The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-09
PRICE OF BEET
SUGAR SHIFTED
NOW SELLS AT LOS AN
GELEs 5 CENTS UNDER FIGURE
PREVAILING ELSEWHERE.

LOS ANGELES, September 3d.
Cosmo Morgan, who is agent for all
the sugar producers of the Coast, said
today that he had received a tele-
gram stating that difference of 20
cents had been made between cane and
beet sugar, a drop of 10 cents being
made for beet, while cane will remain
at the old price. Morgan considers
that the battle for beet sugar in this
city has been practically won.
This is considered a shrewd move on
the part of the sugar trust in its en-
deavors to promote the sale of beet
sugar in this section, where the ratio
between the consumption of cane and
beet has been greater than 20 to l.
The telegram reads that the difference
has been made by the American Beet
Sugar Company (OXnard's factories),
but the regulation is actually made by
the Western Refinery, which controls
the market.
An unexplained feature of the case
, is that only a difference of Is cents
has been made in the San Francisco
territory as against 20 cents here, and
the price of beet sugar is no longer
Uniform over the Coast. Morgan, when
asked what was the reason of the diff
| ference between the reduction by the
Western Refinery and the Southern
manufacturers, said: what, really,
didn't know; it does seem bit odd"
you say the reduction of 10 cents in
price has been made by the American
Beet Sugar Company and only cents
by the Western Refinery"
THAT is the point and it will have
the effect of turning all of the beet SUI
gar business into Southern California"
What factories does the American
Beet Sugar Refinery Company in
clude?"
why Oxnard Chino and Alamitos
factories. That is-er-I mean that w.
a. Clarks factory has also made a re-
duction of 10 cents.
A local jobber said last night: This
reduction in the price of beet sugar will
increase the sale of the home product
by making it an object for retailers TO
handle it and force its sale. The differ
ence of 10 cents between cane and beet
sugar which has existed for so long
time was no object, and beet sugar was
just about off the market. Now the
dealers will take it up again as a leader
and it is probable that most of the
stores will cut their margin of profit
down and sell twenty pounds for 81,
1T looks as if the manufacturers
mean business in their endeavor to OBJ
viate the necessity of shipping their
product to the Middle States, but don't
get the idea that the American Beet
Sugar Company is doing it, for the
whole thing is a blind. The market
Is manipulated by the Western REIN
cry and the difference between the San
Francisco and Southern market is the
arrangement in the side. The output
of the Northern factories is well taken
care of in the San Francisco territory,
and therefore the drop of 10 cents in
that section was not necessary. 1t is
the Western Refinery which desires to
see an increase in the sale of beet SUI
gar in Southern California, and not
Henry II. OXnard alone.
when the jobber in Los Angeles
wants to buy shipment of Oxnard or
Chino beet sugar he places his order
with the Western Refinery, and yet II
is claimed that Oxnard, Clark and the
Western Refinery interests are dis
tinct."