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The sugar company at Lehi, Utah has 

 just closed its llth and most successful 

 season. The main plant was in operation 

 about 80 days and branch plants about 70 

 days each. During this run 80,000 tons of 

 beets have been cut, averaging 15 per cent 

 sugar. A total of 8,250,000 pounds of 

 sugar were manufactured. Farmers are so 

 well pleased with the results of this seas- 

 on's campaign that a largely increased 

 acreage will result, particularly around 

 Springville and Provo. Approximately 

 $350,000 have been paid farmers for beets 

 $10,000 for lime rock, beside salaries for 

 270 employees. 



OUR SUGAR IMPORTS. 

 Sugar imports in the United States in 

 the calendar year 1901 will exceed those 

 of any preceeding year by about 250 mil- 

 lion pounds and the cost will be greater 

 than any preceeding year except 1893, 

 when prices were unusually high. The 

 total importations of sugar in the year 

 just ended will, according to the Treas- 

 ury Bureau of Statistics, aggregate 1,670, 

 000,000 pounds and the cost about 115 

 million dollars. The highest record of 

 sugar importations in any preceeding year 

 was, in, quantity, that of 1?99, 4,399,749,- 

 078 pounds; while in value, the figures of 

 1893 made the highest record, $123,083,- 

 217. The estimate of the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics for the calendar year 1901 is based 

 upon the actual figures of importations 

 from foreign countries for ten months end- 

 ing with October, to which are added the 

 actual figures of sugar shipped from Hawaii 

 to the United States. To these are added 

 estimates for November and December, 

 both from foreign countries and Hawaii, 



and for the full year from Porto Rico, this 

 method of obtaining the Hawaiian and 

 Porto Rican figures being necessary by 

 reason of the fact that commerce with 

 those islands is no longer included in the 

 statistics of the foreign commerce of the 

 United States. This shows an increase of 

 about 30 per cent in the sugar importa- 

 tions into the United States in the decade, 

 the figures for 1891, being 3,679,789,854 

 pounds, against 4,672,000,000 in 1901, the 

 actual increase in the decade thus being 

 in round terms one billion pounds. The 

 enormous quantity can perhaps be better 

 realized when it is stated that accepting 

 the average car load at 60,000 pounds, the 

 sugar importations of 1901 would be suffic- 

 ient to load 78,000 cars. In addition to 

 this enormous figure of 4,670,000,000 

 pounds imported, the sugar production in 

 the United States for the year is presum- 

 ably about 600 million pounds, this having 

 been about the annual average during re- 

 cent years. Of this four and a half bil- 

 lion pounds of sugar imported into the 

 United States in 1901, more than four 

 billions, or fully 85 per cent, is cane sugar 

 from the tropics. The remainder is largely 

 beet sugar, chiefly from Germany and 

 Austria-Hungary. In the ten months end- 

 ing with October the importations of beet 

 sugar amounted to about 550" million 

 pounds out of a total importation of more 

 than four billion pounds. Of the more 

 than four billion pounds of cane sugar im- 

 ported during the year, about 30 per cent 

 comes from Cuba, about 15 per cent comes 

 from the East Indies, and the remainder 

 chiefly from the West Indies and Central 

 and South American countries. 



