Show w i fARMERS WILl SELL TO PUBLIC j j t Cooperative Store to Be Es Established Established Established Near Center of Town MAKE WAR ON FOOD TRUST PLANS DISCUSSED AT MEETING t r OF HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY LI At f a n I meeting of ot the Salt Sat Lake Coun County County i ity ty Horticultural society at tho the rooms of ot the county commissioners yesterday afternoon It ft was decided to make war on the Salt Lake Lak City food trust Although only twelve members of ot the society attended atten ed tho the meeting the sen sentiment sentiment sentiment seemed to bo be unanimous that something must m st be done to give gle the tho farmers higher prices for their products and the consumers lower prices In or order order order der to accomplish this object the tho so society socIety clety resolved that it would advise all Its Hs members to take stock in the Gran ite Fruit Commission company established established established by the farmers of ot East Eat Mill MillCreek MillCreek Creek last lafit spring and which has had hada a successful season The Tho company HI next spring establish establish lish a store and warehouse in Salt Lake and will cater to the retail trade It Is the expectation to undersell the tho grocers to such a degree that its success will be assured from the start The com corn company company pany any Is ia now looking for a location In Inthe inthe Inthe the central part of the city and as soon as this Is secured d the battle be between between between tween the farmers and the gr will be on in earnest The company has a capital stock of ot It was established by the farm farmers farmers ers of ot the Mill Creek Creck district in order that there might be b secured a better market for their products A ware house has been built at East Mill MillCreek MillCreek Creek and during the present season over five carloads of peaches and con considerable other fruit have been shipped d The concern has been run on a co cooperative cooperative cooperative operative basis and the stockholders have havo been able to secure a much better price for theIr commodities than for many years past It Is the intention of the horticultural society to back this project In order that all the farmers In lri Inthe Inthe the county count may ultimately become in interested interested Interested in It Direct to Consumer At the meeting yesterday ft It was stated that the grocers and com corn commission commission mission men of Salt Lake have been buying the farmers goods at a song and selling them to the consumers at exorbitant prices The farmers propose pose to sell their fruits vegetables and oth other other er products from a central store tofe In Salt Lake at fair prices and thus not only obtain for themselves increased profits but decrease the cost c st to the consumer materially Those who at yesterdays meet Ing were John Krack Joshua Terry John Woodbury James Fisher and H HC HC HC C Anderson All UI ll expressed the desire to aid Id in the work but the opinion seemed to be that Instead of forming a new farmers union It would be best bes besto to aid the Granite company In its project and thus thug test thoroughly its advisability The farmer farmers have no not from rom the low prices pre prevailing among amon the tho th local merchants but bu have been handicapped by Inadequate snipping facilities and have not been able to send their fruits away to for foreign foreIgn eign markets and secure a fair price for them It is intended to remedy both these conditions In addition to discussing this phase of the situation It was resolved to ask the Stafe Stare Agricultural college at Lo Logan Logan Logan gan to send lecturers on fruit matters through the districts in Salt Lake county to Inform the fruit growers as asto asto asto to the best manner of carrying on their trade An effort will also be made to enlist the aid of the State Horticultural Horticultural Horticultural tural society and thus make mak the th move movement movement movement ment general throughout the state |