13 per cent and ?4.25 for those carrying carry-ing 12 per cent. I -want to say that I am perfectly willing and axnlous to enter Into that contract. Indeed, our company has now come to the conclusion conclu-sion that we must have a beet containing con-taining a better sugar contents than In tho past, and while, of course, for this year we are bound by the contract con-tract 1 made with the beet growers in March, aud chall therefore carry It cut. yet, commencing with 1912. we shall insist upon tbe same contract as the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, namely, name-ly, tbe sliding scale for which con-tiGcts con-tiGcts we will pay $3 00 per ton at all of our factories. That Is the only honest hon-est and proper thing, because It ghen the best price to the man who will work for It, and j.roduee the best ' bec-t. It Is not fair that the indifferent indiffer-ent farmer, who only produces a very lew class beet, should have as much money as the diligent farmer who produces a good beet, and hereafter, commencing with 1912. we nhall work -towards the same equitable end of having nothing but sliding scalo contracts con-tracts Of course, as I said before, during the' present year, I shall bo perfectly willing to concede to the beet growers the right to have the flat rato contract on the $4.75 basis, as agreed upon between us In March. Denies a Report. "I also note that the Saturday morning Tribune prints an article, giving giv-ing Us version of the grievances of tho beet growers, and it Is so full of errors that I thought attention sbould bo called to it. It Is not true, as they state, that at any time any person for, and on behalf of, our company com-pany ngroed to pay $5 00 per ton for boots; It is not true, as they state, that tho Mormon church, either dl-lectly dl-lectly or Indirectly, ur any officer acting act-ing for the Mormon church, had any band In the settlement of that question; ques-tion; and It is not true, as they 6tate, that there was any written or other agreement by which an increase to $5.00 per ton was promised at any tune. Just how the Tribune secured the Information 1 do not know, but o.ch and all of these fact3 would have been capable of ascertainment by Inquiry In-quiry at the office of the Amalgamated Sugar company." In tck :d to the recent agiutlon for an increase of price on beets, David Da-vid Eccie3, president of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company, was seen by a Standard reporter, and lu answering the question as to whether he had been approached concerning the demands de-mands of the farmers, said: "No, no one has spoken to me con-corning con-corning ony difference, and all that I know about It Is what I have seen in tho public press, and 1 can hard ly believe that there Is any very authenticated au-thenticated movement on fool to avoid the contract which was entered enter-ed Into eolomnlv between the bcot growers and myself last March On March 26 a meeting was held at the county court house in Ogden, and during the meeting I was requested by ono of their representatives to give a personal guaranty that the price would bo $4.75 per ton f. o. b. factory for 1911, and I gave them tha following signed letter: Exchange of Letters. " 'Answering your question as to whether I shall be able to arrange matters with my companies and directors, direc-tors, as to the increase in price on boets for the year 1911, I desire to say that if I fall with them I will personally per-sonally guarantee to pay to each beet grower the additional 25 cents over and above tho present price, making a total price of $4.75 per ton f. o. b. factory.' "This seemed to satisfy the farmers, farm-ers, because on the same day they presented the following written and signed document at the oClce of tho Amalgamated Sugar company. "'March 2fi, 1910. Amalgamated I Sugar Company, Ogden, Utah ; Dear Sirs This wiil Inform you of the decision of the meeting of the representatives repre-sentatives of the beet growers of Weber county, held in the county court house today. They unanimously unanimous-ly approved of the report of their committee in regard to the last interview inter-view with Mr. D. Eccles, and on motion mo-tion of Mr. Levi J. Taylor, seconded by Mr. John Maw, that the beet growers grow-ers proceed to raise beets at tho present pres-ent rate of 4 50 per ton, with the guarantee of improvements in regard to the unloading of 1-eets, and also the promise of the 25 cents per ton raise for 1911. '"The vote stood as follows: 74 for and 9 against. " it was moved to make it unanimous. unani-mous. Yours truly, J. L. Robson, F. M. Bwlnap, Albert Green, J. A. Fife. F. II. Wright Secretary.' Sestion cf Good Faith. ... . of this contract, of course, the beet growers would have been Justified Jus-tified In charging i;s with bad faith If we had failed to live up to tbe contract con-tract of paying the stipulated price for the beets. I have, therefore, had contracts for 1911 printed, and they are now distributed, bated around the county, 'carrying the terms agreed upon between the |