The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-23
EHEAP SUGAR NOT
| TO RETURN SOON
,.ooe of Cars-Light Sup
nlv of Beets and Big
Demand Reason.
PRICE WILL ADVANCE
ooisiaaa Beet Growers Not
Able to Provide Enough =
for This Country.

We, the railroads short on cars.
,he sugAr beet crop peioW me
-. an account Oh eAcesiEe
t.n Tulslus with the sweet
".t have no reason 10 anticipate
pO'', ,,crease OF the sugar supply on
,ncal market for some Time. ac-
T.. ,'or 20 i ). Davenport, OF the
In sanders Wholesale Grocery
nsny The situation mas not
Bsangrd ma ,crially from what II was
"ysral weeks ago he said.
-enIrm,ants OF sugar are reaching
i., only ia spasmodic lots,' said
naypnport This ] understand
na,tly due to Inadequate shipping
in,,les II the government could
,,nisb more cars The situation
'irht be relieved. Then again the
OF bects from which sugar IL
I,ado has been impaired because OF
{bs heavy rainfall in the beet DIS
L-lcts OF the west
90 far as the price Is concerned.
would seem that the market Is
Zsrt,ln 10 experience II sharp I'd
,,cs The government has permit
ed the refiners TO put IA price or IL
&sn,s who!esale on Louisiana cane
khIch will make 1t cost about ~
{sr,. on the table. While beet
Rugar is still retailing at II IA cents
Ibsre is every reason 10 believe inst
3he prlce will be advanced common
{nrats with the new price OF can.
klxar, The price is OF about ~ much
koncern now as tho supply,
4. ssfEI
boston Transcript recently sized up
HE situation as follows:
Some People May Go Without
another anomaly has been in
Aectsd INTO the sugar situation by tho
I Announcement that 100000 Oong)
(on, or s2,iO0 900 pounds of Louis
Rana cane sugar will be offered 10
Retailers at 49, cents n pound. With
lhe profit allowed at present on
kugat In the retail trade. this means
vs TO ?5 cents pound for refined
Louisiana sugar at the table.
THE amount OF available Louis
lana sugar is as n drop In tho bucket
howard supplying che needs OF the
people OF the United States, being a
kmal fraction less than I % ounces
IL NN vi i''i
kuch shiploads as arrive a lmost daJly
IN Boston. The remainder of the
supply. estimated at "a pounds per
tapita, must come from the beet
lgsar. mostly produced In the United
Bates and the cane sugar imported
Rom Cuba and other West Indian
|slands. This Wes, Indian sugar has
been selling to the retailers at
lround fss2 per hundred pounds,
with a price limit. to the consumer.
pt II cents a pound. refined. EN-.
erts connected with the custom
house say there is no way in which
fe'lned sugar produced from cane
grown In Louisiana can be distin-
pushed from refined sugar pro-
tnced from cane grown in Cuba
Does not this open up great posi-
b!l;y for general and fraudulent
Increase In the price OF refined
ugar-the ordinary granulated
ugar OF commerce-and IL not this
he basis OF the confident predic-
ion OF speculative brokers who have
been flooding New =, England with
Propaganda to the effect that sugar
Will sell az 25 cents a pound after
anuarS |? How many times 100,-
20 tons OF Cuban sugar or other
west Indian sugar can there be sold
the higher price, under the cam
nhased name OF Louisiana ?" All
hat stands In tho way is the sugar
EQUALIZATION board, which has more
man intlmated that It is dcsirous OF
sanding from under" at the end
p. me year.
what reason can there he for al
VNihg refined Louisiana cane sugar
oe sold 10 retailers for lSis cents
pound. and refined Cuban sugar
fents1 ~ ''-
Win the gates thrown open so
ue 70 fraud, speculation and ex.
uoh, the only remedy would seem
W oe early passage OF the Dallin-
uii 10 prevent export OF any
sM rom the United States, and
L'el regulation OF prices without so
zen, aen, an anomaly as the present