Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24
If Thirty-Five Cent Price is Fixed
For Summer, Winter Raise
Will Follow.
OPPOSITION IS DEVELOPING
IL Declared That Boost in Butter is to
Ee Followed by Another In
Cream and Milk.

That the midsummer raise in but
ter to S5 cents per pound of from
13 to 10 ounces, is an advance move
on the part of the butter trust 10 pave
the way to still higher raises when
the winter season really sets in is the
fixed opinion of almost all large but
ter users in salt Lake.
So far the butter makers have con-
tended that they are paying more for
cream. but this is denied BY many
who have cream for sale. aud the
counter declaration Is made that the
midsummer raise is put in effect
when grass is cheapest and most
plentiful. to form a basis for still
higher raises on the excuse of winter
feeding More than that 1t is claimed
that local butter makers, alleged TO be
members of butter trust extending
to San Francisco Portland and Los
Angeles. are quoting butter figures in
those cities as an excuse for their ac-
ton, WREN these figures are. in fact
controlled by them under close but
secret working agreements.
TRUST HAS BEEN BROKEN.
1t is claimed that when the local
butter users last Spying shipped in
q large amount of butter from the
west the local trust was broken for a
season and the price fell to a reason
able level Then this action was fol-
lowed by work to bring in the but
ter sources of the coast. and on its
successful termination the price again
shot up. despite the late rains that
keep the price of feeding down rs no
lowest in many years
'WoLFISH" TACTICS.
George Morgan. who has been buy
ing butter for " years declares that
the trade standards and ethics Of the
local butter trust are becoming only
little short of fwolfish, and that he
locks for an organized movement
within a very few weeks to fight IL by
refusing its butter at any price and
shipping in Kansas and Colorado but
ter which can be brought here at a
saving of from to 5 cents, with az
cents per pound freight added to each
pound of 16 ounces, instead of 13. IA
and Is. and with only per cent of
water, instead of about 16, with which
the local supply is declared to be
"waterlogged,"
TROUBLE IS HIGHER UP.
You talk of the poor laboring man.
and call MIN when he gets angry an
anarchist, said Morgan in expressing
himself on the situation, but you
will never have peace in the labor
world while you have wolfish tactics
on the part of people who sell them
what they have IN have to keep alive
! don't blame the laboring man for
kicking over the traces these DAYS
The real trouble is higher up and it
is with the fellow who has something
to sell, and wants to tack on unreal
sonable profits whenever he negotiates
a sale"
The feeling is that as soon as the
butter price is successfully fixed at a
40 cent or so cent standard the milk
and cream prices will be moved up
by the same people to proportionate
figures.
RAISE DEFENDED.
The manager of the Elgin cream
cry defends such a raise to the News"
In a declaration that "A pint OF milk
contains as much food MS a similar
weight of beef and ought to sell for
as much. The line of argument is
that one com Animation having worked
TO boost the prices out of reason for
such necessity as beef, ii is right
for another commodity TO be boosted
to this level,
James Leary who Is interested in
the North Salt Lake packing yards
Expresses the hope that that institu-
ton will bring relief from the present
meat tariffs, and help to build up the
western live stock industry by AFFORD
ing ready market, till there is plenty
of meat always near at hand 10 supply
the local market
AS to the butter situation. the move
ment to discredit and break the trust
If possible Is being pushed with de-
termination. Among other things
claimed in. developing the necessity
for such move is that the Salt Lake
butter trust ships its Salt Lake butter
to coast. points and To Denver. and
sells II there, with freight added. at a
less price than 1t sells 1t IN Salt Lake.
II is well known that meat retails in
Provo. Ogden. Murray, Denver. Butte
and Anaconda at from 90 to so per
cent cheaper than in salt I.aka