Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 1 | Danger to Sugar Industry

DANGER TO SUGAR INDUSTRY washington feb 12 hayward leavitt Lc avitt of omaha neb who nho Is Jar largely gely eri in nebraska sugar factories today today declared before the senate committee on the phil Ip pines that tho the pending tariff bill with the islands was a knife in tho the vitals of tho reclamation service and the development of the west ho said that tho the government has estimated that it t will cost 35 an acre to irrigate largo tracts of land in order to support sport that value intensified tanning will bo necessary and this could be accomplished lie he insisted only by using tho the sugar boet be et as a rotary crop lie he believed that sugar production in the philippines would in increase creaso in two or three year sif the tariff bill passes sufficiently to destroy the market for american ugar sugar which costs so much more to produce pio duce 1 l 4 ll 11 4 K 1 l 1 I