The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

! $4,000 were paid on the stock This
| year will equal or exceed that record.
Last year the farmers were paid for
their beets 50. 000, 000 This wear a still
larger sum win be paid out for beets.
Last year $1.000.000 was paid out in
wages of operators and employees at the
different factories. Upward of 100 600
] tons OF coal was consumed in extract
| ing the sugar from the beets Upward
of $4,000 tons Of lime rock was used.
This was quarried in the vicinity of the
factories giving rise to new industry
Upward of 81 .000.0 00 was paid to the
railroad companies for transporting the
raw materials 10 the factories and in
transporting the refined sugar to mar
ket.
In addition to all this. the pulp, the
remains of the beet after the sugar has
been extracted. makes excellent cattle
feed. 1t is disposed of to cattle grow
ers. and aids materially in this branch
of industry.
Sugar by TrainIoad.
These nine factories running at ca
pacity are capable of slicing 5000 tons
of beets each day. This means 200 car
loads of beets a day. Allowing twenty
ears TO the train. this would mean ten
trains unloaded at the factories each
day. The output of these nine facto-
ries would load a train with refined
sugar for each working day OF the year
The taxable value of every acre of
land in the vicinity of these factories
has been increased as a result of this
industry. Every man and woman in the
two states has been benefited either di-
rectly or Indirectly. The Utah Idaho
Sugar company Is also the owner of the
Bear River canal, which is irrisatinr
10000 acres of fine land in northern
Utah. X has also a great power station
in Bear River canyon, and is furnish
ing power even for Salt Lake City
through the Utah Light & Power COM
pany.
1t is not possible to compare the
business of this year with that OF last
year, for the reason that the season 5
crop has not been entirely disposed of
AT many points beets are still piled up
in great stacks awaiting transportation
to the factories. The early storms. too
made 1t difficult to harvest the crop. so
that In some instances beets are still
in the ground. But all authorities agree
that 1908 was the banner year in the
raising OF beets. The abundance of
rain throughout a great portion of the
| season and the freedom from insects
made the crop good one. II was a
profitable crop for the farmers. and has
resulted in placing large sums of money
in circulation in the districts where the
factories are located.
Afraid of Free Trade.
There is anxiety among those inter-
ested in the beet sugar industry over
| the possibility of the removal of the
import duty on Philippine and Cuban
cane sugar, and the admission to this
| country of that sugar free of tariff. It
| Is argued here that this would mean
I the death of the beet sugar industry in
| the west as it would be impossible to
( produce beet sugar i'm competition with
] this cheaper sugar from the islands.
! This is assigned as the reason why no
new factories have been projected for
I Utah or Idaho 1t is pointed out that
/ this danger of free cane sugar has
made capital timid. and that no more
| viii be invested in beet sugar factories
i,until this tariff question is disposed of.
What VIII be done. therefore, In the
way Of expanding the industry next
year or I'm the years Immediately to
follow is not certain. Under the pres-
ent conditions the industry is certain
TO grow rapidly, because of the large