| Show oom tom a information GIVEN I 1 editon EDITOR deseret news SIR in reference reverence refe reve rence renco to a communication in your last issue from a patron of commission agents 11 will you kindly give us space in your valuable valuable columns to say a few words we are unable to answer your correspondents question directly because it assumes or presupposes pre supposes something which we cannot by any means admit we refer to the inferential allegation that most articles of groceries and several other kinds of merchandize merchandise dize can be purchased in this city in the fall and early winter cheaper than people can get them through commission agents this Is nobby any means the case la in a general way war it Is true to some dut out to a very small extent As to whether we can or can not freight through as cheap as anybody else eise Is foreign to the question because in every instance when we receive a commission for goods to be delivered in this city the price for fret freighting biting them across the plains Is definitely agreed upon and it sometimes happens as was the case ease last year that early in the spring when commissions are mostly taken the prospective value of transportation for the ensuing season Is greater than it Is afterwards ascertained to be the benefit arising from this decline the commission merchant thinks himself justly entitled to because on the other hand band if the price of freight should advance as was the case two years ago he would be the loser moreover every season we find that this like ilke all other isolated markets Is overstocked over stocked with some few articles which are consequently offered for sale saie by those anxious to dispose of them at very low rates frequently even below first cost of course cases of this kind are far from being general but if a person happened to send by a commission agent for any article which in the fall should happen to be one of those drags as we pres presume urne nine a patron did he wo would ua d leeh leek feel somewhat sore about it we trust the foregoing will explain to him and all sim similarly ilary situ situated ateO why it Is 11 is to disabuse the public mind of any erroneous is impressions which may moy have been created by a patrons remarks and forita vor for his benefit alsoto also aiso wo will take for example an order for two articles of gro groceries gloceri ceri cerl es and four of of dry goods things that occur to us as being the first most people would send for if their means were limited and which we will assume were sent for last spring by us and we had hundreds of such from which ii it will be at once seen that it was neamy 43 per cent cheaper for the parties to by batrony trony us than to purchase them here A Pa patmon patron shows 23 22 per cent the other side bide now without considering the 12 per cent for interest there Is onik only 53 per cent between Ie tween us and the parties wit with whom he must have done business the first column represents the nett cost freight and commission as charged by us last fall the second column the cash price of the same article at retail 5 ib finest tea st 1260 60 1750 10 ib lb A sugar 4 43 0 50 20 ads prints 0 27 4 35 40 ads sheeting 0 31 1240 0 50 2000 20 ads denims 0 41 0 o 55 1100 1 20 10 ads stripe 41 8 ad 0 55 1100 rn 50 it should be borne in mind that the above Is a small bill of staples strictly on which comparatively ively small profits are made Ina lna in a general bill of goods such as would bo be required ina lna in a family the difference would be far greater we have nave spoken only for ourselves possibly a patron may have been imposed upon by somo some dishonest person with false invoices or by one wha who purchased on long time instead of for cash we of course do not know we feel thata that justice to ourselves demands that we should disclaim doing business in that way we should like however to do some business for fon gaa a patron boull this year in order that the satisfaction he must of necessity experience at the way in which we do it may redound through the press to the credit of commission merchants generally as his ve questions nest ions lons tend to their disgrace we are respectfully yours GODBE |
