Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-29
WORKS 10 HOURS EACH DAY.
lat End of Every Month His Profit
He Declares Would Not
Pay the Rent.
by Association. However, is
Admitted. in Instances Where Groc-
ers sell 'I4caders" as Bait

That all is not gilded profit that
goes into the local grocery shop. is
. the declaration made TO the News"
4 today by groceryman who conducts
n neighborhood store in the north
I western part of Salt Lake City. He
says he arises every morning at
o'clock, buys his perishable groceries
before I o'clock, keeps his store open
tin at night. and makes so little
he would have to close IL he had to
pay rent or hire a clerk.
He called at the News" this morn
ing with a big package Of bills, show
ing what he has to pay for all that he
buys, and accompanied them with
statement of the selling price for each
araticle. His bills were from the
wholesale department of u. G. NJ. /.
When asked what are the wholesale
sources Of supply to retailers in Salt
Lake, he said that most of the pro-
duce is purchased from one OF the
following firms: II. c. NJ. l. (whole-
II sale Department., Taylor.
Henderson's. Kane Bros. and from
John Scowcroft of ogden.
When asked IL Lorenzo Jensen had
ever called him up to tell him the
price he was to sell his goods at for
the day, he 81 id that he had not but
that Lorenzo Jensen had often called
him up to tell him of a raise in whole
sic prices, and let him govern him.
self accordingly.
PRICE COMMITTEE.
Asked about the price committee he
said that this committee had notified
the members last night in their meet
inG of n prospective raise in tomato
prices, and raise in rice prices on the
Pacific coast and that those who were
able would take advantage of it by lay
ing in stock at the current figures.
Asked IL he had ever heard of the
association notifying wholesalers that
they must not deliver goods to price
cutters under the penalty of having
these goods rejected at all association
stores, he defended such policy on
the grounds that the price-cutters
would be selling without a profit and
that as a merchant he had right to
tell a wholesaler he would not handle
his goods II this wholesaler allowed
Ianother merchant to sell them with
out prof. or below cost. He said
he had heard of case of this being
done TO a grocer named Leavett on
Market Row, who persisted in fight
ing the association by handling Ar
mour & Co. goods at less than regular
prices until the association notified
Armor g. Co.'S agents that they would
not handle the goods unless THIS was
stopped.
The grocer does not wish his name
used, on the grounds that he does not
care to enter a personal dispute over
the matter but Is vitality Interested
since the integrity of the merchants and
grocers is attacked.
COULD NOT MAKE RENT.
He says that he owns his own home,
and could not make rent from his store,
Ii he had TO pay rent His business, he
declaifs, turns over getween $4,000 and
$4,000 l, NTH and keeps him at the
counter IL hours day, with two addi-
tional each morning spent on Market
row, picking out pcrishable goods.
The list of bills he submits makes the
following showing for few staples,and
he supplements il by declaring that
there is not an item on which the gro
Ger takes over 90 per cent, out of which
he must pay all costs for maintaining
1 his store: