Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-10
FOOD TRUST ON
THE COAST ALSO
Residents Of Pacific Slope Towns
Now Here Tell Of Combine
Conditions.
HOW SEATTLE SETTLED IT.
City Council Investigated Butchers
And GroCcrs and Then Opened
Municipal Market

-Four days ago Lorenzo Jensen, Sec
Rotary OF toe Butchers and Grocers'
association. save out list OF prices
maintained in Portland. according 20
letter ssut t' him bf the secretary
N tho Portland Butchers and Grocers'
association.
The object iu giving the letter out
was TO show that salt Iakcrs are not
being held up in their grocery bills.
and that coastwiso towns are paying
higher prices.
Today residents OF the coastvise
towns who happen 90 boz in salt Lake
come forward with declarations that
the food trust has things in i,s grip
over there as firmly as it has here.
and that conditions prevail there ox-
actly such as prevail here. there being
much evidence lo Show % close 1nIII1-
ton OF me retailers and wholesalers
associations iu ON these cities ana sab
Lake
Tho situation is also declared Co Dee
similar in other particulars specific
ally Il fh9t tho people have bad more
OF 10 than thcv can stand. and are
organizing everywhere 90 fight the
combine
CITY COUNCIL rs ACTION
Charles Tarr. a resident OF Ogdon.
who has spent the past two years in
Seattle. .i1ras that the public move
ment against the butchers and gro
GERS combine there. recently became
o. strong that the city council took
the matter up. Investigated and fn-
ally opened 20 public market where 1ll
outlying farms could find q ready acc
cess 90 tho people Co sell their green
goods and general farm products. RE |
declares that the public square which |
was opened TO the hucksters is |
thronsed every morning from daylight /
10 about 10 O'Clock when the last of /
tho goods are sold ont. and that THIS /
has eHcctuauy settled tho question. by |
dropping the price OF groceries al /
most 40 per cent
WAR on SHORT WEIGHTS
A visitor from San Francisco saws |
that the papers there are beginning % /
wage q marclless war on short weight /
goods. particularly hams. butter. and j
pound packages NJ an kinds nearly
All Of which are found TO weigh up \
short. The way the food combine /
worked there. was 10 send agents out /
into the country and contract for the /
fNNAAN ~ NANk NA HltA iAIlN"H NN NANNN GUN"
petition would be completely shut on /
II Is said that many farmers received |
over double the regular market prices |
from rival organizations. each want
ing the whole crop or none
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Municipal ownership is another |
phase OF the defensive alliance be- |
Ing formed among the people OF the |
coast. Seattle IS declared 20 have "a |
electric light plant. selling /
light with globes free az eight cents. /
while the combine 20 was organized /
70 destroy was charging i5 cents The /
result has been "a reduction 60 10 /
cents. whore competition is establish
ed but the combine still enforoes the /
rs cent price where there SIS no city /
line IN competition. The city line Is |
said 10 be growing In patronage and |
10 be giving general satisfaction
In Salt Lake the Federation OF La
h7r ls considering n proposition 90 60 /
into the coal mining business and
into the wholesale and retail business
for the benefit Of the laboring men ia
or ganizod unions.