The San Francisco call., 1895-07-16
THE BEET-SUCAR BOUNTY.
Regulations Governing the
Payment of Arrears Have
Been Made.
Three-Ouarters of a Million Dollars
to Be Distributed Among Them
This Year.

The bounty on beet sugar manufactured
prior to August %, 1884, is to be paid. This
will be glad news for the factory-owners
and their employees, as it will mean the
distribution of nearly 5000, 900 among them.
Instructions in regard to the matter
reached Collector of Internal Revenue
Welburn Yesterday. The regulations for
warded at the same time state:
Payments of bounty under the. provi-
sions of law will be made to licensed
sugar producers who complied with the
Of the tar act Of October sso
and regulations made and approved for the
enforcement of said law in force prior to the
2Sth day of August, 1894. Each individual
who claims bounty under the above provisions
will make his application to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. When the claims
are allowed drafts upon the treasury will be
issued in payment and mailed or delivered to
the persons entitled thereto.
A bounty of cents pound is to be
paid on all sugars testing not less than 80
degrees by the polariscope and ~ cents
pound on all testing less than 80 and not
less than so degrees by the polariscope.
The time up to which application for the
bounty could be made was to have ex-
pired on the 1st inst, but owing to the
Governments delay the time has been ex-
tended.
There are three beet-sugar factories in
California that will be directly benefited by
the new law. They are tine Western Beet
Sugar Company of Watsonville, the Chino
Beet Sugar Company Of San Bernardino
County and the Alameda Beet Sugar Com
pany of Alvarado. The beet-growers are
also directly interested, as the understand
ing between the farmer and company was
that so much of the bounty was to go to
the farmer if it was paid.
"The amount provided by Congress to
pay the bounty is $238, ,239 o." said Chief
Deputy Collector Louis Loupe yesterday.
"There are only seven beet sugar factories
in the United States and of these three are
in California. The total amount of bounty
paid last year was SS52, 174 84, and of that
sum $685., 768 came to ti'is State. Our three
factories produced 35,065,479 pounds of
sugar, working on an average of 100 days
each during the year. They employ on an
average lbs men each.
''Of the bounty paid the Western fac
tory received $305, ,773 80, the Chino factory
$S6,797 %. Since that time the Chino fac
tory has doubled its output and the West
ern factory is producing more and more
each season. The back amount to be paid
the three factories will amount to about
$1S0,00O, which will be nice little plum
for them in these hard times.
Producers who have not sold or shipped
the sugar upon which they are entitled TO
receive bounty can have it inspected,
weighed and classified under the direct
supervision of internal revenue agents
designated for the service.
"Any person applying for last years
bounty must send a full statement of the
operations at the factory for the period
beginning on the 2Sth day of August, 1894,
and ending on the 30th day of June, 1895.
This statement must be sworn to by the
producar or his autboriZed agent and also
by the person who bad the immediate
supervision of the production of said sugar
at the factory of the producer during the
period named. 1t is great thing for Cal
ifornia, as the payment of the back amount
and this last years bounty will mean the
distribution of three quarters of million
dollars here"