The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-19
WHY BEEF GROWERS
ARE UP IN ARMS
EccleSiasts Stop Delivery at
Factory in Order to, Get Bene'
fit of Shrinkage.
HELPS SWELL PROFITS
FOR SACCHARINE MAGNATES
Order to Stop Delivery at Sugar
Plants Means Big Sum for
Sugar BarOnS.

Whenever the ecclcsiasts who rake in
the titbcs in Utah feel that they need
more money. and this is their condition
all the time. they scheme and scheme
to bring this about without exciting
comment or causing rebellion among
those who pay in the l0 per cent of
their earnings or of the product Of
mine or farm. This beautiful fall
weather furnishes an opportunity by
which new graft can he worked, aud
that. too, under the guisc of over
production of farm product. which
supplies the people with sugar.
In special dispatch to The Tribune
from American Fork, dated October II,
and printed in The Tribune Monday. it
was announced that there was a glut
of beets at the Lehi sugar factory and
AT the substatioDs at Provo. Spanish
Fork and Springvilc, and that orders
would Issue Tuesday TO discontinue dig,
ging beets for ten DAYS. Continuing,
The dispatch says:
What Austin Says.
Superintendent George Austin says that
The beets were coming In al the rate OF
five OF six thousand tons per day. owing
to the fine weather and good condition
oI tnS TOaus, ana as the capacity OF the
Lehi plant is between one thousand and
twelve hundred tons per day. II would
only be a question or time until the beet
sheds would be beyond their capacity.
Under The contracts with the beet
growers the sugar company has the
right TO regulate the delivery until Octo-
her 20. so as. 10 avoid congestion, The
Tact that the farmers are held back at
diHerent times in the harvesting OF their
beet crops works hardship on them, and
some discomfort is heard among the
growers.
Mr. Austin also states that the deliv-
eries at me Garland factory are also un
usually heavy. and that he estimated
that the total tonnage OF the two plants
would run considerably over 200. .O0O tons
Tie Tactory also feels that the longer
ne neets are left IN the ground during
the type of weather which is now pre-
vailing. adds great deal 10 the value
OF tho sugar qualities, and this. aside
rom the congestion which heavy rush
OF deliveries causes. tends 10 make the
factories hold of as long as their con
Tracts will allow.
Occasion for Order,
Now that the bects have matured, OF
course the grower is anxious TO market
ms product as soon as possible. aud TO
take advantage of the beautiful
weather TO harvest ms crop. But he is
stopped from so dong. Why? An al
leged gIut at the sugar factories. The
eccleslasts, however. who run the sugar
factories at Lehi and Garland know
full we'll thai the farmers will dig their
oeets now know that. under directions
OF the sugar company, they Will pile the
beets up IN heaps and cover them with
dirt 10 protect the heets from freezing.
The grower does tins
Whenever the bects arc piled up ia
this manner there naturally follows a
shrlnksge in weight OF the beet. but
Inc saccharlne matter does not dj- |
mlnlsh; The sugar company therefore
gets all the saccharine originally in the
beet, while the grower gets il IN the |
neck IN the loss in weight, while the
sugar company gets the additional
profit. The shrinksge in weight is con
siderable at minimum; it is ) per
cent when the beets lay for a brief
while.
Benefits Sugar Trust
In the year 1908 there WAS produced
In Utah 46,6o5 tons of sugar. or 90, 800. |
'0OO pounds. This was obtained from |
|4OO,0O0 tons of beets in round numbers, |
OF, to be exact. 399,21S tons. Assuming |
that the product thus year will be the |
same as last year. 100000 tons; that |
there Will be the same average length |