Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
IS CENTS
MORE HERE
THAN IN
MACON
Atlanta Pays Forty and Bibb
Metropolis Twenty-five--Same
Concern Serves Two Cities.

Atlanta. with far greater popula-
ton, is paying more for ice than
Macon.
The wholesale price in Atlanta is
81 a ton. or 81 more than the Macon
price. The comparison is even more
distinctly TO the disadvantage of At
lanta. in the prices for small amounts
OF ice at retail, the price being 80,
So and 40 cents per hundred in At
ianta compared with a straight Is
cent rate in Macon.
The Atlantic Ice g. Coal CCrpora =
ton is the principal manufaDtur'Y
and distributor OF ice in both At
lanta and Macon. and it also is In
Chattanooga, Rome. Augusta and
Jacksonville.
Three Dollars Ton in Macon.
As u result of the competition be-
tween the two ice companies in Ma
con, the Atlantic Ice & Coal Corpo
ration and the Southern Ice & Coal
Company. ice is selling at wholesale
in Macon for SO a ton. At the be-
ginning of the season the rate was
$3.50. The retail purchasers. those
who buy 10 or Is cents worth at
time, are now getting their Ice in
Macon at the rate of IS a ton. or rs
cents a hundred pounds. Formerly
they paid $3.50 a ton, or 81 IL cents
a hundred.
In Atlanta the wholesale price is
81 a ton. Ice is sold at retail on a
graduated scale-30 cents per hum
dreds in amounts over so pounds; So
cents per hundred in 25-pound lots
and 40 cents per hundred in 10pound
lots.
The Atlanta customer who buys 10
pounds of Ice, pays more than the
Macon customer did before the ice
war in Macon started. Before the
price cutting began in Macon, the
price of ice in small lots was 81 1-2
cents per hundred pounds. In At
lanta the price then, as 1t is now,
was 40 cents per hundred pounds.
To get ice as cheap as it sold in
Macon before the price war started,
the Atlanta purchaser must buy at
least 25 pounds. He can not buy
any amount of ice as cheap as it sells
in Macon to-day.
Says Price Will Be Raised.
When asked why Atlanta had to
pay a higher price for ice than
Macon. w. B. Baker, vice president
and general manager of the At
lantic, said Wednesday that Macon
was in the throes of an ice war,
started by their competitor, the
Southern Ice & Coal Company. The
price there was too low. he said. and
at the end of the war would be
raised to a reasonable figure.
'The Southern started the price
cutting" Mr. Baker said 1T is a
small company, with 6Oton capacity
We have a 3OO-ton plant, with $4,000
ton storage capacity. They started
last summer and had to cut prices to
get any business.
1T is simply a question Of supply
and demand in Macon. Ice win not
keep always and they they make it
they have to sell it. They couldn't
get our customers without offering
an inducement, and so they began
to cut prices. The cut, however, ap-
piled only here and there. our pol
icy is to treat everybody in the city
alike, When they cut at a few places
we met the cut, and pursuant to our
policy. gave the same cut prices to
everybody in the city We always
do that"
In direct reply to this is the charge
that the Atlantic is a trust and has
suppressed competition in Atlanta,
Augusta. Rome and Jacksonville and
is attempting to do the same thing ia
Macon This charge was brought by
the Southern Ice & Coal Company,
which has secured an order from the
Superior Court enioining the At
lantlc from further reducing prices
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