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Show Sugar Company Announces Pay of $150,000 Vast Sum To Be Distributed Distrib-uted Among Growers On November 1, for October Deliveries Crop is About Half Up. Beet growers will "round out" a smile with the announcement that the Gunnison Sugar company will distribute checks amounting to approximately $150,000 about November Nov-ember lst. The checks will bo mailed just as soon as a check has been made on the deliveries made up to and including October Octo-ber 28th. Notwithstanding the fact that the beet contracts with the Gunnison Sugar company provide that the first payment be made on the 15th of November, the officials, sensing the depressed condition and ever eager to aid the growers, are advancing the first payment fifteen days earlier. In other payments for the October Octo-ber deliveries have been made from five to seven days earlier than the contracts call for. However, How-ever, the attitude of the company officials, in announcing the early payments for this year, "wiU be met with high favor, and everj grower, thereby, will be greatly benefited. The payment to be distributed about November, 1 will be for the October deliveries. Plans have also been made by the company to make following payments just as soon as beets are delivered and checked in. Approximately, one-half of the crop in the district covered by the Gunnison Sugar company has been delivered at the factory and several thousand tons oi beets yet to be harvested will add more to the purses of the growers during November. It is estimated that some $200, 000 will go to the growers as a result cf the 1931 harvest. This figure is low as compared with other years, but the climatic and growing conditions this year have been far below normal, and only slightly over 50 per cent of the ordinary year crops are being harvested. In addition to the beet checks to be distributed, the company is aiding matereially In the unemployment situation.. For labor, materials and other incidentals, inci-dentals, the company will have expended something like $75,000. This amount, together with the beet checks, will prove a big boon to the section. The big sugar plant is performing per-forming wonderfully, according to Hart J. Sanders, superintendent. Following the first few days, or until every part was well broken in, the plant is spinning alon splendidly, and records of previous pre-vious years have been smashed An average of some 925 tons are being sliced every 24 hours, and thus far, no serious breaks have intervened to slacken the average aver-age daily out. Gunnison Valley News. |