Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-20
s,,slness Men and Farmers Form
Company to Rsnovate
Continental Place.
GARDENER GIVES HIS VIEWS
r,uck Vendors Have Been Driven
From Pillar to Post--sometbing
On High Prices.

Headed by Frank Cutler, several
husiness men and farmers have begun
me formation OF company which will
have for its object the remodeling OF
,be old continental market and the OBJ.
,sinlnR Of a lease upon the property for
.. wears. The farmers object to being
sorced TO 20 10 the Eccles- Browning
market for various reasons; one being
that the new market is not large
enough.
A. the matter now stands there is
considerable complication. The city
counsl has ordered the Continental
market closed and Judge Lewis OF the
district court has issued a restraining
order against the police department
forbiddlng Interference with the farm
ers In the same market.
The views OF a market gardener
south Of the city are given In the fol-
lowing communication.
TO the people OF Salt Lake CITY:
For Is years or more, the market
gardeners Of Salt Lake had been gath
erng on First South between Main and
West Temple street The last few
wears they have been buneted about,
here and there, as II they were a public
nuisance.
within recent years a company OF
OGDEN spectators built some ware-
houses near the railroad between Sec
ond and Third South and Second and
Third West streets. Here they made
a street 60 feet wide. Half OF this space
was taken up by the platforms and
teams Of the occupants OF the ware
house, a local commission COMPANY.
These people evidently thought 10 "A
good plan to have all the farmers
gather on this street. one hundred and
thirty places we're marked OF to ac-
commodate $50 wagons that come to
sell and 100 more that come to buy. The
city council was then petitioned to
have the farmers moved OF the streets
since a market place 60 had been
provided for them. Could the builders
Of the warehouses have been acquaint-
ed with existing conditions; could they
have known that the number Of gard
eners will still Increase as the city in
creases, and then have intended this
small street for market place? Such
a place must meet the future demands
and this one does not even meet the
present ones. Why should the oc
oupants intend Il as such?
The city fathers. however. without
Investigation. granted the petition.
WHERE SHALL THEY GO?
"A report was circulated by the COM
mssioners that the farmers would be
compelled to 60 down there. Looking
upon this as form Of graft, the farm
rs decided to gather at the old Com
unental haymarket. This place is unflt
iof any such gathering and should be
condemned from sanitary standpoint
alone But where shall they go? The
new market II Inadequate. the present
one unsanitary and the old one is de-
MED them
Some Salt Lake growers claim. that
hish prices are due 70 a trust among
me farmers They advocate that the
t'uok-sardeners instead OF congregat
ing should be separated and sell their
produce around at the stores and
nouses. This they believe will solve the
"O''em But no such trust exists.
CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.
High prices are a result ~ ,ha
slppE not meeting the demand A busi-
.ss man before buying, looks over the
-. then pays his price. The same
.ppoVunlty Is offered the people nj a
place OF garden products. ON
O,ner hand n the gardeners sell
10uho the city who sets the standard |
prices II they wish 10 fleece tha
tople' who Is to prevent IL? The buy- |
uves not know what others in dif- |
.h. parts OF the city are paying, he |
"a ~ nov Know how the supply stands, |
~ Vannol pay accordingly. The need |
market place must be obvious
e cry council have been petition
= again and again, Bur still no 49,,
tt place SUI" no mar
ant business men are anxious that in
an, mems nisi De offered TO bring people 10
~ 49, ana vet they are Indifferent |
we raet that nearly every town and
~ " any Importance has It's market
~ lor 'he men who come 10 feed
o. nv peVpie' Where Is ours? The lack
v one disgrace TO the city.
GEORGE REED"