Show GUNNISON U NY rn n if 11 more than is paid by majority of factories in in utah gunnison co will meet price we are in receipt of the loll follo telegram which speaks for itself and does not require any a ny commentary on our part salt lake city utah bar 30 dr BI markus in last weeks issue of your salina paper you state that a group of public spirited private citizens have offered a bonus of 1 per ton for beets delivered to the elsinore plant of the utah idaho sugar company dereb thereby insuring the operation of that factory you then refer to a clause in in tile the contract offered by our company which according to you provides provide that if any other company o offers erss a hahr price during the net years this price will be met by the gunn gunnison li 50 n company this clause is quoted erroneously the clause referred to reads as follows it is further e expressly understood that if at any time the initial payment is to be made by the company for beets delivered as herein contemplated during each respective year of the life of this agreement the prevailing initial price for said beets paid by a mij majority arity of the other sugar factories in utah shall be in excess of said initial payment of per ton then the company shall pay to said growers said prevailing initial price price in lieu of said sum of as hereinbefore mentioned you follow your quotation by saying that you are now cooki looking ng forward to a statement from our company to tile the effect that we ne are going to pay 8 as a guaranteed minimum we of course will abide by the provisions visions on of our contract you make a point in your article that the additional payment of 1 beyond its established minimum in utah of 7 per ton is made by private parties and not by the utah idaho sugar company consequently we feel that such offer does not in any way apply to provision we have quoted from our contract if in fact the S guarantee for beets delivered to the elsinore plant is backed by the utah idaho sugar company and the same price is paid by tile alie majority of the factories ope operating rating in utah our company will nill meet the increased minimum until such time as j this is lone done and since the utah idaho sugar company denies that it is back of the offer of the increased minimum in sevier county it is evident that our company is paying more for beets in the state of utah luring during the current year than any other company gunnison sugar company t I 1 r in the sanie same matter and referring to an article in the tribune of march 30 we ie received the following letter A great disappointment I 1 was much surprised when arc 1 I the last nights tribune I 1 thou thought ht hv bv reading the headlines that the gunnison valley sugar company had decided to pay 8 per ton for beets but not so tiie the article states they will provided all other companies companie in the state make a uniform price of S which we have no guarantee hey will wa 10 lo do A very clever way of evading a direct promise respectfully yours vours geo A A beal |