Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-03

~ the peseret Newsi WESTWARD .',,. ;.
!. alleged the course OF snp, ss.a oh.
S". The same law has been oo-
H' % hold good for popular SONGS
'aS trade unions. The east mas osen
S .v,nv a night on graft as a principle
hiA srlcan life, and there is appar-
u a., need IN salt Lake for the grocers
eh"' ,,ohers Of this city to stand up
anu oa,,or and explain wherein they
~ NOT conducting a gigantic trust IN
are 49, .,ev yaye forgotten all about let
."S ,he other fellow live in their glory
'hs a,,o organized so that they may
-. AZ the cost of the consumer
ma r.sa need for this explanation has
.,su called to the attention Q, u'p
liter a good many times OF la'e ny
w. rho drop in to salt Lake for a VS.
,.om surrounding states only TO ma
M, they must pay more for a few
nutton chops here than for tender'o'h
',sar At home, and that prices as u
49, range 100 per cent over those In
NEWER Butte, Anaconda ana o'"er
Intermountaln cities
PRICES HERE AND ELSEWHERE
60 anywhere in Salt Lake valley from
u.tr street to Murray and every re-
taller quotes you exactly the same
nr,ce on meat cuts. Pick up Butte
an Anaconda paper and read the
,,,ces of the best markets for the same
snts and you will find tremendous
adherence. The local butcher tells you
his apparently consciousness price, ana
,,hsn YOU catechise him about 1t ana
.bow that It is unreasonable, he smiles
and says he does not charge that price
% his regular customers, whom he
vrows and II you wish to be one of
these he will talk on another OASIS
This Is merely the price agreed upon
and al which meat Is selling, ana
which the unsophisticated have to pay
IN the small shops, and the trade in
general In the big ones.
BUY AT MURRAY.
recently not few Salt Lake buyers
nave been forced to Murray markets,
sndIng IL cheaper to spend the 70
cents required for carfare to visit that
SIty when anything like large cut OF
meat was wanted than to get 1t IN SAT-
lake. Yet a Murray butcher whom
anproached to investigate prices felt
obliged to stand by the union" and
ouote the same high prices that prevail
here, However he afterwards admitted
that II | wanted to become customer
he would do much better by me.
POINTED INSTANCE.
A little shop was recently opened on
Seventh, South street, east of State
street. The butcher Is one of the Eng;
lish shopkeepers who figure close, and
sell at what they can afford to. rather
than at what they can hold u Gus
toner for. A neighbor, whose name
i known to me, but omitted in this
communication for the reason that this
sa question Of principle rather than
Of specific instances, sent to the shop
for Is cents worth of mutton chops and
got twice as much as he was accus-
toned to getting for the money. He
found the butcher on inquiry. was
Just selling at what he could afford to.
bis rent and expenses considered, rather
than at what the butchers had agreed
upon as a universal rate.
FOUR CENT MUTTON.
A short time ago Salt Lake was
somewhat startled to find that the in
frmary Of Salt Lake county once
fed the inmates -four cent mutton"
Four cent mutton was so surprising
to uniformed local buyers that they
were at a loss 10 explain 1t, except by
figuring that it must have been very
bad meat when It was not. What 4
would salt Lakers think OF two-cent
mutton, tgo-cent boiling meat, four
cent pot roasts, six-cent round steak,
tye-cent shoulder steaks, seven-cent
shoulder veal roasts seven-cent shout
ders Of mutton eight-cent mutton
chops, Decent spare ribs. flve-cent saus-
age, and hye-cent hamburgers. At
home he can't come within hailng dis
lance OF these prices, though he ought
TO have them. He must pay from 200
10 400 per cent OF them, and yet they
are what retailers advertise as top
prices all the time in Butte and In An
ac0nda.
JUST AS GOOD AS OURS.
A quick and ready answer Of the but
chers to these comparisons, Is that Salt
l:akers only kill the best OF steers. while
mere they serve any kind of meat
YET men from Butte and Anaconda
don't do any shouting for the Salt Lake
qualities While they do whole lot
ABOUT The enormous prices, Men from
'nese places pledge their word that the