Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-21
Will FIGHT THE TRUST
COLORADO SUGAR men
WILL BE INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT FACTORS WILL EN-.
TER WESTERN FlElD-THE
WHOLESALE GROCER
INTERESTS.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. THE beet
sugar men OF Colorado and other west
ern states will be asked to cooperate
in a battle with the sugar trust. Men
of ample capital are back of the move
ment and they propose TO erect rein.
cries throughout che sugar beet coun-
try and eudcavOr to secure so large an
output that they will be on an equal
footing with the trust.
The movement Is Of the most i'm
pOrtanCe TO Colorado, where the sugar
industry has been endangered by the
encroaChmnt Of the trust.
Forty thousand barrels of sugar are
consumed daily in this country. The
importance of the project Is indicated
| by the fact that the four new plants
now being made ready for operation
will have a UaiIy capacity of 10000 bar
rels. Forty per cent of the sugar out
put will be placed beyond control OF
the trust.
These independent concerns have
been started by the wholesale grocery
NhNNlNoNo ~ hluNNNi VI BiON'NNNh aht
profit. Thus far there Is no definite
plan to unite them; but representa-
lives OF the trust say frankly that IL
will assert its supremacy at any cost
and that, II the independents attempt
to enter the open market, a rate-cut.
ting war will be begun and carried 10
finish. The natural result Of such an
attack would be the consolidation Of
the new concern into a rival trust or
their absorption by the greater COM
| bination.
Since the establishment of the trust
in 1887, and its reorganization into the
American Sugar Refining company,
thereby obtaining control of twenty
rehneries In New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, New Orleans, st. Louis, San
Francisco and elsewhere, there have
been numerous attempts to manufac-
ture refined sugar independently of the
trust; but that great commercial in
stitution, with a capital Of $4,000, 900,
and reserve at times reaching 70
$50 000, 900, either absorbed the weaker
Irefneries or crushed them out OF ex-
istence, with the exception OF the big
Arbuckle concern.
This action, aimed at the beet sugar
industry of the west hit the whole,
sale distributors OF the Atlantic sea.
board, and rendered 1t impossible fol
them to handle goods save al loss.
II was also charged that the trus
was selling indirectly its sugar to spec
Tally favored importers in order TO dis
courage importations. And, finally
wholesale grucers and agents declared
that agents Of the trust were canvas
sign yearly contracts 10 take one hun
bred per cent OF their supplies from III,
trust, giving a rebate Of one per cent.
which placed the handling OF sugar dis
tributed to these concerns beyond
margin OF profit for the middlemen.
The feeling Of resentment cause,
Adolph Segal to erect a model refiner'
Of 1000 barrels day capacity In Phil
J adelphia and II met with encourage
mont
J The refinery Is now complete, an
the present owners declare that II
To be started up az one,
! Meanwhile other merchants IN Nol
n YORK ana Cleveland began the rou
: strurtiou oi The knirkeliorker rohn
I cry NJ 5000 barrels capacity ~ Edgr
. water n = an tho Hudson The con
|pany is backed by some ui lho hraNlr'
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