The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-23
SUGAR SHORTAGE
seen FOR REST
OF CAN SEASON
New Crop, Although Plentiful,
Will Come on Market Too
Late for Relief.
By WILLIAM r. SANBoRN

That we are to have a bountiful crop
of beet sugar has no effect whatever
upon present conditions or prices,
When beet sugar finally reaches us in
quantity the canning season will be
closed incident, for but little beet
sugar will reach the market until No
vember, or late October. About half OF
the Cuban sugar crop has already been
marketed and not surplus pound has
been so far accumulated in this coun-
try. We are informed that refined
sugar is still very hard to obtain and
that orders now being placed by west
ern jobbers are for September deliv-
cry, as refners will make no promise
of earlier shipment
We shall, however, receive sugar In
the interim, because wholesalers have
anticipated their wants, at least as far
as possible. But large consumers
everywhere are feeling the pinch, such
as bottlers, candy manufacturers, etc.
We doubt If any retailer can buy to
exceed two bags of sugar at any
wholesalesale house in Richmond to-
day. During the past week several
Chicago houses were entirely out of
sugar, with practically no supplies in
transit. The demand has been in ex-
cess of the capacity of the refiners to
produce, right in the heart Of the. berry
and peach canning season.
Packers Sell Canneries.
The most interesting and important
bit of news with reference to food
products that has been printed in
many moons, is the authoritative an
nouncement that the Austin-NichOls
company, New York wholesale grocers
nave purchased all the cannerieS
fishery plants and other grocery
interests of Wilson & Company, OF
Chicago 1t may be that Wilson q
Company have read the handwriting
on the wall, at all events 1t can now
be stated that the Austin-Nichols com
pany have purchased all the fish, 1rls'
and vegetable canning plants. brands
trademarks, and a considerable por
ton of the dstributive facilities OF the
Chicago houses.
Wilson & Company are in future tC
devote their attention to meat anC
packing house products, exclusively
which is in line with what the whole
sale grocery trade has been demand
ing. and with what thoughtful mer
have been hopeful of seeing brought
about by legislature, with regard tc
all the packers.
by Wilson & Company is that of the
Armour house, which is reported to b%
taking over the Seacoast Canning com
pany, of Eastport, Maine. In this con
nection it is also Of interest to note
the comment of the editor Of the East
port Sentinel who says: "Rumors con
tinue to spread concerning trans
fer of the SeacoaSt Canning Com
pany's holdings to Armour & Com
pany, of which the Booth Fisheries
said to be a subsidiary"
The Booth Fisheries is a great in
stitution in itself, and if a subsidiar,
of the Armour company. this is fur
Their proof that the packers are amin:
at the control of the nations food
In support of that contention let u
consider just what Wilson & Compan,
are transferring to Austin-Nichols. A6
cording to the head of the latter cor
Germ this consists of:
All the grocery packing bushes
of Wilson & Company, and its allie
companies, including the entire bus
ness of the Fame Canning Company
which operates a number OF lmpor1
ant vegetable canning plants in tn
Middle West; and also the controllin
interest owned by Wilson & Compan
in the Wilson Fisheries Compan!
which operates large and importan
salmon packing and fish industries o
the Pacific coast and Alaska"
Coffee Prices Top Heavy.
Contrary to the general lmpressio
there has been no material advanC
in the price of coffee for three or fou
weeks, at wholesale; nor has Their
been any decline. The market ha