Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24
BATTLE WITH SUGAR TRUST.
I, Is GOing On in Merry Shape IN The City
Of Chicago.
Arbuehie. Cut Prices. and Gain u loot-
hold which the sugar Trust Has uss
Held Heretofore

Chicago. Dec. gi.-Tao Tribune says:
Chicago has become the chief battle
ground In the contest biwccn %he
sugar trust and the Arbuckles and the
DOcrivhors. iia powerful Tvals.
Yesterday the price OF outside" sugar
was cut onc-cighgh cent below trust
price. reaching aimor; the pwost uuofa-
sion ON record. The drop was accom-.
panied by developments that dhowcd
she existence OF little trust among
wholesale gfoccra 90 support she susar
,rur;. and also shat "a new Richmond
was IN she neid In IN, shape % a beet
sugar supply. The trust wis not ready
TO meet lts rivals prices. but % - cN-
pec.cd 20 dc - Today. The clrcum-
stances i,adlng up 90 Jhc ccs are those;
Arbucklo brCghcra ana thc potrschers
own sugar rchrerlcA on the Atlantic
avlbnard ilnt have daily capacity ~
5000 afI 1000 barrels rcspeci.vcly. h1ih
plants were t.arscd lCasthah elk m1nshs
aga ara tesh invaded Chicago win
ghclr ra0ds early IN she fhll.
The .fur. waa ready Ter them. In
September. seCnE that rival goods were
90 b. offered. H. representa- lives visited
she icbbing fra1o and suFsCFted tina;
contract be signed by which any
amount % sugar. NJ 70 q stated quinii.
~. might be purchased by che Jobbc.
~ given Ir,ce. nfri tina; low one.
1ais was to cut the ground from under
she srtSt's rivals. bus u was made only
10 ~ facsofr.
The latter uro all the wholesale
groc1rs except two or three. whose ar
rangement Wsh the trust porvldea for
tlht,c OF from one-elghih 20 one
six.eepth from the hst price. 10 DO
mad periodically.
The Arbucltiss and Docrschcrn, when
shey entered the Chlcago marka. made
cut Ia prices. II cd NC. bring thc
expccei Increase In sales. as the joD-
beers were abl, under their contnic,s Ia
draw on the truss for sugar W. the same
prices. The contracts began expiring
q shop. slime aro. lip'orc thc date was
raehti. the trusts representatives, WIS.,
Tied the faciura and extended the agree
ucnl when the Arbucklea and
Iocrachers found this out. they. ON
Wednesday lnp., announced a cut 90
$50. ana coupled N,,h % me notice
they would do busirlss dlrort with the
retail trade. Yesterday they followed
I, up with "a further cui % 6.i5--a full
one-eighih cent below the trus, price
The iocai houses ~ the Arbuckles AMI
Doefschrtr were bombirded with buSl-
Ntfh Fht'ANlNN TOT '8tlt 1ohuNin hNi
Wholesalers came In TO report the
market was taking away from the crust,
that all fhs rctailcw In Chicago were
dealing with the oppoHriOn. No ut
tempt WIS made 90 m6es the price bat
there was possibly rcrscn for this.
A meeting Of the sugar committee was
called In the Commercial exchange, but
adjourned until today. when Il Is cx-
peeled the trust price VIII be un-
n0unecd.
one year ago tht difference between
tho prices OF raw anc tefined sugars
WAS about Si.ei. Yesterday u was
~ cents. or nearly 81 pee baiei. A. the
sugar truats Nutpnt IL 10000 barrels q
day. a little igurlng Will g'ye fair
approximate idea Of rhe vast sum the
liRht has cost
within the last week or two fifteen
Carloads OF beet sugar have arrived In
Chicago. the first TO r,ach this market.
This sugar was sold below the trust
price. aud II IL said arrangements are
making 60 handle an euput of half a
dozen facloriea buih and building In
nearby rtaies. All these features ere
ate situation which well Informed
men In the trade said pointed TO tAe
conclusion the Nur would be Tough. out
IA ths market.