The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-05

in Salt Lake when it had to be imported
than since it has been manufactured here
Will probably be made the basis of a su-
gar investigation.
Lloyd Hoaglin, proprietor Of the Texas
grocery store at l51 East Third South
street is an Independent dealer and one
who has had a mighty strenuous time
with the Butchers q GrOcers' association.
Il cannot get bread from one of the
largest bakeries in Salt Lake because the
Butchers & GTOCers' association threaten
to boycott that concern if it continued to
accept my orders" said Mr.. HOaglin yes
terday. "A grocery store on East First
South refuses to sell me canned goods be
cause / would not raise the price on them
to the prices maintained by the Butchers
& GTOcers' association / used to sell six
bars of soap for . cents Some time ago
the wholesale house from which I pur-
chased the soap notified me that unless
l raised my price to cents q bar he
couldn't sell me any more SOAP / had TO
raise my prices. I can't get butter from
the Elgin creamery here because sell
the product for cents less on two pounds
than the members of the Butchers &
GrOCers do"
independent groeers and meat dealers
all over the city tell similar stories of
prosecutions and threats by the members
Of the Butchers q GrOceTs' association.
Out of town retailers are sending in
statements of prices in their respective
districts Hyrum Hayball of Logan de-
clares that he has been selling Wood s
Cross canned tomatoes at a dozen cans for
81 with q fair profit. Members of the
Butchers & GrOCers' association in Salt
Lake sell the same tomatoes eight cans
for ST.
Another retail establishment that has
had trouble with the officers of the
Butchers & Grocers' association is the
Peoples Cash Store, of which William
LangtOn is the manager MI Langton
was out of town last night but an en-
DlOve Of the firm stated that the Butchers
p naTTaSERd
concern in a dozen different ways because
it refused to join the Butchers & Grocers
association.
The cooperative store movement is
daily growing in extent and strength
throughout different portions of town.
The activity along this line is crystalilzlng
into a move for a cooperative association
to handle the necessaries OF lie at rea-
sOnabIe cost to consumers A meeting or
interested citizens has been called 10 meet
at the Wilson hotel tonight 20 discuss Ihe
feasibility of organizing a Salt Lake 90
operative association with capital STOCK
of $40 l00 in worcestershire shares at 81
a share. There are half a dozen other CO
operative schemes In the Wlnd, one O+
Them beng the proposed organization OF q
conlpanv 90 operate a string or lndepeho-
eut butcher shops in every ward OF the
WatermeIons by the Pound.
Several merchants and restaurant men
Yesterday cited as an example OF tne OPP
erations Of the Butchers & Grocers as
sociation the fact that for the IlTSt ulIl t.
i'm the history of this and probably any
other western city watermelons are belng
sold bv the pound. Last year the aver
zoe watermelon cost about p cents Al
least. say the cafe men. you paid about
what the merchant though they were
worth according to size z
Such an arrangement, however, caused
ali sorts of trouble among the aIIectioh-
ate brethren of the Butchers & GroCeIS
association. The grocer across the stIeet
might take a small melon and only charge
"a cents for it in good faith, the assocla-
+ion NOT having prescribed the extra size
Of the melons to be sold for that Isr6 2rlTe;
-l,oy,beT wanted to charge . cents for the
same melon. This naturally caused lseSi tro1-
bic so the officials of the ButcRers q
Srocers decided that melons must be SOLD
nv the pound. The price was cents a
n6und the first of the season. then II
dronned to 20 cents and now IS cents.
practically all fruits are now sold Dy me
Mound in order TO conform to the trust
schedules.