Show TALE OF AN A iCE TRUST Salt Lake Prices Advanced Fully Fifty Per Cent t RESULT OF A COMPACT 4 BUT NEW COMBINE STRIKES SEVERAL SNAGS t Symptoms That the Agreement Will Be Smashed Before It Gets Into Good Working order Shortage of 5000 Tons I Salt Hake Crop May Have Artificial Ice Again One little combine that touches eYe man woman and child in a tender spot a the days grow hot is the ice trust of Sat Lake City This trust or compact or agreement or whatever i Is called b > its promoters was brought about for the purpose of maintaining prices and to do away with Injurious competition in the way of detracting from the merits of the Ice Thirteen concerns entered into the agreement The piices of ice were raised fully 50 per cent over last years rate to all small dealers and somewhat some-what less to the heavy buyers People ple who received twentjMlve pounds of Ice daily last year for 3 per month wee to pay 5 this year for the same amount The small consumers who had their Iceboxes filled every other day last ea for 2 per month were this year to receive ten pounds each day for J3 per month The heavy consumers consum-ers who buy bj the ton were to pay Jl per ton more this year than last The agreement started off well but has not held in all cases Five of the sellers who run but one wagon each wero referred to by the big companies as onehorse concerns and i was Intimated In-timated that their ice crop would fail before the summer was half over There was much talk too about impure im-pure Ice although all the ice put up was supposed to have been tested by James W Ure the sanitary inspector But tho war began and is now quite hot and prices are going to pieces to some extent There is one legitimate reason why ice should be higher in price this year than it was last This is due to the shortage in the crop which shortage is etmate at 5000 tons and this shortage short-age will produce one of two reuls bring ice In from abroad or start the artificial ice plant The Herald Is informed in-formed bj one of the ice men of the city that the National Bank of the Republic Re-public which took the artificial ice plant as a debt some time since is planning to start it up this summer and will begin operations as soon a it Is assured of sale for its output running at full capacity This is twentyseven tons per day |