Show BUTCHERS COMBINE A I MENACE TO SALT LAKE we spoke of the gro-st in Salt Lake and he Today we are handle without gloves butchers' id smoked meats are price in Salt Lake other city of its size in when the fact meats should be cheaper with millions free grazing land on md hundreds of acres of alfalfa that will pasture of cattle or fifteen hogs and lands' that will more sugar all kinds of stock foods e than any other section And with all of a good and a climate that ings the common Salt Lake are compelled the eating of meat be- unholy alliance of the ers here to rob or graft is size of Salt Lake in i- It is a mining and The farms around are t of them are hilly or and much money has to be spent or fertilizers to get any in 90 per 1 Scranton's meats and comes from the western my of Utah's fat i those of other western 5 shipped to Omaha or nd are here slaughtered a portion of which is is W miles east of Wes not have a butchers' com-jp to rob the The M-S is a late price list taken of round steak for fresh legs of per per g per lb per lb fet st smoked per ga per ie remember that some of the meats sold in were raised in miles Now look at the same kind of meats that are sold and the robbery prices we have to pay for the taken from a late Salt Lake Fresh Dressed per Steers Heifers' 06 Cows Retail steak Family 30 cut Round Chuck Pot Prime rib Rump Boiling 08 Soup bones Smoked Wholesale per lb 19 slab 22 r f fancy per Retail per What excuse is there but robbery for a butcher to charge 18 to 30 cents per pound for when he buys a hind quarter of the best beef delivered in bis shop for 8 There is a little a very small amount at wasted in cutting and yet in a steak they weigh all the bone with the then cut out the waste and sell it again at 3 cents per pound as ground bone for chicken A retail meat dealers' combination such as Salt Lake has means no competition in and no competition in prices means The big dressed meat whose main office is in may have seen that the Salt Lake retail combine was that they did not care much what they paid for as they could arbitrarily raise the retail price in they have gradually increased the wholesale prices on all smoked and the Salt Lake consumers are the skin back hams retail for cents in while such hams wholesale in Salt Lake for 19 In talking with a conscientious Salt Lake butcher the other he said it was sheer robbery to charge his customers 18 cents per pound for round steak when it should be sold for 10 or 12 and to ease his conscience he always gave that when a person asked for a pound of round steak he gave a pound and a He further said that he would like to be independent and honest and sell his meats at a reasonable but if he cut the established retail prices set by the trust he could buy no more meat and would have to go out of Another some of the Salt Lake butchers buy the meat of old cows for 6 and then sell it at the regular first class We are up against a hard proposition in the meat Who will tell the Utah Independent how to meet V. S. |