Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-06
SUGAR COMPANY MEETING
Report Of the Vice President for the Past
Year.
lie Says Indications Are Exceedingly
bright for the Coming
season.

ers Of The Utah Sugar company Is in
progress this afternoon In the Temple
ton building The hearing of the re-
ports for the past year and the election
Of new board OF directors are the
main items Of business to be transacted.
From the report the News" has been
permitted to make the following ex-
tracts:
The annual report Of the company
submitted by Vice President Thomas Il.
Cutler. In the absence Of prest. Geo, Q.
Cannon, states that the past season
had not been a very profitable one for
beet farmers from an agricultural
standpoint. on account Of the scarcity
OF water, the snowfall during the win
tiers Of 1899 and 1900 nave been extreme.
ly light. Although tine farmers made
every effort possible to obtain water,
1t was only In the most favored locali-
ties that there was an average crop, the
average tonnage being "A fraction over
eight tons per acre while many crops
ran below five. Not only was the crop
reduced In tonnage, but the drouth
caused corresponding reduction In the
sugar in the beat. the average being
only al per cent, against 1888 per cent
for the year previous.
The board Of directors, realizing the
losses sustained by the farmers, author
ICED the manager 10 remit the whole
charge for seed and planting where en-
tire failures occurred, and one-half OF
the seed and planting expense, where
the tonnage was below per acre, The
farmers were quite grateful for this
concession. The cost to the company
was about $4,000
A partial loss Of the hay crop, says
the report, and the consequent high
prices for hay caused an unprecedented
demand for pulp with the result that
the company had to limit the amount
sold to each farmer. We also fed about
1000 head of cattle ourselves with very
good results,
The remodeling Of the Lehi plant, the
putting in of the Bingham Junction cut
ting station and pipe line were COM
pleted in time to handle the crop and
we could have easily worked up 90 per
cent more beets than we did If we could
have secured better results from our
acreage.
The total expenditures at Lehi,
Springyillesand Bingham Junction dur
ing the past two years have been S6ol,-
534.I9. which now gives US magnificent
system capable Of working at least l,OOO
tons of beets per day. When every
thing was running smoothly we have
frequently run as high as 200 tons Oh
beets per day.
Ii was DENIED advisable in view of the
possibilities in the vicinity OF Provo
10 put in cutting station at that
point. Land has been purchased az
point about three miles north OF the
Oregon Short Line station at Provo ana
we shall build and equip a Provo plant
In time to handle the crop OF the COM
ing fan. It viii be connected with the
main pipe line running 20 the Lehi fac
tory. and this will obviate the diiil-
culties which we have been under at
Provo In obtaining cars for transport
ing beets to Lchi.
While Utah has suffered from the
light crop, the loss was small compared
with conditions I'm California In the
beet sugar industry Generally speak
ing. the increase IN the production OF
beet sugar in the United states is not
very marked. There have been a NUM-
her Of failures the past year IN fac
tories erected, and the Louisiana sugar
cane crop was quite poor owing to the
excessive moisture,
About % per cent Of our sugar output
from last season has been marketed on
the Missouri river, and the increase in
the number Of factories In Utah VIII
necessitate a very large per cent OF our
sugar being carried east In the future.
We have already made contracts for
about 1000 acres Of beets for the COM
ing season. This may be very material
" increased we are now assured OF
plenty of water for irrigation so that |
regard our prospects as exceedingly
bright for a large crop during the COM
ing season During the run
Of 1900 the greatest amount
of beets worked in one day
was 1876 tons as against i3G IN 1899. We
paid for beets in 1900 S2i2,2i46l, IN 1899,
2i7.7lS0i paid far fuel In 800 $50 SO3.-
Gj; in 1899, S3651lS2; paid FOR lime rock
In 1900, Sj.G7i30. IN 1899. &.1737f; paid
for manufacturing material and bags
in 1900. SST2l356; in 1890 S325S31f Our
labor pay roll in 1900, SiS662S9; in 1899
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