Show FIR LUMBER NOT MOT ADVANCED Denier Dealer SlI Says Sms S 'S Prices ices on All 11 Grade Arc t rc 11 Since irl June Iune I. I Salt 11 Inke k City Utah Sept 17 17 li lW li Int Mountain Inter r nc Republican Republican- On the commercial page of oC your Issue o or of Yf yesterday Sunday appears r this state state- ment t Prices on fir lumber advanced ul 2 during the week treek This statement aon alone ani and by hy Itself might aught perhaps lit be passed practically un unnoticed tin un- noticed were It not for tor the time fact tact that almost all nil of time the dally daily papers of or tills this city have ha printed similar statements IH all summer long bug A As one member of or tin till hi lumber fraternity I want to protest against ag this continued l of matters All loyal Salt Lakers are nrc try try- hug ing to boost Joost for the lIt city and such do the time boosters no good The Flue cr cry Is universal in Salt Snit Lake that tint prices of oC building are so hl high h that time the progress of or time the city is re rl re- Most of oC th the lumber I people ople have hn been too bus busy taking care of or business to pay much attention to It It but if iC the cr cry keeps up neither the lumber people nor imor any other r r people will have hn enough business to keep them from Crom tal taking a perpetual holiday Prices of or lumber from Crom the tue producer to lie dealer have made many ninny advances ad ad- vances anees this season on In f fact cl so frequent have ha th they been that It has been blen almost Impossible to k kep keei ep track of or them but the local dealers have ha not been heen able nor 1101 have ha they attempted to keep pace Our company has tins published three c price lists this season sason Jan Jami 15 I March 1 I and June 1 1 1 About SO per ler er cent of oC the tho Items listed have not changed at nt all al In that lint lintline time line Since June 1 I there ha tins has been no advance anee of oC an any kind on an any Item Hem mel mel- nieu- nieu honed In price list and our we wc are arc to today today to- to 11 day selling at the same price as us wo we tH havo been Iwen doing since June 1 and nna on 60 so per cent of the Items contained Inthe in the tho price list at nt the same as we hay hav been selling since Jon Jan 1 JI Just t what shat other dealers are doing I have ha no means of knowing but from the tho fact that wo we 0 are arc not nol doing all nI the business I Infer InCer that our competitors are aro not far from us In the matter of prices Our aim has been to keep as ns near an nn equilibrium as possible and we have havo soul sold er very close to cost man many times because be- be cause ause we could not keep up with wih the const coast advances ud ances without too great an art agitation in the local market and we weIn weIn weIn In common with wih other dealers are sellIng sellIng sell sell- Ing today on less les than legitimate marIns margins margins mar mar- gins Ins because we an arl trying trying to do our part to boost s' s Salt Lake Practically er e every yard nr In Ja this cIt city bought hought er very heavily last year as long IonS ago ngo as October and have I been heen al able ablo o olo lo to keep prices here something near stable b by ln gl giving up a part of oC the market market market mar mar- ket advances ud ances that lint business conditions concede concede them tho the right to make It I is therefore neither pleasant reading to tous tous tous us nor nO justice to the fraternity to be told eVer every week or so that thal prices havo o been advanced when they have not and an have our friends look at nt us as though h we had been associating with Standard Oil al magnates magnates I believe the lie lumber lum Jr of ot Salt Sal Lake have done more than thun any ny conservative c business businessman 8 man nuan would woul ask ak them thorn to do to keep prices down I am not posIng as a philanthropist A lot of business on a a. a small mal margin Is better beter than titan a vcr very little litle business on a n better beter margin if JC the expense account must rem remain ln al about out the same In both cases and had hind we kept within shouting distance of oC tho the supposed at ance advances heralded by the lo local ho 10 cal a al press the there e probably would have been vcr very little business indeed for any lily of us me was There no advance anc ad In the price of or fir Or lumber er last week There has been no 10 advance ance in the lie selling price of oC fir fil lumber or an any other kind of lumber cr since last ast June Juno so fur far tir as ns we are concerned con con- corned and we would have havo found It out before now I had ad of or any our our competitors compel compel- tors been asking It H. Yours truly Theodore Manager T Taylor Armstrong Lumber Company Compan I |