Show Why Cost of Butter is I IJ J High r I J I Salt Lake CIt City Utah Jan 13 1910 To The Deseret News Dear Sirs VIII you Ou kindly publish h this let letter letter ter containIng a few ideas on the pres present present ent prIce of butter also other articles anti The creameries In this state al are generally buying cream crania from the Ito based on the tho Salt Lake Lako City market marlet When hen the thc market goes up tho rho prIce goes up uI to the tho farmer When the market goes down the price goes gocs down to the Ito farmer My 1 c company has hutt made malle It a to the prIce that we pa pay PI butterfat In the theS S ml Kows Anybody Interested lit In the subject can find our quotation on butterfat In this p paper per eel week In the year ear The price paid Li is the tho same to everybody bod In Utah and Idaho At the present tune time we era aro paying S cents per pound for 01 butterfat delivered to Salt Lake City or Pocatello Idaho In arrivIng fit at the price which but ter Is sold Bold nt at the dealers In ha Salt 1110 are arc guided lar largely el b by what Is being paid or what must bo be paid for but to the tho farmers The high prices of oC teed havo been the cause of a good many farmers letting their cows go o dry this winter and the production ot of butter Is at t least 25 1101 cent less In the InterMountain region than LImn it was teas one year ear ago so It becomes necessary sar sary to ph a price that will keep the farmers Interested In milkIng cows It must also be stated that On account of oC the lon long cold winter a great Ineat deal of at feed eed Is being fed to range ran go cattle and sheep In order to keel leep them alive until spring The question of cost of oC the feed Is not generally considered when It comes to keeping the tho 11 live livestock stock frond Crom starvation The Tho recent all advance vance In butter and the advance In butterfat to the farmer Carmel was caused by these conditions and also by the high prices prevailing for butter In Butte Montana Seattle and nd Spokane Washington and Portland Oregon Butterfat advanced to 38 I cents In Idaho and northern Utah before the Utah creameries and butter dealers 5 saw W fit to advance the market In Salt La Lake te CiL City In order older to hold theIr shippers and In order to keep up the make ot of butter The Tho price paid for Cor cream and butterfat is b largely largel a competitive condition and wo we are af by the tho large cities north and west of us who arc buyers In our state when our prices will permit them to do doso so 10 This competitive condition affects Idaho and northern Utah it can perhaps be said that the State of Utah south of salt Lake cn City Is not affected by this outside competition but Is It fair to expect that the farmer Carmor living south of Salt Lake should be paid less for tor his cream than the tho farmer living north of Salt Lake ILke CIty and Is It fall fair to argue that the cream producer in Utah should bo paid d less for his prod product product than the cream producer receives In Idaho In order that butter might be besold sold on the Salt market at a lower loner prIce than It Is sold laId at In ha other largo large cities I 1 dont bellevo behove on any of your read readers readers ers will recommend or consider that the farmers In Utah should be paid less than their product Is worth The rhe creamery man Is not the judge nor Is he the active factor In establishing the butter market Same Is 15 being es In the largo butter markets or of New York Chicago Elgin Illinois and these markets mIL must t and do govern the butter markets of the country 3 as a whole The consumer In Salt Lake Is not paying excessive prices In comparison with other markets We e can take it for Granted that such towns as Kansas ca City Missouri and Topeka Nan Kan located ed In the Missouri RIver valley where there Is a heavy overproduction ot of butter buttor enjoy comparatively the tho lowest prices on butter of an any part of the United States Slates and I hove made some somo comparisons I find that the retail price or of butter In Salt SaIl Lake City during the tho year ear 1909 1900 averaged n cents per pound I hl higher her than It did In ht I Kansas ansal CIty or about 9 per cent centI I find that the price of meats I SU sugar lI eg eggs s fruit vegetables and gt will average from 9 I Iper per cent to 15 per cent higher In ht Snit Salt hake than It floes dots In Kansas City The a average lUe am II consumes about pounds tJ of butter o annually 1 1 figuring SPI r I this at an n advance I of cents we find that the average family In Salt Lake City II is paying about more each your yeal for lor butter than the average fatal fatally amlI I ly is IR paying In Kansas City or as stated before 0 per cent of oC an adv advance mcc Let us 1111 make mako a few other othel com comparisons par A house telephone In I Kansas ansas costs per annum In SnIt Salt Lake City It costs per annum an ad advance vance of per annum or 01 20 percent percentA A suit of clothes a cress crass or 01 your dry It will cost you from 20 O to 50 per cent more In Salt Lake Lale than It does docs In Kan Kansa Kansas sas sa CIt City according to Lo how expensive and how host good you ou want It A small home In Topeka Kansas or 01 Kansas City can b be rented for Cor 1000 to 1500 per month In ht Salt Lale City nothing can be bc had for 01 less than 2000 to 2500 per pel month an advance of oC per year car or 65 per cent A ton tonof tonof of coal is III 50 In Topeka Kansas or Kansas City Missouri It Is In Salt Lake On tho avera average e family use of oC 10 cents per annum this will figure 1500 or an advance of per cent If you travel on the rho railroad In Utah you ou Pu pay three cents per lei mile In Kan ICan Kansas sas and Missouri you ou pay two cents per mile an advance of 50 per pel cent The Tho express on cream Is exactly 33 13 per cent higher In Utah than It Is In Kansas These Thelo figures will he be found Cound approximately correct They all help to tomaKe tomake maKe living JIving somewhat expensive In Utah Rut But let us consider the other side A good laboring man can be secured in Topeka Kansas and Kansas City Missouri for tor per pel month ho re 10 from rom to per month In Salt Lake Lale City Yo We approximately 76 75 people In Salt Lalo Lako and People outside or of Salt I ake In Utah and Idaho and I tend find that on an average I am paying 40 per coat cent more In wages for the same service than the wages In Kansas and Missouri I am not In a position to make Il a comparison on the Union scale but I know when we want a job jab of oC carpen plumbing electrical work brIck brIcklaying bricklaying laying etc we pay pretty well for Cor sonic same Salt Lake Is a city n a growing city There are very few Cew poor people here herc and throughout the year there Is no idle labor While It costs more to do business here and It costs more to live here the wages and busi business business ness conditions generally generall are certainly vcr very much better than those existing to Topeka Kansas and Kansas City Mlis Higher wages must of at course mean menn higher cost ot of living because the tho prIncipal Item or of expense In all manu manufactures manufactures and ot of every kind Is labor We e people In Salt Lake CIl City depend to a great extent upon the people In the country It If the farm rs make mone money the city people are arc pros and the best of all Is this fact that there thero is still farm land to be had hada a at noI nominal cost for lOI th those se In fn the city who desire to reap the benefit of good prices of all products raised on the tho farm arm armIl I It Il will be a sorry da day for Salt Lake City should our people discontinue buy Ing those products that are arc and here just because the they cost more than those articles which are shipped In here tram from the out outside outside side No doubt at the present time many a family In Salt Lake CIt City are aro buying Oleo MargarIne and supporting someone In Chicago o or 01 Kansas CIt City I where this product Is made mado and In doln doing so the chances for employment mont montare are lessened In our home city and if Ie this princIple Is carried out On every thing th thit t Is made and handled here hor Salt Lake City will soon be It a city of oC people Instead of a city wIth people W V F JENSEN President JENSEN CREAMERY COMPANY |