Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-14
rRl.NEEKLY SCENES ON CURB
.srety Per Cent of Wagons Come
From Davis County TO Scram-
Bile for Position.
,,,,,ment Is That tho City Should
Take the Grievance Up and Make
\ Good Investment.

d Does sax LAM ll'tu u hl"' N''
! place?
81 The answer found among the own
.rs of 200 Davis county wagons that
are now lining UP each day on West
Ersmplc street between South Temple
md First South street, is that Salt
&1aEc not only needs n market place,
hut needs it badly, and the wonder is
4 hat i. has worried along without it
/ for so Ions time.
n Pic.ures accompanying show how
"a thoroughly unsatisfactory are present
"a market conditions. one shows the
II unhtched wagons with tongues pro-
a rpding out into the streets. This is
phase of the matter resulting from
ihs keen competition and the lack OF
restrictions over the marketing meth
eds
The scramble for place on the in
/ formal Market row" is absolutely
without restriction and possession is
one point more than nine of the law.
This leads to a wasteful competition
for place. expensive and firing to all
Who participate.
Anxiety to secure a suitable position
NduS u hlSll UPS litll LAWS NOhh-
d. the unhitching of "A wagon at IL
o'clock p. M, and then the guarding
Of It's load of garden stuff until the
Forming trading begins.
REMAIN ALL NIGHT.
And the market row on a market
FOrning--these come every Tuesday,
thursday and Saturdays u sight that
Salt Laker who arises late can little
appreciate. The only regulation and
Privilege accorded the truck gardeners
his year is that they may unhitch
heir horses and send them to feed
stables. in the old days when the
iButcher-Grocer alliance of late unla-
ranted nOtoriety dictated the city
@uncirs policy in regards to hucksters
sM farmers the farmer using this
sret had to keep his horses hitched TO
hi wagon. and this made things un-
hslrable all around, but limited the
s6.,a IA farmer could remain with his
Eaad of goods before accepting anything
That was offered to him by the store
4. epers around the corner, who were
Deing apples worth 30 cents the bushel
u the orchard at 81 the bushel in the
|4Iocely store.
4 The elimination of the fnenzied
d ramble for money that preceded the
Panic of last November was the pro-
fibltoly price put upon garden stuff
|tnd fruits, which led to the abandon
ent of bottling fruit by housewives.
4 The fact that almost no fruit was
put up" in the Salt Lake kitchens
BIT year is well known to those who
Efmember the gale of criticism that
{le conditions demanding this action
HOyoked,
N NO PROTECTED MARKET.
1 Study of remedies for the situation
brought out that fact that all cities
VVe salt Lake We're protected by n
municipal market, or a market place
Hhere the grocer union could not con-
Mo- the supply. Then the demand for
|flch place first became general. and
La change of attitude commenced in
{Elt Lake towards the Davis county
|tuncr who brought in the products
F0 his own farm.
va This morning was an off day" on
IN market row, but still there were
yer hundred wagons backed up OH
West Temple curbing, There was
III a farmer in the row who was sat
pea with the market facilities af-
Rcd There was not a storekeeper
Wons the street who was any better
,ased. The odor of decaying vege-
pies that find their way into the
yer and the general noise attend
l# TO the trading is objected to by the
Heis OF abuttlng property who feel
t# lhty are being made 10 suffer ma
lal damage through the failure Of
Lake 10 create a market place.
rs WHAT \ FARMER SAYS.
la w. Evans of Bountiful, Davis coun-
La on" OF the farmers who regularly
IN the curbing space necessary for n
Ese wagon. He was there selling his
N a nus morning and this is his view
E 'I situation. as gathered In Il talk
"a w the $50 odd wagons that gather on
~ su"@l ON market days, 80 per
Eu come from Davis county, The
"a l'f lV per cent are city huckstors and
IL Heis from southern points. We of
AVE county have had many oppor-
"A lues 10 talk the thing over. and we
dI very anxious to see a market
wy established. There is money I'm
'r the city, and would prefer that
tlly would undertake the matter of
ApIishing II, as II would then be
l''ed for the greatest benefit of all
neerued
II the city will not do it. a private
pg'''on should and II would prove
good investment.
nave been IN almost all western
lerran towns of the size of Salt
Ao' ana all have their market places
pl SAT- Lake, ! don't understand
TINS city could have overlooked a
~ 100 essential TO the welfare of the
me continental market was butt
To- solve the problem, but II was
nlE thing for so small town,
conditions demand that when tho
rs built II shall be big bigger
inc Continental market was when
as built.
COUNCIL APATHETIC.
We got together once ana drew M
y crowd Of us from DAVIS coun-
unr' we submitted them 10 the
NM ms spring, but nothing was
an. itl lhe propositions For these
qni, halt one city block would bo
ad,'L II should be payed with
s"as leading In from The street
oneg Assiem If alleyWays where
ason, puld be led away from the
lIon ,iier They are hauled into pn-
M lhe market would then con-
agon, H,,,,n SIDES of a hollow square,
he qsn Nlllhs these three sides, and
,n, 'ud wagons now engaged I'm
aec "a 10y trade would on n marl,nt
e0ld 40 sl1e A stall eight feet Wide
an ,gmmodatc each wagon. and n
(he stais secure an assignment of
~ the day on week so that