The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-02-22
SUSPICION VOICED THAT AMALGA-
MATED MAY BE BEHIND Eff
FORTS TO BUY FARMS
BEET MEN STILL DEMAND RATE
OF So A TON
Indirect Suggestions Leads AssOcia-
tiOn to Believe Company VIII Make
Offer TO Compromised. A. Robin
son Offers Way to Meet the Issue.

That diplomatic indirection and in
ternational intrigue may mark the !
policy of the Amalgamated Sugar COM |
pany was the intimation of DR.. j. E. !
White, president of the Twin Falls
County Beet Growers association, at
a meeting in the Parish hall Saturday
which again voted to stand pat on a
demand for flat rate of eight dol
lars a ton. DR.. White said that the
committee appointed by the associa-
tion had received no direct offer from
the Amalgamated. Indirectly a sug-
gestion, which they had reason to be-
lieve had been inspired by the COM
pany, had come to them to the effect
that it might be possible to compro-
mise in such a way that eight dollars
would be paid for beets yielding sew
enteen per cent sugar, with a sliding
scale. Another matter had come to
his attention. Several real estate men
had camped on his trail wanting to
buy his land and had offered the flat
tering price of $500 an acre. He be-
lieved that the offer was made in be-
half of Japs and that they had the
backing of the company. He thought
: it possible that an effort was being
, made to get rid of the leaders in the
' fight for higher price.
The company claimed 5000 acres
4 already signed but had no such fig
ure If the organization would stand
n firm it would get what it demanded
n An employee Of the company, wher
v told by Mr.. Hays that the association
v was demanding eight dollars replied
!, Maybe you will get it." A few haC
n kicked over the traces and signed. bui
n the number who did so was small ant
r. if eighty per cent remained firm, the
l., victory would be won. A letter by {
n prominent beet raiser in Utah to E. ID
h Heston was read in which it was stat
ed that the most effective work in be
ic half of sugar raisers there had beer
d done through the farm bureau. The.
IN had accepted a rate of seven dollars
ton with a readiustment on the pull
question and other matters.
c. a. Robinson said that he wa
prepared to meet the situation unles
proper concessions were made. 1T
III figured that as Europe was eating u
l. its supply of seed wheat at the presen
time, when spring planting should be
p, gin the price of wheat was bound
go up. Even if peace negotiation
wv should begin now the men could nC
get back to work this year and wit
the removal of the submarine per
the price of wheat would go up rathe
w than down The improved credit
20 foreign nations and the reduced CO.
,,,s of insurance would still further boo
,ie the price. He had as a result of car
in full figuring determined that he wou
,as plant q recently purchased 100 acr'
,r1 in wheat unless the company shOu
o+s grant what he considered satisfactoi
~, prices. The committee had no defini
% information in regard to any propos
rt- on the part of the company to yiel
eo1 If as a matter of fact the cOmpal
should offer eight dollars for a seve
INF teen per cent beet, seven and hs
ate Ior a sixteen per cent cent pSee az
might be we'll for the people, who
lieve that our beets went we'll abo
the fifteen per cent test to cOnsid
the proposition seriously. Sugar b
gone up fifty cents within a week
JIh wholesale and would likely 90 mu
ilH higher, and sugar stocks had advaI
ed on the market The company h'
.,,- he understood, about 1000 acres sic