The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-13

lD6lf factory there anu were Wrllln6
beet contracts on the IS basis and
he had spent thirty days trying to
forestall them and had at last sue
ceeded and forced them out. He
! said~he had to use all the influence
at his command to do it, but that
he had succeeded He said it would
be extremely disastrous to let any
other factory come in and pay IS
for beets in Idaho, because if that
were done, they too, would have to
pay IS ton, and that would cut
down their profits.
Told Different Stories
He told me there would be no
profit if they paid SAFE per ton. He
wrote Havemeyer this other stuff,
and on the witness stand under oath
he admitted that it was his own let
ter and that he wrote it.
To make matters worse, he wrote
other letters to Havemeyer, and said
they were not getting into Idaho
much with their sugar sales except
ing where the freight rates were
favorable, but that they did not want
any other company to get in and
run the price of beets up and supply
sugar to population in Idaho that
might later become their own field
ne spoke of the man who was pro-
noting the Blackfoot factory (Soren
Jensen) and said it was to be re-
GREETED that this man was succeeding
and was actually buying and ship
ping machinery for the Blackfoot
factory, and that he had contracted
1000 acres Of beets there. He said
it was not interfering at all with
their acreage, (at Idaho Falls) but
that they must if possible secure
control Of the factory if it went in
at. Blackfoot. All tbs was not so
contemplate in itself until it is CON
sidered in connection with some
thing that happened long before that
which / want to bring to your atten-
ton. ~ r.l~@
Poor People Established 1t
About thirty years ago the Nor
mon people OF Utah raised 5000, 900
by popular subscription to start in
the sugar business in Utah. That
was not enough to make a successful
start, and the Mormon church
pledged it's credit for loan of $780,
900, President Woodruff signing the
bonds, to help put the industry
across, and the Lehi factory got into
profitable operation, the people back
ing it at first as patriotic duty till
it got to paying its way. A bounty
OF two dollars a bag was paid by
the rtate of Utah, to help it along,
aid | remember that the Democratic
politicians of Idaho roasted them for
paying it, and said it was simply a
Republican tariff graft.
Cutler Loved the People
This same Mr.. Cutler, who is now
so prominent in the sugar business,
said he was very anxious at that
time to have the sugar industry sue
coed because it would help the people
Of Utah so much. AS the years went
Tn he said the people around the
Leni factory became more prosper
GUS than other communities; they
paid of their mortgages, improved
their farms and stock, and got SO
they had money in the bank. That
him and others, that if
the sugar industry could be intro
duced into ether localities it would
help them also, and he was anxious
to benefit the people. 81
Would Hinder the People
But when an effort was made to
get acreage and build a factory at
Utah, near the Idaho line,
he opposed it. When Hoover and
Boutelle tried to carry the benefits
of the sugar industry to Payette,
Cutler "overcame'' them. When
they tried to carry it to Nampa, he
'forestalled' them. When Have
meyer took trip into Idaho and
hen sat down with the sugar crowd
1t Salt Lake City and told them he
wanted to buy a block of their stock
and if they would not sell to him
1t a certain price he would build a
factory by the side of every one they
had and every one they might build,
hey knew he would do it. Have
meyer had loaned Mr. Cutler money
20 buy sites at Payette and Nampa
md at any other towns where
Hoover and Boutelle tried to get in.
Not far from the time when Mr., Cut