One of the first motions was to ask senators Frank J. Cannon and Joseph L. Rawlins and representative William H. King to oppose the Annexation of Hawaii into the United States.
As with previous years, sugar beet production in Oregon was poor, at least partly due to the lack of irrigation.
[1] A large crop in 1909, combined with low capacity of the Ogden factory, caused 31,000 tons of sugar beets to be shipped to the Logan and Lewiston plants at great expense.
[1] The location was chosen partly due to farmer land commitments and connection by the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company.
Acting as General Manager in 1918, Eccles brought in an outside financial auditors, who was to have a "short and stormy career with the company."
Bachman stated that L. R. Eccles could have continued being a promising operations director, but handled the business side poorly.
[1] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased a large portion of Amalgamated in 1914, then sold it in 1929.
[1] Amalgamated showed a net loss for the fiscal year, the first time since the company had founded that they lost money.
[1] By 1918, the company had eight factories, located in Utah (Ogden, Logan, Lewiston, Brigham City, Smithfield) and Idaho (Burley, Twin Falls, Paul).
David Eccles, elected General Manager in September 1918, resigned in August 1919, in part due to the declining profits and lack of dividend payouts.
[1] They signed buying contracts with farmers, and intended to build a factory near Trenton, Utah.
[1] In response, Amalgamated Sugar had Dyer Construction Company build a factory at Amalga, Utah (at 41°58′18″N 111°49′41″W / 41.971548°N 111.82815°W / 41.971548; -111.82815) by in 1917, and built an 11 miles (18 km) railroad spur (at a cost of $400,000) to the Ogden, Logan and Idaho Railway.
Pacific Sugar owned lands near Tracy, California, and was building a factory in the area.
[1] Amalgamated formed the Jefferson Valley Sugar Company, then contracted with Larrowe Construction to build a factory at Whitehall, Montana, near Butte in 1917.
[1] In 1920, Horace Havemeyer strongly rebuked Amalgamated for their involvement with the Oneida Irrigation District and the Pacific Sugar Company, both in a directors' meeting and by letter to the executive committee.
Havemeyer encouraged Amalgamated to spend their energy at the Ogden, Lewiston, and Twin Falls factories.
[1] Amalgamated purchased the Cornish, Utah, factory of the West Cache Sugar Company for $1.2 million on October 1, 1920.
[1] In January 1921, the Board of Directors ousted the management put in place by the Bankers Trust Company.
[1] In 1933, the Smithfield, Utah, factory was permanently closed, then moved beginning in 1934 to the Clarksburg, California, thanks to the Jones-Costigan Act.
[1] Experimentations with growing sugar beets near Nyssa, Oregon, conducted by Amalgamated's Idaho District Manager R. H. Tallman, had begun in 1935.
This was needed because European suppliers were impacted by the lead-up to World War II and were also uninterested in developing blight-resistant seed.
[1] Because of the successful sugar production in Nyssa, Amalgamated became interested in additional marketing in Washington and Oregon.
Mailliard and Schmiedell were contracted in 1938 to promote White Satin in the two states, paying special attention to proclaiming it as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar."
[1] In 1939, the company began selling wet beet pulp, a byproduct of manufacturing, as sheep and cattle feed.
Further investigation showed this would be a poor idea, so following an October 1941 decision, the factory was dismantled and moved to Nampa, Idaho, again processed by Layton Sugar.
The postwar discontinuation of passenger service, and increased freight by truck, caused this operation to be closed and abandoned in late 1948.
[1] In 1940, Amalgamated commissioned a large illuminated sign in downtown Portland, Oregon, to advertise its product.
The sign featured an outline of Oregon and the words "White Satin Sugar", and was later animated with sequenced lighting.
[1] Amalgamated purchased the Franklin County Sugar Company and its Whitney, Idaho, factory on August 31, 1960.
[19] A man was crushed by a rail car of coal at the Nyssa plant in January 1997, resulting in an inspection and fine by Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division.