| Show GUNNISON SUGAR COMPANY POSITION FINT ST or OF THE COMPANY PRESENTS TO GROWERS AND PUBLIC there is considerable agitation in richfield and sexier savier county towns conle aning the industry its and future the gunnison sugar Coni piny has mide possible till this complicated situation by bv reason of its attract attractive ise contract submitted to the groi trotters Aers of till tins count the have offered the aprile of sa 7 90 0 per ton for ibus together with the small mail sum of 7 r per er ton on for p ilp alp delivered to the nearest railroad point of the producers 1 ahe h gillin gunnison on augar i ugar company has always abib maintained an enviable reputation for the service it has furnished its constituents there has been a friendie fri endl endi feeling always evident and the entire industry in tins ills section of t the h e state has profited by the efforts and concessions that have been made to the Rr ovien by the gunnison Gun sugar company compan up to the present time ti m e their record his blen ben unimpeachable and therefore they can inter navi fields and a like and similar service will be rendered to new patrons it is also alo proper because of this showing that the citizens of sesler county be not mislead or disturbed b the calamitous predictions of the competitors of this company and their agents the file gunnison Gunni aon on sugar company entered this section of sexier seier count at the solicitation arid and invitation of the producers of sugar beets beet and the very attract attractive ne contract offered was as productive product ne of the signature of a vast majority of the growers grower 4 there is no question hut but that tile growers in sexier count v will receive all of the bent benefits fits enjoyed by the he patrons pat in sanpete count and parts of savier count the utah ld idaho tho company compan to meet this contracts contract has not offered any further inducement induce ments to the growers grower but lias has appealed to the citizenry to continue to patronize pa then by reason of the fact to contract beets elsewhere dolid seriously impair the operation of the elsinore factory it is stoutly ur ed that the taxes tales derived from the location of HIP factory facton in sener county will diminish that the he enterprise which so well weli serves berres the cointa will be abolished that employees habitually employed by the and residing in sevier S vier county will be divested directed of their employment it that to beppo support rt an outside enterprise will he an ovi oti rt artof net of these 1 1 continued on page pae five Q gunnison GUNNISON SUGAR POSITION continued from pago one pr propositions 0 positions are practically the only ones that have haie been adduced adduced in favor of the utah idaho sugar company and against the gunnison sugar company this la in exclusively a business proposition two competitive organizations and should be weighed on the ecale 4 of business since the beginning of commerce and industry competition has been the life and the moving factor in the furtherance and development of the same when competition is assailed and abolished oppression premon op and dissatisfy dissatisfaction action promptly enters the most wholesome thing that has been done for the farmers fan ners and the citizens generally of this section is the competition which has haa recently been generated beewen the conflicting interests of these two sugar companies when appeal must be made to patriotism to loyalty and to influence rather than to the elements directly involved in a business controversy tro versy then the opponent using those weapons is guilty of begging the question and tacitly conceding that it cannot longer meet the competition by h business methods regularly employed the gunnison sugar company compan his presented a bu briness iness proposition for the rejection tion or the adoption of the farmers and beet growers grov kers it has made no appeal to the loyalty loyally to patriotism or to an anything thing disconnected with the business involved in growing crowing and marketing beets it stands fairly and squarely qu arely upon its business record no inducements are made as to any independent matters matter 4 such as the residence of individuals and things thing outside of the contract between the grower and the manufacturer and the these c things so commended themselves to the farmers that it would be a beneficial venture that an overwhelming overwhelm majority of the farmers farmer 4 interviewed promptly prompts tl signed tile the same the utah idaho augir company has sought ought by subterfuge and indirect method to criticize and condemn the action of the gunnison sugar company not by offering a contract which appeals to the intelligence of the grov grower cr ot of beets as superior or equal by the me oner offer in lien thereof an appeal to his loyalty and to the fact that he is a resident of the county of sevier seiler in matters of business imaginary geographical lines separating counties should be disregarded and any proposition should be weighed carefully and judicious 1 and accepted or rejected solely and exclusively upon its individual dual merits ments the success of the sugar beet industry depends entirely en tirel upon the support and loyalty loyally on the part of the sugar beet growers to the industry that they serve chis support and loyalty on the part of the sugar bet beet be t growers cannot be expected by any industry unless the grower is compensated and receives remuneration for his efforts that are inducing the grower will not plant beets if he cannot make money thereby the gunnison sugar company has hai kept this idea foremost in mind it has always been first to an increased price for belts it has alar rendered every facility to assist the grower in the handling of 0 his beets for this reason the farmer has continued to grow beets and contract with mith the gunnison sugar company the serious condition under which the beet grower groner has operated for the past few years cars has caused him to become discouraged so that an entire failure of the sugar beet industry in this section of the country is threatened unless the grower I 1 is encouraged and glien given the utmost confidence of the sugar company hind findling ling his beet beef alth inith this thought in view new the Gun sugar company offered the increased price per ton for the beets as an inducement to encourage the farmers to continue the he industry indu sir it is argued that there would be a great loss to this his count county bv way of decreased taxes if the present sevier county count factory should be rented removed iha hy should the beet growers stand this extra expense as against the other citizens and taxpayers of the count 7 the beet grower will be in a better position if he incepts the mot 3 acci rac for se or oc his beets to pi kiy his taxes than to accept a contract ring less amount for his beets and retain the tax remuneration of the present factory the tos to falling upon III all ers equally rither than upon the beet growers if the factory is the beet gro growers iNers have hae no need to toube the he ability of the he guar sen sugar company to filkill fi lill their part of the contracts entered d ii to mr william wrig gle jr is controlling the gunnison sugar company nl ni is batain bai daj it financially to the limit the gunnison sugar company desires to contin con tinie Le the sr ces thit hat it has always rendered to the hett beet growers by way idy of loading fECi litie as well as an increased price for the beets llie ills company is lion the lery newest aid best equipment for the handling of the it haidea baneat time not only for the transferring of beets f om to car hut it is further preparing facilities for anc ocr portable dela tors vilere large kilei are arc r so ulan the he record heretofore made naich will be continual 1 in this section there is i no question lut but thit th it service b ater prices ard increased facilities will be granted gran teil to the growers ro Ners of beets in this seton of sexier sevier county and upon this record we feel hit ye v e are entirely justiles jus tiled in asking for or the patro patronage patrom nige ge of the growers of beets W HARVEY ROSS president gunn bon augir co |
