| Show 1 al ami jab ate gagle gag lg h b az 01 W n all ji RA e tho liaa gunnison sugar company has circulated among amon the beet printed letter in which it says we ask particularly barly that the Il growers rowers of sevier county a growers ask them selves elves officials and ask the of our competitor the following questions which said on oil herein I 1 questions will be repeated later in reply the undersigned undersigner under signed beet growers bet beg to state in their own behalf and in hundreds of beet growers 11 who lio signed si ned the open letter winch which behalf of the appeared in the and to which letter the gunnison sugar company takes reaper of december ask ourselves the questions exceptions that we have propounded in said companas comp anys questionnaire and have certain officials of the utah interrogated idaho sugar company to the extent that we deemed now make the following 0 1 reply necessary ani and question 1 if our contract with an added guaranteed mini minimum of muni ton or is per not more advantageous to the gro growers why is our com competitor petit or offering a minimum in idaho and only in utah answer idaho beets over a period of F twenty have years contained from ten to of sur ar ton in 2 eleven pounds sugar per pei excess of the utah beets which excess sugar ar at six cents to per pound amounts mounts I per ton of beets in ill value over the in tile the sugar utah beets b beets and thereby have the fairly justified manufacturer manufacture in offering tile the extra per ton for them upon tile the initial payment question 2 9 it is claimed that considering the present prices pric 11 of sugar tile the sliding scale co contract itself will not take only offered caie of the added guaranteed minimum um by our company but may pay more what will vall happen to the utah ut should the price of decline growers of sugar to or brig bag who per will then compensate them for the difference inthe inthe minimum guarantee answer if the price of sugar decline to or per lag bag there will be no compensation to the grower for the per p er ton difference on the initial payments but the sugar together to ether with the stron strong prospects of its still present price of taking a substantial raisse raise a safe ten to i in price make it bet one that L there will be no such decline as indi indicated C abed in the next t several does not the gunnison years no company compana believe that it is playing safe in the price 1 it il is offering for beets cart can be made anyone to believe that it is philanthropic thought tho aught based if the gunnison if so upon which of its past actions is this company w was Is so anxious to be benevolent why did it not about october ath when the on or market sugar showed such strength that eliat alie manufacturers and state faini faim D bureau ure IU officials official in meeting assembled agreed I upon as satisfactory satis factor and initial y approved of I 1 an payment of see deseret news and tribune of october 6 1926 and offer and not wait jump out until well ivell alon along into december and u until after had taken sugar substantial raise before it presented i its ts ia 7 50 contract to beet rowers of sevier another ints ants county daybreak in the at morning and after dark at night without making any public announcement of the same the sugar suar 11 1 1 market now almost coil conclusively indicates that beets sold at an initial of price per ton and participating participation in the benefits of the sliding scale will yield to the much grower as money to last penny penn Y as the gunnison company is is offering under its initial plus any additional that hat t may corne come from its slid shian scale payment doubt this ia does my any official ofa fici 1 of tile the gunnison company question 2 par 3 if as threatened by our competitor there loss bevenue may be a in saable through ohp th le inoval of its plant hould this burden be shift shifty 1 entirely upon the shoulders of tile the beet growels by the loss of the ad added I 1 ed 50 c per ton t answer liewer this question is so absurd as hardly to merit an answer in ili what conceivable dav van fan tile the bard im 1 Tul 1 gulting 1 ting from tile loss of taxable property ty in sevier of tile the county other thousands be shifted of entirely taxpayers upon the should rs of dl the beet growers to the e excision ac the cold facts are which the alie gunnison CO company aily officials will lip riot not deny delly that thai if the El elnore snore factory is eliminated from sevier count county y it will resift result in a direct t loss to our schools of and to tj our county of 2996 38 J or a total direct loss of under tinder the t e prevailing levies it would be difficult to conceive of a more audacious attempt to disastrously injure our schools se and our county under the lie t guise el ilise of business than the purpose of the gunnison company to ruin the elsinore E factory factor what sort of a reception do you think the of sanpete county and the gunnison gu lions club would give to representatives of tile alie utah 1 laho elalio sugar company