East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-12-23

syracuse Salt Monopoly Is rom the com
mercial columns of the Detroit Free
Press:
We have from time noted the enor-
nous rise and rapid fall of salt, and an
explanation of the matter is due alike to
thc people at large, the merchants of
the State who have suffered, and, to
their lasting shame, to the powerful and
dishonest monopoly at the East who
succeeded so well in bringing the crisis
upon the country. At one time the
price in this market reached 1888, and
IA many portions of tho State as high
as 81 90 per barrel was paid. Tho
farming interests of the West suffered
severely from this rise in an article Of
prime necessity,
There was no ground for the rise, but
tho monopolists of Syracuse thought
they could rob tho West of any amount
with IMMUNITY, and tried the mposture,
with, at first, good deal of success
They strained prices as long as they
could, but tho vast quantity of Liver
pool salt that was thrown on tho mar
ket, and the rapidly increasing amount
Of Saginaw salt that found its way West,
soon convinced the would.be robbers
that the West could take care of itself,
and fall Of 81 IS per parrel attests the
service that the salt blocks of the Sagi-
nav Valley has done for us. Had it not
been for this timely discovery salt TO-
dsy would be held at Sc per barrel.
Mover again shall the cormorants Of
Salina be able to place their poisoned
fangs in the vitals of the West, for, by
The opening of navigation, Saginaw will
liscc all interests depending on salt out
OF the reach of eastern sharpers.
The malignity displayed by the mo.
nopoists against the Saginaw Valley
article is scarcely to be believed. Their
tools filed the West with trumped.up
stories about the quality of Saginaw
salt. a years trial has proved these
stories to be unmitigated falseholds, and
to-day, at every point throughout the
land, Saginaw salt is the leading article.
We leave the conduct of these would.
bo dictators of tho price of salt in the
bands OF the western country merchants,
whom they have SO deeply wronged.-
There as hardly one among them who
has not lost from 500 to 81 900 on salt,
from tho fact that the quacks at SYRIA.
cuse made them believe they controlled
the salt trade, and it must 90 up, up, to
IS or $40 per barrel. But they soon
discovered that they could not keep it
at SO 50, and down they rushed it, re-
CARELESS of tho interests of the meh they
had dupcd.
Saginaw is too much for Syracuse,
and will continue so to the end, and the
western farmer may now rest satisfied
mat syracuse can never again play the
same game her salt-boilers have played
during the past three months
The simple facts stated above will
explain the cause of tho rise, which
caused such an excitement among con
summers, and it will expose, also, the
attempt on the part of the salt interest
OF Syracuse to mi arc our Michigan salt
IN the markets Of the world, in order
that thci works might entirely control
tho market, and thus enable them to
virtually rob the people by extorting
ruinous prices for an article which is in.
dispensablc to every household in the
land.
III nov iu''g .ne narEe. VII
change during the winter. We ouote
fire at 81 90 aud coarse at So 05.
Exroprs rcoN S"cIy,w R1yrp Til,
Bav CITY Press publishes atabular state
mort of tho exnorts of tho nr;nc;na
staples from Saginaw Valley for the pas
sooson ~ obtained from tbo hooks q
= -, ~,
the eoiiec'or Oh mat port Inc aggre
gate is as follows:
Lumber i0a GIG 600
,o- ooo
Co., 1905
''ooo'ooo
n"''' 800 $1,000 oOo