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Show JNumoer 44 Opening Beet SugarCampaign For This Year Swinging into action this week, well over one hunderd fifty thousand thou-sand farmers, agricultural workers, work-ers, and factory employees in nine Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states will launch a fall and winter campaign to replenish America's greatly reduced sugar reserves. Including California actories which have been in operation op-eration for several weeks, 55 factories fact-ories in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon. Washington, California, Colorado and South Dakota are expected to produce approximately 24,240,000 one-hundred-pound bags of refined sugar as against the total produced produc-ed m the same area last year of 24,530,000 one hunderd pound -ags. Total beet sugar production this year in 17 beet sugar producing states of the nation, is estimated at 1,600,000 tons as against 1,685,-000 1,685,-000 tons in 1938. Estimated tonnage ton-nage yields per acre and total tonnage ton-nage of beets harvested throughout through-out the nation will be generally lower than last year; the number of acres to be harvested will be slightly more than in 1938, according accord-ing to sugar company executives. This may be offset by possible higher sugar content of beets harvested this year in some districts. dis-tricts. This factor, together with an increase in the value of the 1939 crop over 11938, due to recent re-cent improvement in sugar prices makes the total estimated value of this year's beet sugar production produc-tion $203,000,000 compared with approximately $168,000,000 in 1938. In Utah, plants of Utah-Idaho sugar company at Garland, Spanish Span-ish Fork and West Jordan will commence their season's run on October 9, 12, and 12, respectively. respective-ly. Plants of the Amalgamated Sugar Company at Lewiston and Ogden will open October 9 and 14, respectively. The Layton plant of the Layton Sugar Company will begin operating on October 9, and the Centerfield plant of the Gunnison Sugar Company wiil begin operating on October 16. Officals of these companies estimate the following aDDroxi- mate operating periods for these plant: Garland, 100 days; Spanish Fork, 70 days; West Jordan, 70 days; Ogden, 55 days, Lewiston, 74 days; Layton, 90 days; Center-field, Center-field, 80 days. The estimated tonnage by companies com-panies is as follows: Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1,130,000 tons; The Amalgamated Sugar Company, Com-pany, 845,000 tons; Layton Sugar Company, 85,000 tons; Gunnison Sugar Company, 82,000 tons. Franklin County Sugar Company, at Preston, Idaho, which also draws on Utah areas for a portion por-tion of its beets, will commence operating on October 9, to run for approximately 75 days, handling hand-ling approximately 100,000 tons of beets, for an estimated yield of 280,000 100-pound bags of sugar. Officals of these companies further estimate that 1939 operations opera-tions will give employment to 2100 Utah factory and receiving station workers, and 19,000 farmers farm-ers and field laborers this year, for a total factory and agricultural agricultur-al payroll of aproximately $3,810,-240. $3,810,-240. The estimated value of the crop in Utah, exclusive of sugar beet byproducts for livestock feeding and benefits to the land through fertilization, will be $12,-960,000, $12,-960,000, basing this estimate on present retail market price of sugar. The estimated value of beet tops, beet pulp and molasses for livestock feeding is worth another $555,000. Based on an expected harvest of 51,040 acres in this state, sugar companies will pay in property and excise taxes an average of $25.00 an acre, or a total of approximately ap-proximately $1,276,000. Estimates of production for the nine Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast beet growing states, including includ-ing Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Oregon, Washington, California, Cal-ifornia, Colorado, and South Dakota, Da-kota, indicate that total payrolls for the harvesting and processing of sugar wiil be $31,000,000, to be dived among a total of 166,000 growers, and field and factory workers. In this region, 55 factories fact-ories will operate fo ran average run of 80 days each. The total value of the sugar crop will be aproximately $145,440,000 with additional value of beet tops, molasses mol-asses and beet pulp for stock feed of about $6,000,000. Other benefits bene-fits from this industry from present pres-ent preliminary estimates are revenue to railroads and other transportation companies for hauling of the beets to the factories fact-ories and the sniping of the finished product to market at an average rate of $35.00 an acre, or 5 20,784, 400. Taxes derived from the operation of the industry in this area, including property and federal and the state excise and income taxes, will be another $14,840,000. This reeion normally produces (Continued on last page) Opening Beet Sugar Campaign For This Year (Continued from first page) approximately . 71 of the total ieet sugar produced in the United States. The remaining 29 comes .rorn states farther east, includ ing Michigan, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. When asked to estimate the amount which the beet growers in Utah and other Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states will receive, re-ceive, sugar company executives said it was impossible to estimate this amount as the farmer's share s based upon a sliding market price of the sugar at the time it is sold. With great market speculation specula-tion prevailing, due to international interna-tional conditions, and the uncertainty un-certainty of the government'e policy towards the domestic and the Cuban tariff, nobody can even guess at what the average market price of the present crop of sugar will be. It is to be hoped, however .that the farmer and the processor will both benefit by the present improved market. - |