Show I BUTTER SCANDAL HERE OLD STUff IS SHIPPED HERE HEITh f Too Rotten to Eat in East Is Dumped on Salt LaKers MIXED WITH FRESH PRODuct PRODUCE OF UTAH Government and State In Inn specters Have Hav Stale Mixtures Mix Mix- tures tunes Tested The people of Salt Lake Lake City are being g systematically o r robbed on Oil nearly very every T supposed I 1 pound of butter which they purchase Instead of getting fresh butter butter butter but but- ter wh which they for h pay a a portion portion por por- tion of neap nearly ever every y pound sold here is old butter that has been shipped in from the east and worked over with the new butter I dont don't know just how bow the thc law is going b to reach the dishonest dealers but hut YOU yell Hla may v rest assured assured as as- Y Y shred that there will be no letup p until there is a stop 1 put t to this and other similar ilar ml practices Statement of J John Peterson State Food and Dairy Daily G Commissioner i Fo lot For months there thera has been a growing rovin suspicion among tho the housewives 8 of this city that they the theW W were rc not getting what hat they paid pail for when they purchased but but- ter This su suspicion is confirmed b by f the tho statement made by tho state food audi lUdl dairy commissioner this morning Mr Peterson has been conducting conducting- a quiet investigation of the methods of some of the local creameries and had samples amples of the tho butter which they sold old to the retail dealers examined by State Chemist Harms The Thc test showed shon-cd that tho the stuff was butter but that it was fresh butter Further investigation in on tho the part vart of tIle the state food and dairy commissioner revealed ro tho the fact that some some of th the creameries were shipping old butter from the thc cast and makin making it up with fresh b butter and then placing it on tho the market ns as strictly fresh butter hutter This eastern butter is said to he be bought for about 17 11 1 j cents or IS 18 cents a pound f. f o. o b. b Salt Lako Lake City Robbing Salt Lakers It is claimed that there an urn pounds pound of this kind of butter in storage storage stor tor- tora a age t in this city and that it is the intention iu- iu of the owners of it to work ork it il up with fresh Utah stock and aud andell sell ell it At the tho present this m mixed butter butler is ia retailing retailing re re- re- re tailing at nt 35 cents a round pound Just how to reach this class s of dishonest dis nid- honest dealers was a question that puzzled Mr r. Peterson on The Thc matter wa was laid aid before the theo proper authorities at Washington ton D D. C. C and they thc at once decided decided de ne- de- de to take the matter up under either the interstate law law the the old hutter butter hut but ter been from state state having ba l' l shipped one state to or another another or under tho the pure puro food ran law With this object in view J. J G. G Allord a government o agent Jent with headquarters in Denver was sent to this city a n littleover little littleover over o two tn-o weeks ago DO Mr rr Allord audi audi and DIr Mr fr Peterson investigated the mat matter ter for ten days To Stop Ston Fraud Mr Ir Allord ABord left for the time east last Saturday night and will report his flail find findings jugs ings to his superior officer Another government expert is duo clue to arrive inthis in inthis inthis this city either tonight or tomorrow Just how lon long he will remain hero or just what that time the line of hi his investigation will he be is not given out It was learned however that his visit will have hac to do with alleged violations of the tho pure vure food act an anti aud tho the interstate commerce act let and that his labors will not lIOt ho be confined to tho the butter question alone alon but hut that several sc other mutters will bo be called caBe to his attention II Wo Wo Vo have grown tired of warning warning- somo some people that they the were violating the law an and we and nr going going oin to to stop it said Mr Peterson today t A A few arrests arrests' Ar ir- ir rests rests' on tho the part art of the tho theio government will have o a wholesome effect on somo some of these lawbreakers ll and Il n ia ma coming to lo them thein and they thoy will surely get et it 1 am not at libert liberty to 5 say just what h has s been done or just what will will wH bo ho dono done One thing however however howo is is certain and that is iA that there thero will be no le letup up in the tho matter of securing evidence to convict in every ory case caGO where we believe tho the law is being violated This does not apply appl to the tho butter matter alone Other Violations II Thoro Thero arc aro other viol violations t ans s of tho law an and we arc are going after tho the violators violators vio yio- until tho the prat practice tiro is stopped It Itis Itis t is true truo tuo that government agents have havo been hero here and anti that others arc uc coming Tho government o i is working hand in ma mahand hand with tho the state officers an and AVO wo will keep u up the tho work until a stop is put to flomo Romo 0 or of the dishonest practices that are Loin being perpetrated on tho the people of thi this thit city an and aud state by b- bm manu m manufacturers and dealers Unless all si signs tail fait some of Continued on un Page Pago 8 i BUTTER BUTER SCANDAL Continued from rom Page Pago Pa o 1 these fellows will wi find themselves ii iia in ina inn 1 a n bad place bo before ore this thing ends In addition to securing the services service S of government go a agents and anti doin doing all aU ii in I his power to break up ic illegal al practices practice 5 in the foo food laws of tho the state and amid coun cairn country try tr the food and dairy dair commissioner r h has s made mude arrangements with The Thi I Character Builder to publish semimonthly semi monthly bulletins on various classes o of L goods offered for sale throughout th tho I state Two of these bulletins have al ci already 31 read ready been published Have Havo Foreign Coloring The Tho t first st deals with vanilla and gives i ive 5 a list sl of o cr every brand of vanilla alia soul on or t tho local market together with wih the fact fac whether it is pure pue artificial or contains foreign coloring Of the tho twenty tout r brands given i in in the tho tame table eleven ar aro I Ipure pure tHue ten artificial and three contain coloring The second g. g bulletin buletin gives a list ol of thirty one different lemon extracts sold HoM soldon HoMon ol olon on the tho local market Of these extracts one is standard containing C S per cent lemon oil oi twenty arc above O stan standard ard nud aud ten below helow standard These hul bulletins tins are arc free to any an- anone to one who will wi ask for them and m are especially ally valuable to merchants who ban handle le manufactured goods goods rho Tho bulletins willbo will willbo wi bo issued issue from frum timo time to tunic time and Mr Peterson said this morning that an any one who wished to receive them might do doso doso so soby by l simply sending his name and address address ad nd dress to him hun |