Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1911-02-01
ONLY 10 PER CENT
SUGAR EXTRACTION
AMALGAMATED COMPANY COR.
RECTS SOME MISTAKEN ID
EAs ABOUT REFINING.

sugar beets might be grown in wal
Iowa county successfully, the writer
of this article thought the farmers
would net grow beets unless the SUI
gar Company would pay the right
price for them. The writer said he
had been informed by a man work
ing for the Sugar Company that an
extraction of 300 pounds of sugar is
had from each ton of beets and there
fore ton of beats should bring to
tEe grower $500.
In the first place the gentleman
giving your correspondent the inform
alton was either ignorant of the facts
or otherwise he misstIted them. We
Will Srant the former which, how
ever, is no compliment. We take it
thai the writer of the said article
really "a ended it for the good of
yoIr county but had he really want
ed TO get at the bottom of the facts
before going into print he could
hdv easily done so for the reason
our manager, Mr.. Bramwell, has al
ways been within reach from whom
the truth could have been had.
We are not plunglng into print to
censure but to appnse your many
readers OF what is being done and at
least TO prove that we are playing
fair and trying to do the right thing.
In 1909 we harvested 2,000,6 ,656
pounds of sugar beets from which
We made 201,SS0 pounds of sugar
or little over ten percent eXtrac-
tlon, 1t cost us 1925 per bag of one
hundred pounds to run the beets
through the factory, an expense the
said writer seemingly overlooked al
together. The beets cost us $5.56 per
ton in the sheds. The price of sugar
today is $4.70 per hundred-SanFran
cisco base. The price of sugar fluc
yates some little, of course, but not
much. Anyway we are safe in say
ing that the average price will not
exceed $500 per bag. 1t may be a
new thought to some, but the fact
is that in the last, ten years-during
which time eatables of nearly all kinds
have gone higher and higher i'm price
sugar has not advanced, but on the
other hand has declined right along.
We have not the figures of beets har-
vested and cut for the year 1910 but
the results will be about the same as
above set out. While the percent of
sugar in the beets was little high
er, the price of labor, etc, We're cor
respondingly higher The foregoing
statements can easily be verified by
our office records, which give the
Information item by item.
1t was stated by the said writer
that if the Sugar company would buy
beets ON a sliding scale that the peo-
pie would feel better and might grow
beets. Alright, MIR. Man, we are will
ing to accept this proposition and as
an item of information we give the
following table which lis in use by
the American Sugar Beet Co. of
Chino, California, The Pacific Sugar
Corporation, The Southern C3lifor-
MIA Sugar Co. and the Losa.ametus
Sugar Co.:
II per cent beets $3.50 per ton; II
per cent beets 1915 per ton; 13 per
cent beets $4J0O per ton; IA per cent
beets S4.25 per ton; Is per cent beet!
$3.50 per ton; 16 per cent beets
$3.50 per ton; II per cent beets $5.1O
per ton; IS per cent beets $5.4O per
ton; 10 per cent beets $50 pet ton,
and so on up.
The facts are that when you con
sider the quality of the beets, we pa,
more for beets than any other com
pany in the country. We pay $3.50
f. o. b. cars at any loading station
Now with these figures in hand your
correspondent and all others can
easily see just where the truth is an
what is what. The facts are we have
always believed that sugar beets can
be grown 10 a profit in Wallowa coun
ty and we believe so still. After all
1t is a plain matter of business. we
cannot grow enough beets ourselves
to make the factory pay. If the peo
pie in your territory want our indus
try and will grow beets we shall do
our best to be fair and honest, al
ways being willing to meet the farm
ers half way-on the other hand If IN
dividual growers cannot be had We
will have TO withdraw from the ter
ritory and cease operations there
and no harm done. There Is every In
dication that the price Of hay and
grain will be greatly reduced. while
the beet crop is. sold before even
the seed 10 planted, and at an agreed