The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-06

When the factory offers S4.25 per ton
/ for be'sts delivered it pays 20 cents per
ton higher than any other factory in
America in buying its bee',s for
/ stated price. Further, all beet sugar
I factories have to take a very great risk
| IN contracting for beets, as they never
! require in their contracts a definite
| number of tons Of beets, but have to
I contract for a certain number of acres.
Further, they are never sure at the
time of contracting whether they will
/ have a shortage of crops or a large
amount Of beets left on their hands
1 that cannot be worked at the end of
the season.
When The Herald undertakes to
criticize the management Of business
( or its policy, il should be better in
formed on the question at issue. When
I 1t enters the domain of the beet sugar
/ industry it is very apt to show its ig
! nor2nce, as it has done in the article
referred to-
/ The policy of this company has been
! from its incipiency to create new o
/ dUstry for Utah in which all concerned
should participate in the benefits ac-
/ cruing from it, whether it be the stock
/ holder or the farmer, and We have
/ spent large sums Of money in the past
! in educating the farmer - % the pres
/ ent standard that he has attained,
1 which UP to this date we have received
nothing for
/ viii state further that this is the
! only factory in the United States that
/ has helped the farmer in the outlying
districts to pay the frcights on his
beetS or TO pay fer the unloading of the
same as they come in. 1t is a rule to
make provisions in the contract in al!
OF the factories for stated sum per
ton to cover expenses of unloading.
weighing, express agents, etc. and
! when The Herald insinuates that we
are not treating the farmer fairly, it is
not only untrue, but it is unwise in the
extreme. Very truly yours.
THOMAS r. CUTLER,
Manager
Lehi, Utah, Nov 2, 1897.
The article was prompted by a news
item which was furnished The Herald
by the secretary of the company, the
item stating that the advance of 25
cents ton in the price of beets was
owing to the fact that the price of
sugar had advanced 81 per 100 pounds
as the result of the tariff So much as
to what prompted the article.
Mr.. Cutler says, in answer to The
Herald's statement that a ton of beets,
in year when they yield what is called
an average per cent of saccharine mat
ter, will make 210 pounds of sugar, that
the average sugar content up to this
date for the seven seasons is 1865 pounds
of graduated sugar per ton Of beets."
Mr.. Cutler also SAYS that when The
Herald enters the domain of the SUI
gar industry it is very apt to show it's
ignorance as it has done in the article
referred to-"
It is evident from what Mr.. Cutler
says that the mistake The Herald
made, if it did make a mistake, was
in the amount Of sugar produced from
q ton of beets. The Herald got its in
formation as to how much sugar ton
Of beets viii produce from an officer of
the sugar company, and nowhere else.
There are two or three stern facts
that Mr.. Cutler cannot set around, let
him use what arguments he may. One
Of these is that the price of sugar, as
the result of the tariff. has gone up 81
per 100 pounds Another fact is that
when sugar goes up 81 per 100 pounds,
and 165 pounds are made from one ton
of beets, the factory gets $1.65 more
and without any additional expense to
itself. Mr.. Cutler will hardly be able
to controvert this, try as he may, and
go into details as he chooses. Tt viii
also seem to the ordinary mind that
makes no pretensions to any special or
technical knowledge of the beet sugar
industry, that where, through the oper-
alton of law, sugar company gets
81. 65 more out of every ton of beet9
that it makes into sugar, and without q
single cent of additional expense, than
it did before the law was enacted, that
% cents more for the farmer for his
beets and $40 to the company, is not
a fair and equitable division of IN
earned increment.
One word in conclusion. There is not
g. paper in the state that has been more
anxious to encourage the sugar indus
try in Utah than has The Herald
Whenever there has been talk of es-
tablishing a new factory, as at Gun
nison, at Springville and at ogden, this
paper has been more than glad to give
the proposed undertaking every encour-
agement. The Herald also believes that
the farmer who raises the sugar beets
needs encouragement quite as much as
the factories; and it will give it to
them.
NEXT CITY ADMINISTRATION.
OF one thing we feel perfectly salts
IL