| Show RETAIL BUTCHERS COMBINE A MENACE TO SALT LAKE last week we spoke of the gro-l rs' ake an II jongh the Today we are ng to handle without gloves jj- infamous butchers' II and smoked meats are II a in Price n Salt Lake City a Ian any other city of its size in J when the fact meats I Call kinds should be cheaper K than with millions of free grazing land on and hundreds of acres' of alfalfa that will pasture head of cattle or fifteen hogs and lands that will more sugar Beets and all kinds of stock foods the acre than any other section And with Re blessings of a good water and a climate that Bakes things the Apple of Salt Lake are compelled the eating of meat be-Banse of an unholy alliance of the Bat dealers here to rob is Kout the size of Salt Lake in It is a mining and The farms miles around Scranton are most of them are hilly or with and much gie and money has to be spent for fertilizers to get any md of a in 90 per of all Scranton 's meats and comes from the western many of Utah's fat Ipg with those of other western are shipped to Omaha or iago and are here slaughtered a portion which is in Scranton is miles east of not have a butchers' too the The is a late price list taken a Scranton of round steak for freSh legS f V beef per lb per lb per lb Par per lb 1 smoked per I R- per lb remember that some of 1 the meats sold in Scranton 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 Sirloin steak 20 Family Short cut 25 Round Pot roast 10 Prime rib 20 Rump 15 Boiling 08 Soup bones 03 Smoked per lb 19 K v fancy per lb Retail per lb 40 excuse is there but robbery for a butcher to charge from to 30 cents per pound for when he buys a hind quarter of the best beef delivered in his 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 Avith 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 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 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 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 and then sell it at the regular first class are up against a hard proposition in the meat will tell the Utah Independent to meet V. S. |
