The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-13


FREMONT. Neb., Jan. 12-The smaller
sugar beet raisers have called a meeting
for Saturday evening at the court house,
at which it is expected action will be taken
on bringing suit to enjoin the payment
of the state bounty to the Oxnards. The
probability is that Judge Maxwell viii
he ernployed Actions are liable to be
brought against the companies for not
fulflling the terms of their contracts
c. ". Sheldon today received returns on
a car load of beets he shipped. He re-
ceived s6.SS for nearly twenty-five tons
Of beets. the company charging him extra
for unloading Charles NIunzel received
s21. so he says. for three cars Of beets
The action OF the Dodge county beet
producers is but the forerunner of wide
spread. organized opposition to the sugar
makers of Nebraska with reference to
their treatment of the beet raisers- On
the 5th and 9Th OF next month a state
convention of beet raisers will be held
IN this city The representation already
PROMISES to be large. The chief object Of
The convention is TO bring about perfect
organization for protection against al
legged unfair treatment upon the part Of
the sugar makers.
The last session of the Nebraska legis-
Iature passed a law providing for a
bounty of three-eighths of cent per
pound for every pound Of beet sugar
manufactured in Nebraska, with a pro-
viso that beets possessing a certain per
cent. OF saccharine should be paid for at
The rate of s. per ton When the sugar
makers at Grand Island and Norfolk re-
Gently made a showing before the state
auditor and claimed bounty money there
or in the amount of $4,000, the auditor
&c For b114
he state treasurer declined TO pay the
money for the reason that the legislature
failed to specifically appropriate money
10 pay sugar bounties 1t is understood
The sugar makers will mandamus the
state to pay the money. 1t is this prom
ised action that the beet raisers of Dodge
county are preparing TO resist in the
courts The motive for action is the
unfair treatment received by them at the
sugar factories.
Complaint from sugar beet raisers in
various parts of the state the past season
against the unWarranted action of the
O1nards have been numerous and bitter
Hundreds of farmers were induced to
plant beets believing that they would be
paid s. a ton for the greater share Of
The crop. 1t soon became evident, how
ever that the chemists in the employ of
report the quality of the beets in accord
ance with results of analyses. In plain
words, the producers charged fraud. The
sugar makers retaliated, closing down
their mills and declared they could not
do business al loss. The up-shot Of it
all was that a large portion of last year S
crop of beets was rendered unstable and
dhe producers were forced in the end to
accept the terms Of the sugar makers.
who, about d month ago, offered a fiat
rate of $3.50 a ton for the beets. The
sugar raisers protested. They demanded
that the beet experts from the faculty
Of the state university be called to the
factories to make official analyses of the
lDeets in the cars and on the side tracks
al Norfolk and Grand Island. The re-
port of the states chemist was not al
together satisfactory to either party.
Hence the state convention of beet raisers
next month to formulate a plan Of action
before the legislature next winter, when
81 is asserted the bounty law Will I'M
doubtedly be repealed