Show CEMEN SERVE NOTICE I increase in Price of Ten Cents Per Hundred EFFECTIVE FIRST OF APRIL Rates to Families in Small Lots However will bo the Same as Last Year but Drivers will not be Allowed Al-lowed to Deposit the Congealed Aqua Pura in the IceBoxes of tholr Customers Rates to be Based on Contract and Market Prices Hay Go Higher My Dear Sir Owing to Iho Increase In tho cost of production this season wo ilnd ll necessary to udvuncf the price of Ice to sixty CO cents pr i buiulri1 lie fume to take effect on April Int next Tills was the llltle message that many people received through tIme mall yesterday yes-terday and while those so far seen have come from one company only it Is not denied thfit tOe per hundred will be the I I contract price this I season ivhlch is an advances of lOc per hundied over the prices of hist year In a general way and an advance of LOc per hundred over the price charged for some ice that was allowed lo bo sold for refrigerating purposes only 1 Owing to the Increase in the cost of production has a humorous tinge to it There has been no appuicnt increase In-crease in the cost of production but there has been a failure on the pail of Dame Nature lo do the work that she i has been relied upon In the past and there is a shortage in the ice crop In i i this city alone of somewhere about 25000 tons By this of course Is meant natural ice In addition tn this theme huts suddenly sprung up from various Utah and Colorado and Idaho towns a demand for Iqe from this city and this is accounted for by time fact that In none of time sections named are theie any arilllelnl plants and the people have alwajs depended upon nature for their congealed aqua pura The weather In those sections having been similar to that In Utah there is also a shortage there hence the demand upon the dealers in thin city w here there are artificial ice plants and where another Is now being put In While it Is true said a prominent I dealer last evening that there ll be a raise of lOc per hundred that will not affect the rates to be charged to families fami-lies whloh wIll bo the same as last year namely 3 i per inunlh for ten pounds daily 4 1 per month for fifteen pounds dully and S3 per month for twenty pounds dally Those who buy by i the houndredpound delivery will be allowed lo take any amount I from fifty pounds upward at 100pound delivery rates The only change there vill be so far as families are concerned Is hInt small lots will not be put Into the refrigerators re-frigerators The rate per ton will bo 55 All these figures will be bused upon contract rates for the season Market rates may be somehat higher It is useless for any one to deny that there will be a scarclly of Ice this season sea-son It Is time Intention of the icemen to take care of the Salt Lake trade before they reach out Into olhei towps and States and with the building of new Ice plains and time rehabilitation of others we shall 1 think get through the season without anv serious trouble There Is one thing i B however and thai Is there will be no culling of prices that have now been established1 |