The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-17
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SATURDAY, JULY II. 1909

ness in Idaho. If this state makes
rule of that kind I'd have to move or 90
out Of business. I'd go back on the road
Travelled for a few years. and was DO
in6 pretty we'll then, too, answered Mr.
Mount
Favors Exact Weight.
President J. s. CARRIER of ogden Of the
commission, also president OF the state
Retail Merchants association, sad;
believe we should have all SACKS OF flour
marked the exact weight. If it's forty
eight pounds, make it say so. Let's give
everybody square deal. Pickles IN bar
rels OF bottles or kegs should be marked
to give the quantity. If there are 500 or
100 in the barrel, let the barrel be so
marked. Let the retail merchants have
fair basis so that they will know what
they are buying The purpose OF TINS
commission is not 10 drive the manufac-
turers out, but to make rules that will
keep them in, so they will all get the
same deal and have a chance to live. We
want everybody treated alike. We're here
for that purpose and also TO see that the
public gets what it pays for
j. G. McDonaId's Comment.
J. G. Mcdonald Of the Mcdonald Candy
company was invited to give his views
and he said:
All of our cocoa and chocolate prod
uCts are labeled net weight It has prob
ably cost my firm $4,000 in the last three
years because We Oidnt know that We
could discriminate against Utah by cheat
ing on weight we'd have had to pack
our goods differently, of course, for home
consumption and to ship away. But We
could have saved 10000 on candy pals
alone in that time if we had known We
could pack twenty-eight pounds of candy
In tEirty-pound pail. Those two pounds
of candy would easily have paid for the
pail, just the same as the two pounds of
flour pays for the sack it is in. If that is
the excuse for selling fOrty-eight pounds
of flour for fifty pounds Of flour, ! don't
care whether IL is the standard or not, 1
think It is rotten Nine pounds don't
mean ten pounds, and IS pounds don't
mean 100. Give the people what they pay
for, 1 say.
We pay $4,000 for candy boxes. We
give them away. We don't deduct from
the weight Of the candy that goes into
them to pay for them. They are free to
the consumer. That money goes out of
our business. That much has gone out in
the last two years and half, because we
didn't know how We could cheat in this
state.
There are some lines Of goods in the
candy business that it would he impossi-
bic to label, Take our opera bars, for
instance 1t comes in q loaf and is sliced
by hand, as a woman cuts bread from q
loaf. 1t would be impossible by hand to
make all those slices exactly the same
weight. When kid asks for five cents
worth of our opera loaf he gets a slice
and We say he gets his nickeIs worth
The next slice sold might weigh the frac-
IDu OF an ounce more or less. But We
get them all as nearly as possible the
same size"
Let's Adjourn.
Mr.. Hewlett asked for an explanation
regarding the real object of the meeting
II those present were to vote on any
rules to be framed or If the object Of call
ing the manufacturers was merely to get
their views and ideas. He was Informed
that the commission would be guided
largely in making the rules by the opin-
ions expressed. Mr. Hewlett suggested
that if there were no more opinions TO be
given that the meeting adjourn. It was
getting pretty warm. The meeting ad-
journed
Among those present at the meeting
were J. S. CARRIER; Willard Hansen, state
food commissioner; Herman Harms, state
and city chemist; o. II. Hewlett of Hew-
lett Brothers; 5. ". Price president of
the Salt Lake Retail Merchants associa-
ton; Walter Frazier, city food inspector:
J. G. Mcdonald; Leon Sweet Of the Sweet
Candy company; W. F. Jensen Of the Jen-
sen Creamery company; z. D. Miller
Intermountain Milling company; Frank
Erath. Superior Baking company: C "
Mount Mount Pickle company; Adolph
Levy, Vienna bakery; Lorenzo Hansen.
Cache Valley creamery; Mr.. Cooper, Utah
Milling company; George A Hone. Utah
County creamery and member of the state
board; John Holley, fruit and produce
dealer