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Show WORK OF THE PEANUT TRUST Story About Incrcasd in Price Understood by the Local Dealers. A story brought to this city esterday by; tho1 press dispatches to the effect that pdanut-users of the East view with alarm the alleged growing scarcity of the toothsome tooth-some "goobers," caused by the Southern farmers giving up peanut raising to cn-gago cn-gago in 'cotton growing, on account of the high price' of the latter commodity, la not taken seriously bv Salt Iakc City wholesale' whole-sale' dealers. .In fact, when one of them ias riucsuoneu on me hudjcci, jie k-tho k-tho newspaper representative a sly wink and a knowing smile. "That story rounds good very good." said he. "but there's nothing to It Its simply an Ingenious little romance bearing bear-ing very plainly the earmarks of the peanut pea-nut trust We've seen others like It. nnd it has the familiar look, of an old friend. The trust wanted an excuse for raising the price of peanuts, and It found a way of turning tills llterarv gom over to the news agencies The price of peanuts has been advanced recently to us from 1 cent to m cenis a pound, the nuts wc paid S-7i cents for a short time ago wo must now pay 7 cents for. But we don't take any stock In the claim of the price of cotton causing a scarcity of peanuts. The trusts would raise the price whether there was a scarcity or not they only want to let the consumers down as easy as possible. The fact Is. there are very few peanuts raised In the cotton-growing States of the South. Four-llfth of the mtlrc supply of peanuts used In this country .-.re raised In Virginia and Tennessee, Ten-nessee, and the coiton is nil rained south of those Statey Wo could import peanuts pea-nuts here from Japan for a rent less a 'Pound than the trust' price for Virginia and Tennessee peanuts, but they are not of ?o good a tpjaJlly. They nrp much like the California peanut thick hull and little lit-tle meiit." 'The trust bus complete con-it con-it ol of thci Tennessee and Virginia prod- uv, iiiiii.ii: io in.- it-i. in, Villi I llT Ull- talncrl. and that is why the price Is soaring. soar-ing. No. r don't think tho advanced prtci-wll prtci-wll make a gieat deal of difference in tho con8ump(ion. at least not In proportion propor-tion to tho Increased cost. Peanuts are a luxury which those addicted to their u.vo will have, unless they should go entirely en-tirely out of reach. We handle four ear-loads ear-loads a year of peanuts, or about 120 - pounds. ThlH would mean J1JW) a Year extra which will to the trust through' our hous alone, hy reason of the laie advance, ad-vance, and at thai rate the trust can afford af-ford to have tho consumption lessened slightly." |
