Show FEAR EFFECT OF THE BEEF REPORT Many People Refuse to Buy or Eat Canned Meats of Any Kind CUTTING OUT our FRUITS TOO SOME DEALERS THINK REFORM I WILL VILL BENEFIT THEM The recent exposures of tIme the ases of the Chicago packing plants has nas caused much uneasiness among local gro grocery grocery cery men Many of them have cancelled their orders for canned goods and others are not even offering them for sale The market for these goods has diminished greatly during the last few days The result of the investigation will wUl be disastrous disastrous trous to the packer and also to the re retailer taller as the season when C canned goods are sold most is just coming in The people g to the resorts get in a good supply of the these e eatables and there is al a ways a big sale for them in the summer summertime summertime time Some of the grocery men claim people will pay no attention to the report and that it will be much the same as when the country was startled when it was reported that adulterated meat was be being being ing sent to the soldIers in Cuba and the Philippine Islands The sale was not af affected then They claim that none of Ui big packing establishments would sac sacrifice the worth of their brands b by send sending sending ing out impure products The refuse and spoiled meats are sent to houses under a different name but con controlled trolled by the same company and are packed there There is no danger of oh ob obtaining taming bad meats from the standard brands but the danger lies in the in inferior inferior brands and the unlabeled goods There are however a great many wholesalers and retaIl men who talk much to the contrary They say that the trade has bas been lessened considerably al aJ already read ready and they predict that it will wiIl con continue continue Their customers have not only lost confidence in canned goods but are questioning the fresh meats The canned fruIts and vegetables are another line that is suffering The sale of these vic victuals victuals has decreased along with the canned meats One prominent retailer said that whIle the investigation would be harmful to the grocery man at present the reform that it would bring about in the prep preparation preparation of such goods would gain the con confidence confidence of the people and finally result in increasing the sale of canned meats It is early yet to jUdge the real ef effect feet on the local dealers but most of o the look fo serious results Atthe At Atthe the same time the butchers are arc rejoicing rejoicing ing because it will make things boom in their line jine Wholesale men are uncertain about the results The They say that there is a scar scarcity city of this stock on hand because so much of it WItS was sent to relieve the San Francisco sufferers and If large orders were to come in they would be unable to accommodate them as the packers are arc be behind behind hind in their orders now A big whole wholesale wholesale sale mal ma who recently passed through Ogden said that the sale of canne canned goods had fa fallen lien off entirely there and the thc merchants did not expect to sell any anymore more goods during the summer |