Arizona republican., 1913-10-02
SUGAR PLANTS
 FORM MERGER
Union of Colorado and the
 Glendale Plants Means Greater Activity in This Valley Where Plant Will
 Run Eight Months Yearly

\ merger of the Western Sugar and Land company and the South western Sugar and Land company was effected yesterday and the agree ment will be laid before the stock
 holders of the two companies at q meeting on November for ratifica- tion. The Western company is a
 Colorado concern of which President
 J. R. MKinnie and Vice President R.
 P Davie own a controlling share of
 the stock MT. Davie is president of
 the Southwestern company and MT.
 M Kinnie is vice president, but the
 stock is widely scattered
 The merger means greater activity
 in the manufacture of sugar in this
 valley. The new company will have
 capital of $6,0O0,000 At a cost of
 S50,0O0 it will add machinery to the
 Glendale plant for the manufacture
 of cane sugar
 The business of the company in
 Colorado will also be extended. It already has a plant at Grand June tion which has been in successful
 operation for several years and last year turned out 25O,00O bags Of sugar.
 It has sugar beet acreage of 11,50O acres. It is about to build a plant at Delta partly for the pro- tectiOn of itself against an invasion of the field and partly to take care of the surplus at Grand Junction.
 Sugar beet factories usually have to make a hard campaign for acreage but the campaign has long been over in Colorado since more acreage is offered than the company can handle
 In an interview yesterday, General Manager Culver of the Glen lale plant of the Southwestern company said that the plan was to secure q steady valley acreage and a large acreage of land in higher attitudes. The valley beets which mature earlier would first be disposed of and after them the beets raised on the uplands after which the sugar cane would be ready to handle This arrangement is expected to give the plant con- tinuous operation of eight months, twice as long as any sug5r-making plant in the United States Iuns in any year.
 The sugar cane industry has al- ready been begun by the Southwest ern company A tract of eighty three acres was put in beyond Glen dale and the cane is in q thriving It will yield 5000 tons of cane and that will he sufficient to plant 1900 acres next year. The planting is not done by seeding. But trenches are dug and the stalks of cane are laid in them and covered | up. From each joint shoots are put forth and form stools. From 1900 acres a yield of from 36.000 to 10000 may be reasonably expected. FN periments have shown that sugar cane raised in the Salt River valley from two to three per cent more sugar than Louisiana CT Texas cane and the tonnage per acre is fifty per cent greater.
 Mr Culver was asked what effect the new tariff would have on the sugar beet and domestic cane sugar He replied that many of the smaller concerns would be put out of business and undoubtedly the refiners would endeavor to cripple all of the plants
 The industry in this valley, MT. Culver said, was made secure by iso- latiOn. It is protected by ! freight rate of eighty-three cents a bag which in itself would be a profit if the sugar is manufactured on a sui large scale. Colorado is protected by a similar differential.
 Of the operations of the refiners, MT Culver said last May there was a low record for sugar. $4.20; it rose to $40 where it has since remained stationery. As to what the people may expect from the refiners and free sugar Mir. Gull yer said that when raw shgar is scarce the refiners put the price up. Two years ago last fall, before beet sugar began coming in the price of refined sugar rose to $7 a bag but after the beet sugar entered the mar ket it was pushed down steadily.
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