The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-13

uI CHECK COMBINE


Cabbage :. .INe b 8 to 3Ke
Potatoes. 60e c~t. esc ewt.
Apples. :. 9Oc.@s box $1.5O to e
Fresh Epus .35c dog. 45c to SOC
Chickens. - dox. 75c apiece
sVYl He shove prsoes were paid to
farmers who brought stuff to
opol<aNo last week and sold
t1,o same = retailers. With . city
market HE retailer could have de-
ruvod the benefit Of some OF these
loN prices, but under the present
eytem he 10 At tho mercy Of the
retailer.
a farmer who brought side Of
boes % Spokane last week was com
peIled 70 return home with his meat
unoold because local retailers re-
fueed 20 buy u. On q city market
~ would readily have disposed Of
e.
Tho movement to secure the ap-
prevail OF the people for a bond
issue for the building of a city mar
ket ct the time the election is held
- pass on the proposed $1,000 900
issue Of park bonds. IL meeting with
approval % the matter is being
given more consideration.
a city market conducted along
the right lines means saving
every week in the pockets of the
householders of the city, while the
parks afford pleasure for less than
half the year. The question of a
city market has been endorsed by
Z number Of improvement clubs.
but the matter IN the light OF a
bond Issue 10 be balloted on this
spring is new and has not yet been
presented.
There has been no time in Spo-
kAn0's history when the need of a
city market was felt as much as at
present. with the cost of living SO
high. With q city market, vegeta-
bles. fruit, poultry and meats could
be bought by the consumer direct
from the producer and the POSSIBLE
ity of extortionate profits by the
f middleman thereby removed. In
the city OF Seattle. where they have
good market, prices during the
winter were uniformly from 10 to
20 per cent lower than In the retail
stores of Spokane. If any such
saving could be- caused by city
market here 1t would mean that the
hOuDeh0lders of the city could save
the cost of q city market building
ip one year.
4. KELLEY ENDORSES IT.
"A. A. Kelley, who owns 20 acres
Of the finest garden soil in Spo-
kane county. inside of the east city
limits is a persistent advocate OF
city market, not because he is
producer, but because he realizes
that the proposition Is meritori-
Ous one in every way. II am glad
70 see that The Press has taken up
The fight for q city market" said
Mr.. Kelley. Spokane surely needs
IN Institution of this kind and be-
lieve that it only remains for some
one to properly bring it to the at
tentiOn OF the people to get some
thing done. have been doing what
! could to hold the private market
building being erected at Second
and Stevens. bat I realize that the
only solution of the problem Is for
the city to own and control its own
public market This Is the plan
pmrsued everywhere and 1t is the
0ne that should be followed in
Spokane"
HEPPE SUGGESTS PLAN.
II would say to give one-half of
tho proposed 100000 issue of
park bonds to the city market"
rid Marketmaster Hoppe, in dis
cussing the proposed question. MY
experience in the two seasons l
have managed the open street mar
1T IN Spokane has taught me that
= public market IL an important
factor IN the regulation of prices. a
gront convenience to the people and
= Dublic necessity generally"
comMleeloN MEMS GRIP.
i. 3. Martin. . grower Of garden
truck from Opportunity, said: 1T
tooom strange 70 SO the effort be-
~ 1880 ~ Gp0kans to develop the
adjacent country In the way Of ir-
Elnmte1 tracts and then deny the
xDoa placed q those tracts . mar
~ II tA1s city. In other words,
- 1ocnte - O those lands and
l1oa Turn ~ over to the tender
moeGeeo q tho Commissioa men,
WlAo would rather "a To Portland or
DoQttle 70 buy their vegetables than
D1Foqa1e the growers Of spokane
D0n1tv. The only way that the con-
I GnoEo ~ 0DeeEane Can disrupt The
o1lnn ~ oOmmission men,
"a ~eoma1o pro6Nce men and whole
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