The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-05-27
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g. q market to be found fer thii
liner, ny production? Surely there
ia a limit to the amount OF fruit ina
the American people can consume
Even last year saw an over produc
tion of the apple crop of Washington
and Oregon. Furthermore, with the
proposed heavy cut in tariff rates, the
products Of the California groves VIII
come into direct competition with the
cheap importations from the Mediter'
raneap. Cuba and other tropical ana
semi tropical countries.
The one great staple for which
there Is a constantly expanding mar
ket IA sugar. The United States i'm
ports nc the present time nearly T.
OOO. 900 tons of sugar per annum from
foreign countries. practically all from
Cuba. Sugar is staple for which
there Is always market, and II nee
essary II can be stored for long per-
iods with little deterioration. Fur
thermore, beet sugar IL Q finished
product representing only about If
teen per cent of the weight OF the
raw material from which 1t is pro
duced: whereas, in the case of fruit,
alfalfa, and grain crops, high freight
charges to the Eastern markets must
be paid on the entire weight Of the
commodity Just as it comes from the
orchard or the field.
Il has been demonstrated by years
OF experience that no section OF the
United States, in fact no country in
the world, is better adapted to the
cultivation of the sugar beet than are
the irrigated lands of the west.
The production of sugar beets UNI
der irrigation for the first time in the
worlds history was commenced in
Utah in 1891, and so successfully has
Il been done that seventy per cent of
the total beet sugar output of the
United States is now produced in the
western States under irrigation.
II has been demonstrated also that
the cultivation of sugar beets in ro-
tation with alfalfa and grain crops
increases the yield of the latter to
such an extent as to make the pro
duction of cereals profitable even with
the high cost of irrigation. The re-
suit is that while few new beet fac
tories have been built within the past
FIVE years, the beet acreage has in.
some localities the factories have
been compelled to turn away con-
tracts for beets.
II sugar Is placed on the free list.
either now or three years hence, as
proposed, It will give the Eastern
can redners, who import and now pay
duty on their raw material, the abso-
lutte power to depress prices below
the cost of the production of sugar
beets as well as Louisiana cane. THIS
they are anxious to do, as they are
alarmed at the encroachment of beet
sugar In the Eastern markets. For
several months of each year, when
beet sugar comes on the market, the
big refiners either have to reduce the
price of refined sugar, or withdraw
from the trade altogether until the
beet sugar Is disposed of, all OF which
tends to the lowering of prices ~
the consumer.
Free sugar in three years will be
just as effective death warrant for
the domestic sugar industry as
though the execution took pace I'm.
mediately, the only difference being
that more time is allowed for the
funeral arrangements. While the cost
OF production is gradually decreasing
and would further decrease with a
larger output, three years will make
no appreciable difference under ex.
listing conditions. At the present
time the eastern rehners are utiliz,
ing less than half the productive ca.
pacity OF their plants and It will be
a simple matter for them to deal a
death blow to the domestic produc,
ton Of sugar as they will have the
assurance OF an absolute monopoly
as soon as the domestic industry Is
annihiated
In order that the beet sugar indus
try may expand and become a greater
factor in the development OF the west
new factories must be built. The bee
growers themselves, as a rule ar,
pioneers and whatever capital the
possess Is required in the improve
ment OF their lands. Outside capita
cannot be secured for the erection c
large factories after free sugar ha
given the eastern refiner a monopoli
tic control of market conditions. Tn
inevitable result will be not only Il
abandonment of many OF the preseI
factoriaa hut a. will ha tba dnui