Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-11
GRAIN DEALERS
ARE UP IN ARMS
Millers Especially Feeling Bitter
Against a Certain Local
Firm.
FOR QUESTIONABLE TACTICS.
Has Flour Put Up In Denver Which Is
Sold Here as the Genuine
Article

iHtTe Us u hilu OF NOlHpeUtlon Delng
carried on in the local grain and -four
market that dealers say is proving
highly detrimental to the trade. When
carried on legitimately, ordinary COM
petition is sharp. and margins are mar
row, but when a competition has to be
met that Is regarded among the trade
as highly questionable. II not actually
dishonest, then II is indeed case OF
where the road 10 Dublin is very rocky,
Members OF the Mlers' association are
feeling bitter against certain local
firm that has pulled ont OF the organl-
zaflon, and Is making a great point of
unselling their competitors, claiming
that the move Is because the assccia-
ton forced prices up TO a point where
buyers would not stand II, The Others
letort by claiming that this particular
concern Ia having its -four put up in
Denver and IS oisposing OF 1t here rs
Utah -four. Moreover, that instead OF
using Hour, manufactured at the ratio
OF AZ pounds TO the blghel Of what
enough shorts are taken out OF the
wheat to make the weight run up 10
i6 pounds of -four, Three local dealers
told a News reporter this morning
That because Of the accused
inns putting this low grade
article on the market MS high
grade goods that they had been forced
to cease having any dealings with the
firm, and that city bakers had refused
to handle the latter's -four, alleging
thnt they could do nothing with It.
Attention Is also called to what is
alleged TO be fact that this same firm
does not deliver goods, but sells from
the warehouse, and publishes ware
house prices as the regular schedule,
when the consumer thinks he Is being
furnished with delivery prices. This OF
Itself makes Il more dIfilcult to oumpete
for the concerns that mean free deliv-
cry when they quote prices TO consum-
ers, 1t costs cents per cwt. TO deliver
Hour. and when man buys a sack of
-four OF the undertaking firm, he must
pay an expressman two bits for hauling
II to his house, The same firm Is nc-
cused of selling oats for instance, nt
SZ6 when the price should be s2s, and
then delivering a sufflclency in short
weight to more than make up for the
difference. and ,e same thing ia all
legged with reference to deliveries of
hay.
The trade generally seems disposed to
let the accused party 20 the length of
the rope, for there is limit TO every
purse, and number of banks
nave been advised against ex.
tending financial aid TO the
firm that is engaged In this cutting
under Said a member OF the Millers
association today THE association was
organized to protect the trade against
dead beats. as well as TO preserve
standard prices, and prevent business
generalization. For instance, n man
runs In debt TO 4 dealer until the dealer
declines TO take further risk Then the
man goes 20 another dealer and opens
an account with him, and so on. One
object of the association Is to compare
notes In matters OF Indebtedness and
warn members against trusting UNI
worthy persons. Then an object is to
prevent ruinous undertaking OF prices,
Tor which there Is no real occasion
Whatever. and prevent anything sug-
SestiVe OF dishonety In the trade" Sew
eral dealers, In referring to the out
look In general way do not see much
prospect OF good times ahead for the
miliers in this state until they are
able to erect elevators and save UP the
wheat crops as soon as harvested for
later consumption, instead OF allowing
IL TO he shipped out Of the state, as is
TO frequently done. why" declared
one man today, II know of wheat
that was shipped to Colorado last
spring: and which | am now shipping
back from that state TO Utah. we
must have elevators; and until then.
me condition of the milling trade In
this part OF the country win be very
uncertain" When asked how long he
thought the milling interests might be
run In Utah as at present and not lose
money, he said It depended entirely on
the railroads, As long as rates on
outside wheat were such that the miller
could grind and sell on a margin of
proht, the mills could run; but let the
railroads put up the rates and the in
dustry here would collapse. A local
merchant who handles good deal Of
flour states that the turning over OF A
large acreage from wheat TO beets is
cutting large sized figure In the local
wheat problem; and then In the coun-
tiee to the north of Salt Lake tho wheat
harvest Is only about four bushels
where the growers expected seven.