Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-21 | Page 9 | Report Denied by Steamship Company

REPORT DENIED BY STEAMSHIP COMPANY Uv International News Service. NEW YORK. Oct. 20. The report to the effect that tho beof trust had cornered cor-nered all tho cold storago facilities on steamers plying between Argentina, and this country was denied today by Lo-renso Lo-renso Daniels, local head of tho Lamport & Holt Steamship company. Ills dental, however, shows how Important Im-portant tho importation of meat from the south American republic has become. "Two of our ship have nlroadv been lilted with refrigeration capacity for 1000 cubic tons." he aald. "and tho others will bo so tltted as quickly as possible. We anticipate that within tho next six months till will have been accomplished and the ships currying that amount of beof each voyage." lie declarod that on the voynge which the beef trust la accused of having contracted con-tracted for the ontlrn cold storage space of the Hloamer Van Dyke, only 400 tons of beef were carried.