Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-13

The man who VS. making the
cuts, is one of the olGest grocers and
butchers in Salt Lake. He declares that
the rent man, and not the grocers has
made profits under old conditions, and
that he can show his ledgers TO anyone
wishing to inquire, which prove that
In rent alone he paid out In 1906 Iscre
money than the PROFITS amounted to on
business totalipg $4,000.
HOW ABOUT GROCERIES.
The break In groceries has not yet
occurred. An inquiry from one grocer
TO-DAY, who is featuring butter at two
pounds for 55 cents, which is only 275s
cents per pound. brought out the dec
laration that groceries and provisions
in general could not drop, since
combination among local jobbers re-
suited In agreements to sell only at a
certain price, and the retail margin
was such that 1t couldn't be lowered
without disaster.
The wholesaler from whom ! buy
he said, was Just in here, and asked
IL he couldn't do something better than
he had been doing on Diamond soap.
He said he would like to. but he was
signed up with all the others to sell
at that price only, 80 he couldn't let
me have the goods any cheaper. l be-
lieve that the price on 80 per cent of
the things on my shelves is fixed by
tilO Sdiait iuiet nG IoHGtuQtu.
DENVER COAL.
& why pay SIS ton for Goals is the
slogan of a Denver paper, which to
fight the trust has bought a mine, de-
veloped it, and Is marketing it's prod
uct In the city for So .96 per ton for
lump. 1878 for nut, and $3.50 for
slack.
The manufacturing interests of Den
ver. backed by all civic organizations
have been In a fight for some time to
get cheap slack for manufacturing pur-
poses. 80 that Denver may become
a great manufacturing center, and thus
BIO prosperous whether mines are sue
cessful or not They have succeeded in
getting manufacturing slack" on the
market at s1.40 per ton, but it is rated
as poor in quality. A better grade sells
at sl.a0. In Salt Lake the NJ. and
NJ. association claims that many indus
tries are refusing to start up on ac-
count of the impossibility OF getting
fuel cheap enough to give promise of
success.
LOCAL COMMITTEE.
A committee consisting of Mr.. Bruff.
Mr. McAllister, and Mr.. Haddock of
the board of directors has been ap-
pointed to take the matter up directly
with Mr.. Derrah of the Rio Grande
road, and file with him a statement of
the necessity for cheaper manufac-
turing slack, and the good that such
a commodity would do In the making
of Il greater Sa. Lake.
DR. wIDTSOE's VIEW.
From DIR. John A. widtsoe, head of
tho Agricultural college at Logan, has
come a very encouraging letter to the
NJ. and NJ. urging the necessity of de-
veloping more manufacturing In Utah
II am heartily in sympathy with the
movement to foster Utah institutions
first and those of other states later.
Personally / make It q point as far
as possible TO buy Utah made goods
and am patronizing institutions that
operate primarily for the bonafide citi-
zens OF the state. II We could all
get together on this matter and make
Utah made goods our first choice II
would certainly result In "a very short
time In the establishment OF a great
many Industries in this state. Consid-
ering the age OF Utah, there Is hardly
enough OF tho manufacturing spirit
among u.s."