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Show 0 Why the Price of Salt Was Doubled. Competition is not only the life of legitimate trade but it aids in protecting the consumer from persons .who sell public necessaries at exorbitant prices. To the fact that one company virtually controls the production of coarse salt In this vicinity vicin-ity hi probably due the increase of 100 per cent in the price of that necessary. Not only will brewers, restaurant men, tanners and stockmen be affected by this unusual increase in cost but every householder house-holder in Salt Lake who owns on ice cream freezer will feel the effect of the action of the salt company in advancing its whoesale price on coarse salt from $3.50 to flO per ton.. When thiscompany was fighting fight-ing some of its young rivals; last summer it delivered this same grade of salt to wholesalers at $2 per ton. Hide salt which cost the big dealer from f 7 to $9 per ton now calls for 20 per ton. What causes this condition? We quote the explanation of the salt company from the news columns of yesterday's Telegram: "I. A. Clayton, treasurer of the Inland Crystal Salt company, was reticent about making any explanation ex-planation of the increased prices, but finally said: " 'While the fight was on here we gave salt away and made people presents for taking it. Our territory terri-tory here is so small that we cannot make any a.. .mi |