The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
Pacific COAST SUGAR WAR
ORIENTAL PRODUCT MAKES
TROUBLE FOR THE TRUST.
San Francisco Firm Able to Under
sell the Trust, No Matter What
Price the Latter Makes.
San Francisco Chronicle.)

There is trouble ahead for the sugar
trust, and the prospect of a war in San
Francisco which will temporarily de-
crease the price of refined sugar for the
wholesalers and consumers on the Pa
cItie coast. The same firm that was be-
hind the deal before is engineering the
new one. Some time ago NJ. ]. Brandon
stein d Co entered into an arrange
ment with the Arbuckles of New York
and endeayored to cut rates on sugar
in San Francisco. A few carloads were
imported and fight was precipitated.
All went we'll until the sugar trust made
a combination with the Southern Pa
cific, which promptly raised the rate
of freight to such a prohibitive figure
that Brandenstein was forced to dis
continue the Importation by way of
New York He was also unable to make
profitable arrangements to bring the
sugar by water by way of Panama or
the Horn. At that time the Brandon
stems intimated that they were not
through with their sugar deal, and
few weeks ago they began to make their
word good. The Importation was made
so quietly by way of San Diego that
few people knew what was being done.
The sugar Brandenstein is now import
ing is cane sugar from Java and Man
liza, refined in English and Scotch fac
tories at Hongkong. 1t is carried by
the steamers of the California & ORR
entail Steamship company, which is
part of the Santa BE system. Hereto
fore these sugars have been landed in
San Diego and reshipped to this city.
but in future the sugar will be landed
in San Francisco at a saving of time
and expense, and the steamers will pro-
coed from here to San Diego with the
rest Of their p3rO0PS
The real battle began when the sugar
was placed on the San Francisco
market. The Hongkong sugar was
offered by the <BrandensteinS at a
quarter of a cent below the market
price, and the trust met the cut by
dropping five-eighths of a cent below
the original price. The Brandensteins
went a quarter of cent lower and the
trust dropped three ixteenthS of a
cent, making thirteen sixteenths in ALL
The last cut came yesterday, and now
the war is fairly on, and no one knows
where it will end The Brandensteins
are in the fight to stay. as no prohibit
tive railroad rate can be made now to
shut Asiatic sugars out of San Fran
cisco. The new importers are quite
sure of their contract with the Santa
Fe company and are ready to pour any
number of shiploads of sugar into San
Francisco. They are Independent of
the ATbuckles and everybody else, hav-
ing kept their plans to themselves until
all the details were settled beyond the
power of the trust to interfere. The
Brandenstein company is rich enough
to fight the trust with its own weapons.
Meanwhile the benefits go to the whole
saler. the retailer and the consumer.
and the profits of the trust are cor
respondingly diminished. The interest
ing feature of the situation from the
consumers standpoint lies in the state
ment generally accepted by the trade
that the Brandensteins can undersell
the trust one-eighth of cent no mat
ter what price the trust may make.
Visiting In New York.
New York, April S.-The following