would they go 0 into sanpete county with a proposition and boldly assert the same that they were there to t 0 build up alie thi e elsinore factory at a cost of the destruction of the gunnison factory unless these caniete sanpete Sa niete people possess far less loyalty to their county than we give them credit for having they would cit get jo t out of I 1 here bere iere the quickest way you know how or take the consequences tal that tt will be ich say acted upon you by an in indignant dinant people question 2 par 4 if the present price of sugar maintains does not our contract also insure e an ail additional payment even beyond the minimum guarantee answer it is elementary that the larger the tae initial payment is the smaller the sliding scale daymen t will 1 be question gg 3 par p 1 the he statement ha been made that because of a somewhat lesser leer average sugar 11 content in our north districts the file growers in in the south district with their beets commingled with the aliers will receive less for heir beets answer the gunnison factory facton I 1 nor any other factory can divide with the grower on the 50 50 sliding 1 scale any more money than it lias has to divide the amount of money it has to divide depends upon the amount of sugar sti ar it has to sell and the amount of sugar it has to sell depends up on the suar su ar content of the b beets it manufactures into su sugar suar ar and the iii higher her the sugar content of the beets alie the more money will be received upon the ton tonnage naffe of beets manufactured into su sugar suar 11 ar but since the money received available for distribution under the sliding 11 scale is prorated equally to each ton of beets sliced at the factory the r grower who furnishes beets of 1414 sug content gets the same returns as the one whose beets contain a 1612 0 sugar content question 3 par 2 has our company not always paid as much or more for its ita beets than the elsinore factory answer we think not in one particular year unless we are areu badly adly mistaken the majority of the rowers who furnished beets to the gunnison factory received only per ton while in in the same year the growers who furnished beets to the elsinore factory received over per ta ton 0 11 question 4 our company because of the 1926 beet crop failure has waived and cancelled an celled all ail its seed and ana planting charges has ha our competitor done likewise answer it was not necessary for the utah idalio idaho company to proclaim from the housetops house tops that it would cancel all its seed and planting char the beet rowers know this without be in told from past history never in the past twenty years has the butali idaho company col a lecter a dollar from the grower for seed or planting where the rower delivered no beets to I 1 i ts factory and it will not do so for the year 1926 question 5 why does our competitor in its contract oue offers you ona only minimum nevertheless attach a string thereto requiring that the beets shall average in sugar content 1414 14 0 o or more our con contract makes no such limitations answer As far as the beet growers 1 I rowers of sevier county are concerned the requirement rement of of c su sugar content 0 of wo to get an initial initial price of per ton has no effect whatever sevie seve sh county beets furnished to the elsinore factory have never fallen below a 15 sugar cont content ent bu m in occasional ocasio mii P places aces in n utah where the utah idaho company has factories the sugar T content ha allen fallen evl below 1411 and since this company has a uniform contract for the entire state it contain this provision E the statement of the gunnison sugar company by W harvey harvey ross f fo it its circular letter viz the gunnison su sugar suar ar company is is not seeking to destroy yank an ic somewhat startling and puzzling in the fa ce of the declaration of the same W harver rosias president before the richfield commercial club on last december ath when after accepting aty introduction in substance as tile man who killed the elsinore sugar factory said ill 9 two dupar factories cannot exist in the sevier and gunnison valle ys a n d we are here to pron lold e the welfare of the gunnison factory that it shall be the one to remain lema 1 what cas can such a mean other than if sevier county people support the gunnison factory to tiie extent that its oo 00 fibers are urging KW them to do that it will destroy an industry the greatest t industry iii nevii county the elsinore bastory Fa story whom shall the people believe the NIT harvey ro ss pre ut at yi suK fisuk dent lalio addressed the Ri clifield commercial club or the W halvey ross president nd N d ge sins si ns the circular letter on behalf of the gunnison 11 company we ask particularly the grower ask S ass and ask th e officials jbf our competitors this question rv J F ogden th e J P poulson atiat i in at geo A beal the ie john christensen Christen seii lir ir of the sif signers piers of the open L atter to io ch tha th citizens ind taxpayers of sevier afe county he ter PC ail nes a i UM ganti anti ison 1110 W hen |
