The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-04
OPEN LETTER
TO SUGAR
PEOPLE

The following opsn letter TO DS'lu
Eccles from a committee OF farmers
u hose names arc attached. has peeI
presented for publication:
ogden. March l, ls10.-Thc chiei
objections which Mr. Eccles offers III
refusing 10 comply With the farmers
request that they be paid hignef
price for sugar bects. also a NOR
favorable contract In raising and &c
liy ering same 10 tho sugar factory
is that tho cost OF making sugar II
so great. and the profits so small, IND.
they cannot possibly pay what inc
farmers arc asking for their sugar
heets. In fact you say the factory
will stop running rather than pay
tho price asked for. As 10 pillng the
beets on the ground your reply was.
That II the farmer should get 10 the
station one-half hour before the
train arrives. and four or five loads
OF beets are piled on the ground. and
a day or so lator another Few ioaoe
arc tbrorn OH tho same pile. and so
continue. the result Will be that thc
whole pile Will be practically spoiled,
and unfit for use.
Now as 10 the first item. N IL Is
true that the Sugar company cannot
afford 10 pay the price asked for
and will be driven to tho wall in case
such IS attempted then the farmers
ere doing wrong in insisting that such
price be paid The factory should
not only pay n reasonable dividend.
il should also make the investment
fairly secure But what the farmer
would like to know is. that. while
other sugar companies are paying
from $47S 10 $500 per ton for sugar
bects, why cannot tho Amalgamate1
! Sugar company pay us Si.1o per ton
for sugar bccts Of the same quality.
As evidence that other sugar COM
ranlcs are paving as stated above We
submit tho following:
The Field and Farm. of Denver
says: The sugar trust has come
! through With better price for beets
10 the growers OF the Arkansas val
| lev and we cannot understand why
other folks In the state could not have
been given as good a deal, The Ar
kansas valley scale for this season Is
as follows: For beets not less than
L. per cent and up to li.9 per cent.
/, $500: not less than Is per cent. and
up TO l59 per cent. so.25; not less
than 10 per cent and up TO l6.9 per
cent, $3.50: not less than u per
cent and up TO 1I.9 per cent. 1915:
not less than rs per cent, and up TO
1s.9. $500. and 25 cents for each ad
o!tionel per cent above 1879 per cent
This sliding scale will induce tho
farmers to put in their best licks and
get better crops"
From the Deserct News, Wyominc
Items:
"BlTlings Sugar Factory Will Pay
$500 for Bects.
"Cowley, Wyoming. Jan 1.-Mr
Guernsey, superintendent of The Bll
liugs sugar Factory, and the iiclC
chemist. held meeting Monday
night with the farmers here, As ;
further induccment 10 the beet grow
ers, the price has been advanced tC
$500 per Ton. Prospects are goot
for a large acreage here this year
Some OF tho leading men who have
not grown beets heretofore bayc dc
clared their intentions 10 grow then
this year"
date Of Feb. II, We copy the follow
i5g:
Farmers here, (Cowley). are OF
feTed $500 per ton F o. b. cars her
for sugar beets by the Billings Suga
company and seed at 10 cents pc
pound"
Also. Mr.. Eccles. We call your al
tention 10 a certain Item in the oG
den STANDARD OF not many years aS'
wherein we read of the First Nation
al bank buying up the sugar of tn
Amalgamated Sugar company 10
about $500 per sack. Before maxim.
this sale, however. We understand
the Sugar company declared I
per cent dividend TO It's stockholC
ers.
Also. the information comes froG
Idaho, that the Utah Sugar compan
is paving Si.75 per ton F. O B To
cars In Idaho
When the farmers committee val
ed 90 YOU, II was claimed that III
Colorado sugar beet Is superior I
, The Utnh sugar beet, and that the
| raised fewer tons TO the acre.
reipy 10 this claim VIC desire 10 sal
that VIC have farmers here who hav
lived and farmed in Colorado.
ers' union of Hooper farmed nea
Grand Junction for about twelve year
raised beets for the Grand Junctlo
factory and he smiles at such
, report. He will he willing 10 70 o
the witness stand, IL necessary, an
j testify that fields of forty acres nve
! age about twenty.four tons TO III
\ acre. and that he has seen larg,
beets that were grown in COLORADO
i than any he over sE,w that wer
J grown In Utah. And the Sugar cor
I pany did not COMPLAIN at this ethe
Why. says he. the factory there
q largo, and they are we'll able 10 tab
core of all tho bects the farmers ca
4 SroU. without trouble OF delay in r
II ceivine them Now this man h:
\ fsrmed in Hooper for the last tyo
q three years. and raised sugar bee
too. Astonishing all this
81 Now. Mr. Ecclcs. since they n
n paving s4.7o per ton In Idaho So
n In Wyoming $500 IN Colorado.
s. Q. n. the cars. at least in Idaho an
N WyoDing, and. perhaps Colorado.
Il u possible that $3.50 is all You ca
81 pay for the same quality Of bee
and the farmer paw the freight
II Nov, IL above statements are i'm
= aud general in their application ,
3 ihey appear 10 be. and you wou
z prefer shutting the factory dow
rather than take a reasonable moi
n rs others are. or seem "a be oul