Show SALT LAKE GE TRUST Consumers Say One Exists bin Zion PROTESTS DO NOT AVAIL The Two Big1 Companies Who Do the Principal Business in the Congealed Con-gealed Product Have Advanced Prices to About 50 Per Cent in Excess Ex-cess of the Bates of Last Year and No Cuts Go Companies Plead Short Supply and Unusual Dc w inand Salt Lake has a little Ice trust of her own That Is people of the city who use the congealed product arc satisfied that n trust exists The explanation given as a basis for this nsacrllon is that you pays your money and takes your clioiceOf Ice companies There are but two big concerns loins uusl nc5S In the city the Mountain Ice company com-pany and the Salt LaKe Ice company and If you dont do business with one you must with the Other and there you arc The price In either case Ju the same and If you dont want the Ice you arc not compelled to take IL Many consumers con-sumers have tried the effect of a vigorous vigor-ous kick but kicks cut no Ice with the Icemen INCREASE OF 50 PER CENT Last year the saloon men and other large consumers paid on an average oC SO cents per hundred according to ho I amount used but this year they are paying from 10 to Jo cents per hundred They consider ho charge extortionate but they cannot make lemonades highballs high-balls or other cooling drinks without Ice and hence they pny l the price In lots of ten pounds per day iho present charge to small consumers is 1 cent per pound and whore twonly I pounds is purchased dally the rule Is fourfifths of a cent per pound These rates are all higher than they were last year Ice taken In these quantities however will not be placed In refrigerators refrigera-tors < ICEMAN IS BUSY The Iceman Is too busy to do that for you and If you dont get up in the early morning and take your ice in j there IB only a small damp spot by the time you do get up to remind you that tho iceman bus come and gone Fifty pounds per day placed In refrigerators re-frigerators now costs 30 cents per hun dren Last year it cost GO cents Sixty cents per hundred was the prlco fixed by the New York ice trust some weeks ago but two New York papers began a lightagainst the trust and had the price reduced W1IAT ICEMEN SAY rite foregoing is the consumers side of the story The icemen however have a different talc The company which dispenses the natural product complains that last winters crop was short and that there is a largely Increased In-creased demand for Ice Then comes the company which makes Its ice by artificial ar-tificial process and declares that its plant Is running to the utmost capacity i and that it has to deliver Its product hot from the molds in order to supply sup-ply the demand The Mountain Ice company In addition addi-tion points to the fact that it recently ordered fifty carloads of Ice from Denver Den-ver to tide over until its artificial plant is completed which will be about July 15thWashing Washing Ice In wagons with water from the gutters Is also occasioning adverse publlo comment An kewagon driver has been seen to stop across from the Knutsford and scoop the dirty water from the irutter with which to wash his Ice oft and cltixens who have noticed the performance are having considerable lo say about it The cost of manufacturing artificial I ice is said to be CO cents per ton How would you like to be the Iceman |