Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-05 | Page 17 | Tariff Only Cloud on Sugar Industry Prospects--Cutler

TARIFF ONt ONLY Y CLOUD T W 1 i V p ON Odd SUGAR INDUSTRY r Fen en Per Cent More Acreage Pledged This Year Than Last Tariff unc uncertainty a aside ld the Utah 11 beet sugar Industry wa was never In better 1 condition according to Thomas 13 R. R Cutler Cut Cut- s 's f. f ler of or the thc Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compan Contracts are now note all up tip and planting begins In fifteen da days s for tor tori i about 10 p per r cent more acreage than I was pl pledged to the company compan last year ear Last year ear the Utah sugar production was about tons Allowing tho same ame conditions this year car about tons is expected Idaho Also I o shows a a. 5 per pur cent Increase In acreage Mr Cutler says he believes cI that floe trade Ualle in sugar JUgar would kill the beet In- In Ju tJ in Utah and Idaho The tariff question he sa says s 's Is verj cr peculiar and has hns man many an angles The price price- of or sugar sug-ar la is now Vcr very low We Wo do not make malo In profit as much as tho the tarl tariff amounts to so 90 if It the latter were taken toon aWa away profits and more would bo be swept awn away The sugar quotations shift shirt da day b by da day but April 1 for or instance sugar was wai 66 GG cents per hundred pounds cheaper in London than in the western rafted 1 States Slates The tariff on that thal hundred hundred hun hun- dred pounds was wa 1348 1 The Tho difference for 01 or parity was GS 68 cents which was the margin on which the American sugar operated That is all aJl we enjo enjoy Also Ahw that 68 cents parity was not all profit iby by a lon long way We- We arc not malting making jI jI I lass j an any CS cents per hundred pounds or ou I 1 sU sugar ar I t Of Ot course European conditions exI cx- cx I 1 ert crt a great Influence on the cost CORt of ot otI I sugar with or without tariff Wars I and nd it II drou drought ht such as existed In n Europe In 1911 1211 would make a a. short supply and better prices But in 1912 for instance the production was tons more moru than In 1 1011 11 an and prices naturally slumped I have havo little hesitation In saying that under the tho best conditions the taking aWa away of the tariff would absolutely cripple the sugar industry IH here re and under normal conditions It would It kill III It It