Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-10-13
(U|(;Kl, bURS7ED. ueged Combination of Local
 Packing House h. N tereStS. MEN A SOLAR PLEXUS BLOW @ BY TliE LOCAL RETAIL s GROcERS. 11d That Retailers May Inaugurate Bcycott to Even Up & Matters.
That Retailers May lnaugurate 3
 Re.feo+t fo Even lJn
: STRONG CENIELS MADE.

|QkS ! hCNG GENtELo HiHOC. E RAceording to statements of local re- Ill grocers the Pine Bluff representa- 3res formed a combination by which Key could hold up every consumer V pa cking house products in the city ha high handed manner by charging 5xorbitant prices for their products. This com mbination. it seems. was formed l .week aga At least the retail gro= ;ers say that on Saturday, October meats, laId. pias feet 2aad other Iacking house goa5s were quoted 1t Hg kadFances oyer the prices of the ay prior When the grocers re- Sived these advanced quotations from ne house they immediately called he Representative of the other houses 0telephone and asked for quotations. Mwere the same without the slight It variation. To the retailers it 'ias clearly apparent that a combine Id been secretly formed. and they egan to devise plans hy which they xght be able to overcome it. and they 1eceeded admirably and knocked the clear out the first pass. -xWhen the combine was formed it ppears that MT. T. Y. Murphy. who epresents the Hammonds here. was lot taken into consideration. Some 1.-the retailers asked him for quota One, which he gave at the old fig res. The retailers then SOW their My clear to give the combine a solar lexus blow which they proceeded at nee tc do by pooling their orders ndssending to the Hammonds for ukQad of goods. Lard was bought rnerhalf cent cheaper than the com Me prices, and meat 45 cents less 1.-the hundred pounds.
 Those in the combine heard of this 0ye on the part of the retailers and snmediately the products they han :, led declined on an average of fifty Mnts The combine had been 1l,u1ted,' and the retailers had won lt Later other decines followed. In order to get the views of the re- liers with reference to the matter Nefal of them were seen by a raphic representative One of the ,oM prominent retailers in the city va:
 n is true that for the past two eeks a combination has existed in
 e packing house interests represent
 n Pine Bluff, and the prices were
 1sually high during that time
 nse represented in the combine
 e Nelson Morris & Co.,, Armour acking company. Marsh & Kelley 1 I'nnett X Tom)inson, Lev Fowler, and Ale s. & S. company.
 Several of the retailers made up . order for provisions amounting r..
 cRIload and gave it to MT Murphy <, this we bought lard one-ha,f cnYt
 eaper and meet 45 cents less on tie SsMured pounds. As soon as it be-
 me known that this order had bee ,
 aced the combine knocked the pe.- de out of prices.
 Ter several cars were bought by two three Of the iohSers, and as soon los tnls became known to the conp-
 ue they cut prices good and strong.
 are now below the ]obbers.
 1ne setaiier said that 3he ocm1,i0c
 lces Were a robher. of the people.
 uthe retailers did not propose to
 and it; that nricos were alro.a Y
 s' enough, and that the local p2ek ,oo, houses were alread- making bt2 e ii, 1pey and should be satisfied. aoni fMveral other retailers were seen .,tS thelr expressions were similar to
 se quoted il3 the foregoing. t I' 'onle Of the representatives of the
 ckng houses were seen ana they
 chlmed any knowledge Of com
 !ation.
 e manager ef tho Armour Pack
 company in this city could not be
 M but Mr. W. E. Richardson
 naser of the Nelson Morris plant
 xeen and said that if such 2 com