The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-14

Sugar Is rs cents a pound here. In
The height OF the canning season.
In some states u Is anywhere from
~ to 56 cents and you have 10 brink
severe pressure to bear on the grover
60 get y couple OF pounds at that
price.
EVERY TOURIST
CARRIES OUT SUGAR
Every tourist who passes through
Denver and hears OF tho l5-ccnt
sugar. carries away material for an
orgy OF fruit canning
A trainioad OF business men came
here recently on trade excursion
from Kansas City. Mo. At home they
had been trying In vain TO get their
wives enough sugar at 81 cents to
put up strawberries.
When they learned the Denver
price. they forgot all about business
and put In their visit going from
grocery to grocery. buying dollars
worth at each place. and. when they
went home with bags. suitcascs and
pockets buiging. they looked like a
bunch OF out-of-scason Santa
Clauses.
Colorado Is not worrying about the
sugar that Is bootlcgged for personal
-. however. II produces more beet
sugar than any other state In the
Union, and visitors can help them
oslves TO a dollars worth or so with.
out seriously depicting the supply,
But when spectators buy and hoard
until they have a quantity and then
take II out OF the state to sell at
shortage prices. that's different
matter.
TRIEs To HEAD OFT
REGULATORS
II was to head these spectators
off that u. 4. District Attorney
Harry II. Tcdrow Of Denver. brought
suit recently under the boarding
clause OF the Lever act. on the
Ufound that they were buying UP
more sugar than they could use
u. s. District Judge Robert r.
Lewis. however. has just ruled
against him. The decision declared
that the attempt TO keep Colorado
sugar In Colorado was provincial"
This II only one angle Of the Colo
gAdo sugar situation. which has
more angles than q piece of rock
lnndy.
The Great Western Sugar Com.
.pany. the largest OF the Colorado
0est sugar companies. supplies the
morthern part OF the state. and II IL
an this territory that the i5ccnt
Dg1co rules. In other sections q, IL
higher. though stili not as high as
- nOn-sugar producing states.
. Credit 10 claimed for the Grca,
western Company by II. Mendeison.
- consulting agriculturiss. for keep
ng down tho price and for prevent.
- speculation
61oCER MAKES Size
NM H. POUNDS
Sugar stays at IS centS" Men
eDo1Don says. because we sell at a
9rtce that enables the retailer to sell
sat that price. We get sf..so per
hundred from the jobbcr: the jobter
9sts about Sf3.so from the grocer
and the grocer gets SIS from the
consumer"
Unofficial agreements, backed by
ths fear Of not getting sugar from
The company. hold large exports In
check. he intimatcd.
We try to supply our own terri.
Tory" he says. by holding the sugar
manufactured In three month. 80 as
to sell II over a ismonth period
We are not boarding. VIC want to sell
the sugar. but we do not want to sell
u all at once and let other people
set hold Of It and take II back cas-,
and profiteer on IT,"
Sun another explanation for rs.
cent sugar Is given by the farmers
who grow the bcets.
The Great Western keeps the
price OWN In Its territory" expiains
J. H. Golden. secretary OF the Noun.
tain States Beet Growers associa.
ton. to keep the farmers from de-
manding a fair price for their beet.
* Is making many times more than
the whole state OF Colorado can con.
sumo, and Is selling the balance out
eade at enormous prices.
LOSING MONEY,
FARMERS CLAIM
Data taken from Poor's and
4oody's Manuals OF Industr,als
show that the dividends OF the
Great Western in 1918 and 1919 to
tailed 81 per cent in each year, and
mat the total dividends between 1910
and 1919 have been s5o.7s0.s4o.
AT the same time, farmers have
Deem steadily losing money on beets.
70 such an extent that those who
have tried II for few years are
putting In other crops. and. in order
70 Keep up the acreage. the com.
panies are obliged continually 20 in.
duce new farmers TO plant beta n
the price Of sugar went I'd I'm the
Great Westerns territory. IL would
have to pay more for beets than II
has any idea OF doing"