Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-30
THE SUGAR OCTOPUS
EelaiIOus Attempt 10 Crush 40 In
poTllnt Industry.
PLANS or Az INFAMOUS TRUST


Tho air has been nll,d with rumop
for the pest several dsys TO the effect
that the widely talked Ut sugar trust,
whuss extensive AMI iat.reaohiug
powers nave only been vaguely known
90 IN UAh a. uil this time, had at
length entered this community m
competition with the Utah Sugar
company, aud tuat Ia, home concern
WI seriously alarmed 40 the prospect
Of haht with tue great foreign or.
lomuon.
rnutc IL no doubt that there zro con-
siderable grounds VI al tnc.e umors.
Ia pas, srus1us the Western Refinery
at san Ffauoisco, when suigs into
Utah ail the outside sugsf used here,
uEs simply nrli aiuoi duutg the three
10 ilut munth. the product ui tue LEM
iagioB wa, on the market, allowed
that product 70 be sxuaus,ui AMI tueu
F,-uutefri the FIELD. la this way san
Ffauoiaul last year sup lied Utah ilh
~ thirds q uvf sugar Hud tue home
company with tue Otuor Third. Ihis
ear, whether owing o. the fact that
,hc Lem factory expects ~ turn out
lurlrr Hm uut tuau usual, uf whether
the iiuuuuial hiiAlfs OF tue Tract, due
90 recent lug tsinliun, are such that they
afu uuwillIng 10 Kivo ~ he revenue
rom THIS Territory there seems o. DO
"a change Ia tue program. Tho lfliccis
uf thu Lem factory were made aware
Outing tue past few days that some.
thing was wrong by the fact that tho
ORDERS ior their suggf, which ran uni.
iufmly at Two Cafluaua prr LAY, began
% decrease, anu that VA manner
when told them tnat tue dimlnuuon
was ugl duu ~ suy lack Of drmand ON
tuu Uart OF the pubiic. Tue Lehi
sugar h. admittedly The superior u the
outside Project, ah the TACT that
u won tno fret pfEs Ia compo.
iu0u with the Ca otnin sugar nj
the Midwintof Far, amply tesiihes.
10 IL popular with consumers,
every whore, aud when thu orders for
II b gan 10 tumble, II could be due TO
| only one fact, And that was that tho
/ tfust was secretly undstDidding this
local company, aud Inducing certain
iDbbofa VINO had Hitherto ha.dlod w
Utah product 10 switch OF 70 .n'
for,ipn. Manager CutlEl satirhe'
him'sIf Of inis aud thep W ins-al-.
thing possible, a.sa.cl 80 J0bbers VIII,
stood by tho home concern that b.,
would meet any lTice UiiuTcI them ~
the trust. To the credit VI several Ol
the principal Wholesale houses, u
should be- Known that they declined this
ovcftufes OF the representative OF the
tfust,An finally annuu ced thatas long
~ the Utah company had sugar 10
sell, they would give that company the
preference. The only question now Il,
10 what lengths will the trust 40 la its
endeAyor 10 force the local Institution
out Of the market. Win millions o.
capital back Bt H.. II could wage n
warfare without feeling u, that would
soon bu disastrous 10 any competitor.
sugar IA already az n very low price,
aud the margin OF profit 10 the Utah
company Ia very small, u indeed there
be- any Al all; what the effect VI fur
tnet material cut would be, IL very un'
certain,
The board Of directors Of the com.
Many htld two hour meeting this
morning 10 consider the question, there
being present Elias Morris, the pfrsi'
Ieni, Ggorsc q Cannon, Hrbrr J..
| Grant, Ffaur,s "a fmslr0ng, WIN, 10,
Preston, Spencer Cawsou, James
} Jack, l.. q. Harry, John Beck, Man
I agrt Cutler aud Secretary and Treas.
ufer whitney. After the meeting
Manager Cutler stated 20 representa-.
lives VI the pfsfs who questioned
! MIN that tho snole situation was de.
cussed, aud while no dual conclusion
hal been reached, the Board felt
conf lent that the loyalty and
patriotism Of the people would compel
Them 10 stani by the home company
Iif there was 10 be- any struggle =,
especially az their sugar was Mt least
uqu. 20 The imported ami It's price the
tauO,
Tomorrow evening the Board, with
humber OF business men specially
invited, will make n visit 10 the lac
tory,