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Show BUTTER MIES OH HE LOCAL UKETi Cut in Price Causes Jubilation : on the Part of Housewives. House-wives. I i Business was active ou tho local produce market Saturday and there was a strong demand for all lines of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, especially in vegetables and fruits. The cut in the price of first grade of butter Saturday morning from 40 to 35 ecuts is likely" to be followed by a further cut on ALouday. Eastern produeo men have in Chicago and 121- i gin forced the prices of butter up to ) tho figuro paid tho past week. In the 1 East there lias been a corner on June storage butter exactly as there lias been in Salt Lake, and this is an ad-1 ad-1 dilioual factor in holding up prices. The percent ago of .June stock now held in storage iti Salt Lake is about 75 per ecut. In other words, whilo 100,000 pounds of Nebraska and Kansas cream-cry cream-cry butter were placed in storage, hero, about 25,000 pounds liavo been put upon tho market here. Tho Elgin and Jensen creameries have noli reduced tho price of Iheir first grades, that still being held at 40 cents per pound. The other cream- I erics, viz., tho Nelson & Ricks. J. M. ', Christenseu & Co. and John Holly, are ' now. offering creamery butter at 35 cents per pound, ouo cent advance over J the prices paid for butter fat or cream per pound. It is said that on Monday tho price of high grado butter may again drop, possibly to 30 cents, although this could not bo verifiod Saturday night. That Salt Lake housowives " will welcomo such a. reduction goes without saving. On Saturday tho Eagle and Royal brands of butter were selling on the Salt Lako market at 35 cents. A consignment of grapes from Spain was placed on tho local market Saturday.- They wero of very good quality; in fact, they wero the best grapes j whioh have been seen on the local market mar-ket in some weeks. The delicacy re- tailed at 15 cenlB a pound. California grapes wero obtainable at 12 1-2 cents a pound. Creamery Trust. J As to tho creamery trust, tho Salina (Utah) Call has this to Gay: C. M. Hansen, manager of tho local creamery, has been In Salt Lako and other cities of the state during the week on business connected with his business. Ho reports that ho finds evidence of tho bad etfects of tho butter trust, or the Jensen Creamery company, of Salt Lake, which Is buying and closing the creameries cream-eries of tho state as fast as possible. The effects are about as follows In Mt. Pleasant the creamery was purchased by that concern and Immediately closed. Tho j price of butter went to 40 cents a pound i there and elsewhere, and 50 cents por r pound In Salt Lake. But how about tho j price of butter fat to milk producers? It will not be well for the country to I allow the local creameries to bo closed and stand Idle. It Is a penny-wlse-and-pound -foolish policy. |