The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-26
HOME GROWN SUGAR
SAVING MILLIONS
TO CONSUMERS
Refiner's Prices on Imported Product
Forced to Low Level of the Year in
Every Part of Country by Competition
of the New Domestic Crop.

of the sugar industry. American
grown beet sugar is now on sale in
every state of the Union with the
POSSIBLE exception of Louisiana.
During the past few weeks the
price of sugar in all parts of the
United States has declined to the
lowest point 1t has reached iuting
the entire year.
There is very direct and import
ant connection between these two
facts.
Beet sugar is produced by sixty
six separate factories scattered
across the country from Ohio and
Michigan to the Pacific coast. The
Eastern factories did not begin the
seasons operation of extracting sug-
ar from the beets until October ].
The output of these factories is just
coming upon the market. In Cali
fornia, however, the beet sugar fac
tories began operating in August. A
few OF them opened as early as July.
California Sugar Comes East
During the latter part of August,
the product of these California sugar
factories began to be offered in At
lantic coast cities. Although freight
charges for the transcontlnental trip
are heavy, the California sugar pro-
ducers proceeded to undersel the
imported sugar handled by the big
seaboard sugar refiners by twenty to
thirty points-that is, twenty to thir-
~ cents a hundred pounds--in such
cities as Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, where beet sugar except
for occasional insignificant ship
ments. has been almost unknown
heretofore. In Chicago and other in
terror cities the gap between tle
price of imported sugar and that ask
ed for the home grown product was
even greater than on the Atlantic
coast amounting ii thirty-hve and for
ty cents hundred pounds.
Beet Competition Brings Down
Prices
The effect of this widespread and
aggressive competition was immedi-
ate. Throughout the summer from
the beginning of May to the end of
July, when there was practically no
American grown sugar upon the mar
ket, the big refiners of imported SUI
gar lad held the price steadily at
six cents a pound With the custom
airy two per cent discount which Is
allowed for cash purchases, tails made
the lowest cash price Of granulated
sugar at the refnelies 5.SS cents n
pound. With the appearance of Cal
isornia sugar in the Eastern mar
ket the refiners price at the end Of
August had declined to 5.39 ceats
a pound, approximately half cent
lower than It had been throughout
the summer. During the following
month. as more and more home
Grown sugar came upon the market,
the Price OF the imported sugar of
the refners fell still further. At
the end Of September the net cash
P,clatjon was 4 1902 cents pound
more than cent a pound less than
II had been during the summer
months. when the rehners AMI their
foreign grown sugar were in undiS-
nutcd control OF the market.
AS sugar grown from American
soil invaded one big Eastern city af-
ter another the same process went on
in each, Wholesale and retail pric-
es declined from nalf a cent to a
cent a pound. Grocers who had been
selling fifteen to sixteen pounds Of
sugar for a dollar began to put out
advertisements offering eighteen and
twenty pounds for a dollar. The eff
feet was so sudden and so marked
that newspapers which ordinarily pay
little attention to the price of sugar
printed articles calling attention to
the service that was being rendered
to consumers by domestic sugar.
That the repeated cuts In prices
made by the big refiners were due &c
the competition of American grown
sugar is acknowledged in trade cir
Giles. Willett G. Gray's Sugar Trade
Journal, in its issue of September 80
said
IF the cane refined Is to hold III
usual markets at this season, Its quo
tation must continue TO decrease un
til the domestic beet sellers find !
expedient to withdraw from the ex
IRENE Eastern markets, as has beer
their custom in former years, ant
will likely be necessary in the pres
ent season unless an unusual amour
% orders for refined comes in iron
Europe to relieve the cane rehners