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Show BEET DAY IN OGDEN. The first pay-day of tho Amalgamated Sugar company for this season was on Oct. 15, and the next will be on the fifteenth of this month two weeks from today when $175,000 will be distributed to the farmers of this district. This will be the largest distribution of the campaign, as the beets are nearly all delivered, the soason being two weeks earlier than last year. The sugar industry is of vast benefit to Ogden and neighborhood. neighbor-hood. It gives to the farmers a cash crop, causing the circulating of large sums of money, while retaining at home thousands of dollars which, prior to the building of the sugar factory, were sent away for sugar; furthermore, it gives to our farmers valuable lessons in intensive in-tensive farming. There are some signs of the breaking up of the sugar trust,' that powerful organisation which has extended a protecting hand to the beet sugar industry. When the trust withdraws from the field, then our farmers will be forced to demand for the industry a continuation of the protection and safe-guarding which has fostered the industry and made possible its growth in the intermountain country. Up to the present the general condition of the sugar trade has been no concern of the beet grower, who has received a fixed price for his saccharine tubers and has trusted to the big interests to make sugar-making sugar-making a profitable business, but if the trust disintegrates there will come a great change and the ups and downs of the business undoubt edly will affect the man at the plow as well as the competing units of the disorganized sugar business. We note that of late sugar has been dropping and has reached a lower figure than in years. This drop is attributed to the heavy importations of German beet sugar. Were there no concerted efforts on the part of the American sugar producers to resist this encroachment encroach-ment and no strong central organization to beat back the foreign invaders in-vaders of the home market, a demoralized market would be created in a very short time and eventually the beet sugar industry in America Amer-ica would be seriously menaced. The consumers, it might be said, would reap the benefit of low-priced low-priced sugar, and that would be true, but the consumers would benefit bene-fit at the expense of one of the most substantial industries in this region and to the injury of farmers, merchants and the people as a whole in Weber county and other beet sugar districts in Utah. |