Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-03
WHOLESALE MEAT is LOW.
Schedule is 80 1-3 Per Cent Un-
der the Winter Price, But
Public Pays the Same.
Rumor Of Organization Of Independent
Meat shops q. Confirmed by
Packing Company Onicial.

The longer the search light OF an
aroused pupuc opinion SIS conferred on
the prevailing commercial practise. the
more things come to- light that COM
tribute To the present famine pricos.aud
10 the destruction OF the trade prin-
ciples that have kept conditions nor
NAL in the past
The hunters of fruit and vegetables,
and the farmer pcddler are not the
only people ruled of salt Lakes
streets by a high license. The milk
peddler who one time drove into town
70 sell the output from his half dozen
COWS. IL now a thing Of the past aloug
with the pcddler who is taxed his SIS
per season for one wagon.
l. y. Barnett manager OF the Elgin
Creamery gave an interview 10 the
News" two weeks ago in which DE
said that butter ought TO be nifty cents
n pound. and milk much higher than 10
Is, because these commodities have
not raised while beef has gone up
along with many other food products.
BLAME HIGH LICENSE.
Today Nh. Barnett was seen and he
declared that his firm could sell milk
present nrohibitive license were re-
moved. He also declared that the
Faust creamery and the Empire cream
cry are In trouble with tho license de-
partment because thye refuse 20 pay o.
Applied 10 the small farmer and tho
man with few COWS. who used 20
sell his surplus milk to route Of
customers. he SAYS that u simply
drives them from the field
PROTESTS TO MAYOR.
when asked definitely whether his
firm would lower the price Of milk IL
this license were lowered, he said that
ne could anord 20 lower a. and that
the admitting OF farmer pcddlers again
would adjust that matter anyhow
The license. he says, Is a special one
imposed In addition 20 taxes and the
merchants license, and for MS hrm
makes a fee OF $500 per year in addition
10 his regular license and taxes. Pro-
test has already some 90 Mayor Braus-
ford about the high price Of vegetables
and its relationship 20 the high tariu
imposed on huckstcrs. To-day one or
the largest creamery operators blames
a similar license for eliminating compe-
titlon IN milk and cream, ana leaving
the business In the hands Of a THO Of
large operators.
AS TO BUTCHERS.
Another important feature Of local
business affairs came 90 light today
one Of the largest cattle men IN the
west declares that local butcher shops
are getting their meat today 50 10
Der cent cheaper than they did last
winter ana Vet he asks the butchers
TO show a single case where TINS re-
duction In prices from the winter 70
the summer schedule has been allow
ed 10 leak on down through 70 me
consumer. The same party suggests
that a fertile neld for newspaper work
would be to take the railroad trelsh'
rates Of the past fiVo years list the
commodities on which the freight has
been reduced and then 70 find traces
OF corresponding reductions IN thc
prices allowed the consumer
NOT IN COMBINE.
A few DAYS ago George Morgan Of
the Vienna cafe. referred 20 the loeal
jobbers as "wclhsh' iu their demand 3.
Today the cattleman quoted above del
clares hat word "hOggish' is the only
nj one 20 apply 10 their public atti-
tude I'M the matter or prices. Tie COM
firms declaration that the now
North Salt Lake packing plant WIZ
not be in on the combine. and viii
try 20 build up the western cattle
market by selling through iudepenl
lHMl NlhIrr Ut fANNfH7NA AAlNN tNA
reasonable prices, 30 per cent ana
more. under the prices charged at
present.
Lorenzo Jensen. who has had 80
task a defending the combines 81
Of the present controversy is rtad
with AN explanation OF meat c0nd1
tions he has prepared a boe' ma
showing the weight of each cut and
the PROFIT the butcher makes ufon li.
But he gives prices as the amount rc,
ceNc1 which are about 20 peI cen,
under what anybody can buy me
lfor. cut by cut when NJ faces q
butcher with his map. and tries I'd
purchase al the prices quoted.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES.
Even the sum OF $3.50 rs shown as
the selling price OF "a thousand pound
steer q profit on about 20 per cent. Tho
prices given out ON This schedule ave
neck. "a pounds az cents.