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The Utah Sugar company is said to have a capital 
stock of $1,000,000 and a bonded debt of $400,000. It is a 
very prosperous company. The refined sugar produced in 
1 896 is said to have cost $3,625 per hundred pounds. At a public 
meeting held in Ogden, Utah, November, 1897, to establish 
a beet sugar factory there, David Eccles said, among other 
things, “I am an Ogden stockholder in the Lehi sugar fac- 
tory, and I may say that during the past two years they paid 
37 1-2 per cent, dividend on the investment to the stock- 
holders.” The Salt Lake Herald, December 25, 1897, says : 
“The cost of the sugar company’s plant at Lehi was over 
$500,000. It paid its stockholders no dividend for several 
years. Latelv it has paid 10 per cent per annum dividends. 
Its stock is held stiffly at $8.00 per share, with few sellers. 
There has not been a delinquent tax payer in the vicinity of 
Lehi for years past.” 
We present the following analysis of the business of the 
Utah Sugar company, for the past seven years. The figures 
below are largely taken from an able report by Henry Mich- 
elsen, of Denver, Colo., on the beet sugar industry : 
LEHI FACTORY. 
Year. 
Acres 
beets 
grown. 
Average 
tons per 
acre. 
Average 
per cent 
sugar in 
beets. 
Average 
per cent 
purity. 
Average 
per cent 
sugar ex- 
tracted. 
Tons of 
sugar 
made. 
Pounds 
sugar per 
ton beets. 
Refined 
sugar 
yield 
per acre. 
1891 
1500 
6.6 
11. 
80. 
5.52 
550 
no 
733 
1892 
1500 
6.5 
11. 
80 . 
7.50 
737 
150 
983 
1893 
2755 
9.7 
11.6 
79.5 
7.65 
2050 
153 
1488 
1894 
2850 
11.5 
12.7 
80.2 
8.41 
2750 
168 
1930 
1895 
3300 
11.5 
13.5 
81.5 
9.66 
3684 
193 
2233 
1896 
3200 
13.5 
13.9 
82.5 
10.60 
4578 
212 
2861 
1897 
2700 
6.75 
13.2 
82. 
9.90 
1838 
198 
1337 
Averages . 
2551 
9.44 
12.4 
80.8 
8.46 
2312 
169 
1652 
The land rentals around Lehi vary from $7.50 to $15.00 
per acre. The conditions there, as to irrigation, soil, rain- 
fall etc., are so similar to Colorado, that the study of this 
industry there is of peculiar interest. A dry spring, deficient 
water supply for irrigation, blight and insect depredations 
were all factors in cutting down the yield of beets in 1897 
Utah. The Utah Sugar Company cut 18.560 tons of beets 
in its factory run of 54 days in 1897 s^i^cl made 3,676,700 
pounds of refined granulated sugar. 
