Show SALT AND SUGAR DUE FOR AIRING Utah Products Sell in Denver at Lower Prices Than in Salt Lake LOOKS BAD FOR JOBBERS RETAILERS ABOUT READY TO DUMP BIG FELLOWS Realizing that the jig Is up Salt Lakes retail grocery and meat dealers are arc swinging square around on the local wholesalers and not satisfied with pull pullIng pullIng pullIng Ing away from them are now using every effort to shoW them up Utah salt manufactured by b the th Inland Crystal Salt company of Salt s lt Lake has been selling to local retailers from the wholesalers and from the Crystal people for a bale The same salt manufactured here and sold by the Crystal firm sells In Den Denver Denver Denver ver today for a bale to the retail retailers ers The retailers of Denver pay the wholesalers of that city 70 cents less a bale for or salt made here than local mer merchants merchants merchants chants do and the Denver people have to pay freight on it miles mUes across the mountains Such were the statements made C yester day by one of the largest retail grocer men in Salt Lake and his authority he declared and offered to show was a let ter received yesterday morning from an equally prominent retailer in Denver in answer to inquiries on salt and other prices made early earl this week by the lo 10 local local cal man Sugar High Here Too The Denver dealer In the same letter declares that sugar is selling from the wholesalers to the retailers In Denver for 54 a hundred The price from the lo Jo local local cal wholesalers to the retailers Is and the sugar Is made here In Utah It Is selling In San Francisco cheaper than In Salt Lake City It was sas openly charged yesterday esterday that the Crystal Cr stal company has so arranged Its business that It Is absolutely impossible for local merchants to get salt at less than the prices charged by the tho Inland people For some time local retailers and whole wholesalers wholesalers wholesalers salers who knew that Denver people were buying the salt of ot a local company for less than It was being sold for here would get a commission man In Denver to order a car of salt from the Inland company at the prices the Den Denver Denver Denver ver wholesalers The car would be load loaded loaded loaded ed here and started for tor Denver con consigned consigned signed to the Denver Dener commission man Immediately after the car started the rail railroad railroad railroad road company would receive orders from the Denver commission man to stop the car at Salt Lake and unload It sub subject subject subJect to the orders of some local firm Then the local dealer would pay pa the Denver man a small commission for his trouble in ordering the salt saIt and having It stopped at Salt Lake In this way the th local dealers got the salt at Denver pric prices es far lower than those quoted In this city on the salt Stopped It Quick to the retailers the In Inland Inland Inland land people learned of the game that was being played and they the stopped It quick and In this way They put agents itt lir cities where their heavy shipments went to For instance they put an agent In Denver or retained a man there Then when Denver Denyer merchants or a commission man of that place ordered salt no mat matter matter matter ter who It was as for ultimately the car would be billed and consigned to the representative in Denver and would be subject to his orders till it reached Its destination This cut out all chance of Salt Lake wholesalers or retailers getting the salt at the thc low Denver prices and they are arenow arenow arenow now paying down their a bale against the Denver price of a bale hale with TOO miles of mountain railroad freight charges thrown in inThe InThe inThe The dealers are very bitter In their de denunciation denunciation of the salt company compan but de declare declare clare dare they are powerless to help them themselves themselves themselves selves Even Kansas salt Is selling in Denver to the retailers at a bale This salt is not used in Salt Lake as asit asIt asit it Is too far to ship It and the local company has a monopoly of the busi business business business ness An effort was made last night to reach N W VT Clayton Claton general manager of the Inland Crystal Salt company at his home here to get his side of the story and a statement on the charles charges the re retailers retailers have made against the concern con ern he manages The attempt was unsuccessful After Jensens Scalp Another important development in the fight against the food combines it Is expected will be the resignation of Lo Lorenzo Lorenzo Lorenzo renzo Jensen as secretary of the Butch Butchers Butchen ers era and Grocers association For or the past two days das Influential members of or the association have vehemently protested against and criticised the course Secretary Jensen has pursued on behalf of the as association association association of ot which he Is secretary in inthe inthe inthe the handling of the retailers side aide of the present controversy President A Hudson of the association said last night that Secretary Jenson has not been asked to resign nor has he ten tendered tendered tendered dered his resignation Notwithstanding this It Is known that half halt a dozen prominent members of tho the B and G have demanded that Jensen be ousted and a new man put In to run the affairs of the association The deal dealers dealers ers are sore clear through at the treat treatment treatment ment accorded the association through what they term blunders of Secretary Jensen J ensen Whether hether or not the angry members of the Butchers and Grocers association will willbe willbe willbe be able to get Jensen fired may only be surmised but It Is certain that things are anything but quiet among the mem members members bers of the Butchers and Grocers and a serious eruption may ma occur at any time Meanwhile the state officials are going ahead securing evidence against the com corn combines combines bines It was announced yesterday that one of the biggest out of town whole wholesalers wholesalers salers salem In the state will come in this week and tell District Attorney Loofbourow all he ws of the alleged combination among the wholesalers and Jobbers |