The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-22
GOOD PAY FOR BEETs.

The beetraiser i'm Utah Will read with
good deal of interest the testimony
of Mr.. Chester :. Morey of Denver,
president of the Great Western Sugar
Company. delivered in New York in
the Government investigation of the
Sugar Trust The special point of in
tcrest To bcctraiscrs in Utah in Mr.. Mo.
rev 6 testimony is where he stated that
his company pays $3.50 per ton for
sugar bects of all grades, and should
the amount of sugar be moro than nj
teen degrees. the farmer gets five cents
additional for his bccts for every ad-
ditional half Of ono degree in the sac
charine quality of his bects. The yield
per acre is about twelve tons; there
fore. the farmers in the vicinity of Fort
Collins. Greeley, and all that region,
get S66 an acre for raising sugar beets,
and if they can increase the quality OF
their sugar bcctS to greater saccha-
rino strength than fifteen degrees, they
Will get ten cents 4 ton additional Tor
every degree added.
Ii is understood that the Great West
crn company. of which Mr., Morey is
president. is making good proht all the
time at the rate of payments that his
company makes to the farmers for their
sugar beets; and indeed it looks as
though he could well afford TO paw the
amount stated, since tho ton of bects
at the standard degree of saccharine
quality will yield three hundred pounds
of sugar
The American people rejoice to sec
the sugar beet industry flourish, and to
see the great increase that 1t is max
ing This increase does not, to he sure
keen up with the increase OF demand
for sugar in this country. since we have
to import more and more sugar every
wear. but it affords large employment
to farmers, and the factories AFFORD
much employment in their busy season
to considerable numbers of wage-carn'
ers. According to the policy of protec-
tion. which is undoubtedly the true pol
icy for anv country to pursue, 1T Is
better for people to be self-support-
ing. to raise what they need and con
sumo. especially when they can get
home supplies in sufficient quantity and
at economic rates,
Colorado seems to be somewhat ahead
Of Utah IN this matter Of raising sugar
beets. and the prices paid to farmers
for their products. But no doubt utah
will catch up with Colorado, and even
surpass it in time, because our valleys
are more productive, wo have plenty of
labor. and the improvements in ma
chinery can be bad just as we'll IN
Utah as anywhere else in the world.
Sugar production is a great and grow
ing industry in the United States, es-
pecially in its production from beets.
The cane product Of Louisiana has
probably reached about its limit; but
there would appear to be no limit upon
the production of beet sugar; and AS
il is a profitable production, as it gives
employment 10 vast numbers of people,
as the production is q commodity ca,
pcrly sought all over the world. and is
taken in such vast quantities that even
the rapid gain in production docs not
keen pace with the gain in demand in
the United States, it is a clear case that
beet sugar production is a vast benefit
to the whole people, and it should be
made as profitable to the beetraisers,
to the sugarmakers, and to the commu'
nitv. all in a common interest, as 1T
is possible to make it. And so the
triple cooperation will be for the great
est benefit of all.