Show PLAN TO REDUCE I COST OF LIVING Promoter of City Gardens As Association Explains Object of Concern WILL EMPLOY IDLE MEN PROPERTY OWNERS ASKED TP TO FURNISH GROUND FOR WORK Plans for City lt Gardens association to reduce the cost ot of living hiving are arc beIng rap rapIdly rapIdly Idly perfected and promoters hope soon to have them In shape for presentation to the public with a vIew to enlisting the moral and financial support necessary These promoters hope that the practical men and women of the city will take the matter up a way that will suits One of the most enthusiastic advocates of the city garden plan said Find No Food Trust We hear frequent reference to some mysterious bogey organization popularly referred to as the food trust of Salt Lake Reputed sear searching by or order order der of the grand jury has so far failed to reveal any such combination But there Is no denying that we are confronted with condItions right here at atthe atthe the present time about which nearly nearl ever every man Is swearing and nearly every woman thInks she Is thInkIng The City Gardens association has a definite plan It Is known that there are hundreds of acres of unimproved ved prop property ert erty wIthin the city limits and the nearby suburbs for which water Is available This land hand Is now being held by the own owners owners ers for speculative purposes or is lying idly the completion of Installment payments by purchasers of It ItIs Itis Is believed that It can be made to produce vegetables to furnish a large percentage of the supply of garden products The plan Is to secure the use of every suitable pIece of ground and engage thor thoroughly thoroughly competent horticultural experts to superintend the work of transforming th whole Into a chain of beautiful pro productive productive city gardens the product of which Is to b be sold to the public at a faIr per percentage percentage above cost Must Make Money The Tho organization must to a certain ex extent extent tent be a moneymaking one all a It Is con consIdered considered wholly Impractical to get business businessmen men to engage In It without some expectation expectation tation of realizing a profit on the capital but the plan Is designed to be more mere of ofa ofa a pUblic benefit In which the entire city shall share thus Insuring a substantial reduction In the cost of breadstuffs Another of the principal alms aims of the association Is to provide healthful employ employment ment for a large number of Idle men dur durIng lag Ing the summer months particular atten attention attention tion being gIven to that class of men past middle life who are not capacitated for work In the building and mechanical trades but who would be fully compe competent competent tent to perform the lIghter labor pertain pertainIng Ing to city gardenIng The support of the various real estate and commercial organizations of the city Is solicited and a company to be known as the City Gardens and Free Market as with a capital of Is pro proposed proposed posed for the purpose of giving the ex cx experiment a practical trial during the corn com comIng corning Ing spring and summer It Is Intended to confine the attention at first to the raIs raIsIng lag Ing of garden truck but later It Is thought It may be possible to produce dairy dalry and poultry products which shall be sold at R n cost as low as possible and with the un tin understanding that no excessive profits profit shall be allowed promoters Permanent offices have been established and the pub public lie lic Is urged to subscribe for stock In the company at one dollar a share and all property owners are solicited t td make a contract for the use of their ground |