| Show HERES ANOTHER REPLY George A Hone Says Hes Not in ii 1 Favor of Shor Short Weight To The Herald I want it understood that I am not In It I favor of Df short weight buter butter anc and man misleading were were made by Sen Senator ator Seely Seeh as quoted in The Herald Herald o f C Wednesday Fob Feb 7 I 1 wi will say that I I am the person referred to as contracts for butter and am I wi will say that I wa was misrepresented and am i ii that what I did say was that I had been beem i asked by outside dealers to put them up rolls roUs of buter butter weighing thirteen ounces hut but made the that our firm re refused refused fused to put our wrapper on buter butter con containing taming I less ss than sixteen ounces Ant Ami wi will say that the state of California has hason ha haon on the statute books the same law as a Senator Scaly Seely propose proposes As to the statement in regard to one If o othe te the leading creamery men whose buter butte Is famed for its purity I beleve believe it Is ab absolute absolutely solute without any foundation whatever and the statement is a reflection upon upa every manufacturer and dealer In buter buterIn butte In this state a as every creamery creamer sels sell some or part part or of Its buter butter on this mar market 5 ket ket I think a creamery creamer man made thil thi statement although I do not know who wh whit i it was I wi will assert that there Is not nota no a single pound ot of buter butter sold in Sal Salt Late 5 containing more than thai sixteen per ecu moisture That Is the government stand standard ard and I have talked with people who wh have looked over the records or of the foo L and dalr dairy and find 10 no re there I 1 have talked toda today with 3 party who has made several hundred tests test for moisture In butor butter and he rates this statement Aso Also the inspector E A McDonald Inspected this thi market last month a as he does times e each h year ear I am Informed that that Ie I e says that the buter butter market market In Sal Salt LaIE e ewas was In a better condition than an any I lace e he had He had not round found a Ingle Ic sample that was in violation or of the lay law lawand and wl nill sa say that butter containing more mom C than sixteen per cent moisture Is sul suh to a tax of ten tn cent cents per pound an ana ii a heavy penalty for manufacturing Lii lh IC same without n a license I cn can say that there are man many state stat statement ment ments being made In regard to the weight it of buter butter and the fact fac should be know mown before passing judgment I It is more than tha likely that the partes parties writing the leter lett referred to In The Herald of have had n a hard time In meeting comp compe or of parte parties selling a large J or of their buter butter in Salt Lake and take this tim method for tor revenge GEORGE A HONE |
