The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-27
Combine Gave Him Turkey on
Thanksgiving for Thirty
Cents Per Pound.
1T COULD HAVE CHARGED
HIM THIRTY-FIYE CENTS
Denver People Bought Same
Bird for IL Cents, Coast
People 22 Cents.

When Salt Lake family sat down
to Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday,
the bead Of the family, when no carved
the national bird, the toothsome turkey,
I which graced the table, he gave thanks
10 the butchers and grocers trust Of
Salt Lake that the bird which he
I carved and which cost him so cents
a pound was, in so far as price was
concerned, a deliberate hold.up.
During the day this head Of the
family had been looking up the markets
in other cities, and he made the dis
covery that Thanksgiving turkeys in
Denver cost Il cents per pound; IN
Spokane, p cents per pound; in Port
land, 10 to 221a cents per pound; in
Sacramento, 90 cents per pound; in Los
Angeles, 20 cents per pound; and they
were tho finest of Kansas turkeys, too
just the same that he was eating. And
he said things because he had permit.
ted himself to be held up for from
to II cents more per pound than did
the people In the towns named, IN order
that his butcher and grocer might wax
rich and pay salaries to the officers of
trust whose only mission was and is
that the traffic will stand.
Price of Butter.
Meanwhile, as he was helping the
II occurred to him that the butter
which was necessary in the meal be-
ing served cost him 40 cents q pound,
while butter made IN the same cream
cry in Utah where the pound he had
was made, was furnished the Los An
geles man for So cents, the San Fran
cisco man for 27 to 80 cents, the Port
land man for 321a cents, the Spokane
man for 80 cents, and the Denver man
for 80 cents. Then he said a few more
things against the butchers and grocers
trust in Salt Lake which was holding
him up.
AS a side dish, there was a lettuce
salad garnished with hard boiled eggs.
1t dawned upon him that be paid 80
cents dozen for those eggs, while the
Denver man bought them for SO cents,
the Portland man for 40 cents, and the
Los Angeles man for 40 cents. And
again he said many things about the
butchers and grocers trust N Zion,
and wondered what he had TO be thank
full for
OF course there were potatoes on the
table, and as he handed the dish to
his eldest boy he recalled the fact that
pounds for them, while the head Of
family in San Francisco bought them
for 20 cents to Sl.l5 per hundred; the
Sacramento family, for Sll5 per hun
dred; the Portland family, for So cents
per hundred; aud the Denver man, for
81 per hundred Then he returned
thanks to the butchers and grocers
trust for holding him up in Zion.
The cranberry sauce-always a nee
eGcnrN a11uncF fo Tbnuly din
ner-he remembered, was sold TO him
III berries by the quart at ID cents. The
Spokane man purchased his cranberries
for 1919 cents quart. the Portland
man for 10 cents. and the San Fran,
cisco man FOR Is cents. Again he
thanked the butchers and grocers trust
of Zion for aiding him in separating
himself from his money.
Cost of Beet Sugar.
Beet sugar sweeJened the articles at
this Thanksgiving dinner that needed
sweetening, and the good wife who sat
at the foot of the table remarked that
the sugar was Utah beet sugar and the
cost was $3.50 per hundred pounds. The
head Of the house had discovered in his
reading of the market reports that the
San Francisco family paid $5.45 per
hundred, and the Portland man $5.45.
Still the resident of Zion returned
thanks TO the butchers and grocers
trust.
There were several guests at this
Thanksgiving board, and the question
of domestic economy was discussed and
the conclusion reached was that ii it
were not for the butchers and grocers
trust in Zion the cost Of living would
be reduced from % to 40 per cent And
these guests declared their belief that
an agitation against the combination
that was holding up the prices here
was absolutely necessary 20 the welfare
of the community, which was held up
Just because the people stood for it.
a revolt against the trust is near at
hand.
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