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Show Bumper Sugar Run Completed With the dropping of the list batch cf sugar Wednesday, soys the Gunnison Valley New):, thj Gunnison Sugar company comp'.e'.-ed comp'.e'.-ed one cf the largest sugar productions produc-tions and finished one of the most :uccessful campaigns since the plant was openfd seme fourteen years ago. Slicing was completed at the big mill Sunday morning at 5:27 a. m., and Wednesday the last cf the juice was sent through the preen s of sugar making. The exact number of bags produced c. uld not be determined until the finish, but r.fflcials stated that the 1933-34 production pro-duction would fer exceed any other oth-er year in the history of the company's com-pany's operations. Paymen'n for beets, cost of operation op-eration of the mill, payment for labor at the loading stations and the field brought to the valley $750,000. Some 200 men-were steadily stead-ily employed at the mill, while a-bout a-bout 100 were employed at the dumps, and this feature alone, coming at the time it did, was n wonderful gift to the unemployed and materially aided the government govern-ment in its reemployment program. The company, too, conforming to the government NRA ougar code set-up, adhered strictly to the rule and the workmen were held to maximum hours per week. The rule resulted in the expenditure by the company of approximately $20,000. Tho management of the company, compa-ny, living up to old traditions, sent cut the' beet checks far in advance of the time stipulated in. the contracts. con-tracts. Due to the unstabilized prices of sugar at the time of beet payments only $4.50 per ton was paid to the growers. It is believed; however, that with the Increased priec cf sugar, which is sure to come, additional payments will be made, which will carry the price to the $5.00 mark. Hart J. Sanders, superintendent at the factory, and his splendidly organized group of workmen, set a new record at the factory while cutting beets. In previous years an average of 900 tons was regarded as good, but during the late campaign cam-paign the average wah held to 1030 tons per day, with the highest day s cut set at 1,110. With the closing of the mill, Superintendent Sup-erintendent Sanders stated, isome twenty cf the regulars will be started - cleaning- upland - repairing the plant throughout and have it ready for the coming fall campaign. |