Show I MILK TRUST FORMED t Combination ot Local Dairymen r Effected j 4 i WILL JPCREASE PRICES I FIVE CENT ILAISE EFFECTIVE NEXT MONTH I 1 4 Business After tho First of January i Will All Bo Done On a Cash i BasisDealers Say the Trust Will i Discourage the Use of Adulterants Adulter-ants an4 EmbnIming Fluids I Salt Lake Is 1n the grasp of a neW I trust or will be after the first of next month The latest and newest wrinkle js the milk trust by the terms under which It has bEen nrranged the price of mIlk will be advanced a cent and a quarter a quart on and after Dee 1 Of the thirtseven dealers in milk ill Salt Lake twentyseven are In the trust and the balance are expected rtG dome In before be-fore many weeks j A session of the dealers at which the action outlined Wove was taken was leld on Friday afternoon In Odd Fellows I Fel-lows hall on Iarjet street Twenty I seven dealers were present either in person or by proxy It was unanimous Jy agreed that the present price of mIlk js ntIrelr too Jow HousewIves are now purchasing the lacteal fluid at the rate of 5 cents per quart or twenty tieket for a dollar S I Reached an Understanding After 3 lenbtllYdebate the meeting I reached an understanding that six j I teen tickets for one I11 nk was about the rJl1t ratio It was given out yes terday that no resolution was adopted j or other Ironclad agrcencnt to raise the price of milk If such action had been taken the dealers would have rendered themselves amenable to the antitrust laws So they put It in the form of an understanding un-derstanding which amounts to the same thing in the end and which very neatly according to the legal advIce obtained by the dairymen will evade the law The reason alleged for the raise In prIce was gen as being on account of the Increased cast of food products That Is food for the cows that produce the milk Will Discourlge Adulteration J It was also stated that the increase I n the price of mIlk would tend to din I couragethe use of embalming fluids as at 25 cents per gallon dairymen could I afford to sell the unadulterated article I Tills was the main pplnt made by a oth fnof dealer who talked of the trust yesterday i yester-day Another thing he urged for the I combination was the rule which was adopted pledging all members tG require re-quire their customers to pay cash for I milk j This rule will not take effect until 1 11 Tan 1 It will be of immense benefit to ninny dairymen but especially to those I whose business is large A member of a well known company said yesterday I that his book accounts ran as high as 4000 per month and that the collection collec-tion of this amount entailed considerable consider-able trouble and expense I I On a Cash Basis j Another purpose of the trust accord I Ing to its promoter8 Is the furtherance of good feeling among the dairymen I The association Is to hold semimonth ly meetings beginning on the first j Tuesday In next month On these oc CaslOllS the dealers will get together I and discuss matters of interest to I themselves Individually and to members I mem-bers of the trade at large An effort is to be made at once to induce thos who have not already joined to come In I as promptly as possible C T Erwin has been elected president presi-dent of the combination O I Shugren i is vice president and W S McDonald secretary and treasurer At the first 1 regular meeting 3 board of directors or advisor council will be elected It will be the duty of this board to meet with the officers and keep them posted as to what should be done with any problems that may arise It has been estimated by one who Is conversant with the situation that 15003 I families In Salt Lake will take 20000 quarts of milk every day in the week This Is of course exclusive of the hotels ho-tels boarding hOU5M and other large I consumers On the family trade alone j the trust will be the gainer by the raise to the extent of 50 per day This Is believed to be a very moderate calculation When the hotels and big boarding houses the saloons soda fountains and Ice cream manufacturers are taken into consideration It will be seen that the combInation will be in pocket a considerable amount every twentyfour hours as 3 result of the new deal |