The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-29
THANKSGIVING BIRDS
ARE IN EASY REACH
Prices for Poultry in Salt | ak,
City Are Lowest in
Years.
SUPPLY IS ABUNDANT
Market Well Stocked Will
Turkeys, Geese, Ducks
and Chickens.


NJ price less than they have beer,
offered AZ In Salt Lake city for Ave
years. the finest turkeys. geese ana cnick-
ems VIII be offered in Salt Lake City To-
day for 'he Thanksgiving table. Turkeys
, tender and juicy. Weighing from eight ID
twenty pounds. coming from the farsnA
OF Utah and Idaho. are the chief featulo
OF ihe market. During the last fon
years the Salt Lake market has dependel
largely for its Thanksgiving supply d
turkeys on Kansas aud Nebraska I'm,
piras have been shipped to this city ID
carload lots and have found "A ready saIt
at ianc% prices This year. however. tht
eastern stock Will he at a discounf
Wholesale and retail dealers declare thal
The big birds from Utah and Idaho ars
SO Tar superior 10 those from the oasl
,hat they VIII be able 20 command a
price Of several cents a pound aboyo
thoSe from the Middle western states
utah and Idaho farmers are coming
10 understand the fact that there rs
none none In poultry and that these two
states can raise IS fine Il grade as can
ne found in The world. The result n
going 10 he that within a few ycars
tnsse two states will he shipping poultry
out instead Of shipping IL in said h
lSadlng Wholesale dealer last night, NOT
alone Will turkeys he plentiful TODAY on
W.. ~" local market. but geese. fine. big. fat
~, ctth and Idaho birds. Will be in EVIDENCE.
"
mere WIZ be plenty Of tame ducks Sd
also the promise. On this class of pouI-
Try IL is said that tic demand Is ligIit
a,n t,at The supply will more thJn taka
Home Birds in Demand.
Harry ". Heagren. manager Of did
lah Fish & Poultry company, made tlia
following statement last night: "Ther9
VII be plenty OF poultry OF all kinds an
tne market tomorrow and the price will
flIs L :.
II has been for several years. The whole
sale, price of turkeys Is o. cents Tha
market Is well supplied tonight and there
viii bc several big shipments In ,omor-
row morning. Tho stock is Of the f;nesf
KIND; most Of the birds come from Utah
and Idaho. with few from the cast.
INC iaitar, however. are not command-| J
ing the price this year that tho localIy'
raised birds command. Geese are pIene'
uiul, with The Who'll, sale price ranging
tron IL 10 2n cents per. pound lStfh
chlckenS. hens aud springs arc selling at
wholesale from is to ~ cents per pond
while eastern chickens are commanding
cent and a half per pound more. Ar
lar as | can soc there Is no reason fcr
any any. advance in the price. of any Kind Of
poultry for the Thanksgiving table"
a representative OF The Tribune paid
n visit to a, number OF the leading reta,I|
stores Of the city last night and asksd|
,ne ,n PriIe oI me various kinds OF pouI-I
Try displayed Ono Of the dealers quoted
turkeys at Pc cents per pound With headi
ana feet off; another said that he worildb
sen inc hneSt turkey that he had r.sn
"a cents per pound and would take fhel
ioad and feet off before II was w.iyhed(
~ dozen markets visited not one of
mem asked more than o7L cents ,crI
'ound for turkeys and some OF tho deaI-
srs offered TO make a little better iricei
nan thats In not one OF The retail mar-f
tets visited WAS the price Of secse-
luoted al more than 20 cents per pouud 4
.hlckens were offered at retail al froy,,I.
70 ~ CENTS per pound and tame ducksh \
At 20 cents per pound.
Misleading Article ID
The alleged combine Of Utah farrers[,
o hoid up the price OF turkeys and othor
'oulirN for the Thanksgiving trade asF
yupilshed IN a morning paper q few|b
weeks ago has done much 10 hurt tho
tab farmer said n leading wholesaiol
lealer last night MANY OF those whosl
cad the story thought that IL was trues /
nat there was TO he a shortage. and did
csult was that they refused la take a
air price for their birds. They -II1 nod q
sant 10 sell unless they could get from,
. 10 2,S cents per pound I've wcighG
so dealer was willing 10 pay such d
rice and the result has been that whero q
be Utah farmer might have got I'd 4,
r ~ cents per pound for his tIrlSsW
ad ne not believed the story. he is now Il
!ad TO get ild Of them for less than to-,
cnts per pound live weight"
n addition To a plentiful suppIv m an
'ndS of poultry. the Salt Lake table neeIr
OF be short OF anything else tnplorroxl
here Is the finest celery grown in tIleI
ORD. .cranberries at IL cents per quart
apples. nuts of all kind NOM No
ITn ana other accessories -,