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Show "THE BUTTER SITUATION. r fIt is interesting to note the posi tion of one of Utah's leading cream-erics cream-erics relative to the centrilization proposition pro-position which has received much attention at-tention by the Tribune and Telegram of Salt Lake City in their attacks on the so-called' "food trust." In response to a request from the Tribune, Mr. I. N. Parker, vice-presi dent of the Jensen Creamery Company, Com-pany, states some weighty and incontrovertible incon-trovertible facts, and gives reliable figures in proof, in the following communication: Mr. Parker's Side of Case. Acknowledging the receipt of your cry friendly call this morning in which you ask us to furnish you information in-formation as to the governing prices of butter in this state and also in other oth-er markets, and in conformity with your request I herewith hand you for your inspection a telegram from Los Angeles, dated December 7, from the Maple Grove Creamery company, one of the large centralized creameries of Southern California, in answer to our telegram asking for this infor- mation. Telegram is as follows: f "Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 7, 1908. "Jensen Creamery Company, Salt J City, Utah We pay farmers, f. o. b. Los Angeles, 38)4 cents a pound butter but-ter fat. First-rate butter retails at 45 cents a pound. "MAPLE GROVE CREAM'Y CO." Again, we hand you a telegram received re-ceived from the Hazelwood Creamery Company of Portland. Or., one of the largest centralized plants on the Pacific Pac-ific coast, whose business runs into two or three million dollars every year, in which they say: "Portland, Or., Dec. 7, 1908. "Jensen Creamery Company, Salt Lake City, Utah Answering wire, thirty to forty, depending quality and distance from Portland. "HAZELWOOD CREAMERY CO." Again, we hand you from the Commercial Com-mercial Cream Company, Spokane, Wash., same dote, as follows: "Spokane, Wash., Dec. 7, 1908. "Jensen Creamery Company, Salt Lake City, Utah- Butter 36 cents, first grade retailing 45 cents. "DAN NEWMAN, Manager." Another telegram from Los Angeles, Ange-les, December 7, from C A. Mussel-white Mussel-white to C. V. Musschvhite as follows: fol-lows: "Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 7, 1908. "C. A. Musschvhite, care Jensen Creamery Company, Salt Lake City, Utah Butter 45 cents today. Raise soon expected. C. V. MUSSELWHITE." Another from the Central Creamery Company of Eureka, Cal., the same date, says: "Eureka, Cal., Dec. 7, 1908. "Jensen Creamery Company, Salt Lake Gity, Utah Butter retailing at 40 to 41 cents. Butter fat worth on present 'market 37 to 38 centi a pound. "CENTRAL CREAMERY CO." Another from Seattle, Wash., says: "Seattle, Wash., Dec. 7, 1908. "Jensen Creamery Company, Salt Lake City, Utah F. o. to. Seattle butter but-ter fat 40, wholesale 37, retail 45. Butter fat Portland 38. "KLOCK PRODUCE CO." San Francisco Market Reports. We also submit for your inspection the market reports of the Produce Exchange of San Francisco for the wholesale price of butter paid by jobbers, job-bers, less the commissions and other expenses of handling and drayagc, which would probably amount to nearly 1 cent a pound, as follows: Cents. Friday, Nov. 27 37 Saturday, Nov. 28 . M 34 Monday, Nov. 30 ...!. 35 Tuesday, Dec. 1 ... 35.... Wednesday, Dec. 2 M 35 Thursday, Dec. 3 .. 35 The Los Angeles markets, under same date, have ruled about 2 cents a pound in advance of the San Francisco Fran-cisco market. I also submit for your inspection a telegram received from our Mr. Jensen from Topeka, Kan., saying that we can sell all of our surplus sur-plus butter on the Pacific coast at an advanced price to what we are: charging charg-ing here for our first-grade butter. Price Paid for Butter Fat. We beg to advise you that we are paying to the farmers of Utah 33 and 34 cents a pound for butter fat, Salt Lake City delivery, which is based upon a 34-ccnt price for butter. The very day that there is an advance in the price of butter we make a corresponding cor-responding advance in the price butter fat to the farmers. Now, wha right have we to ask the farmers to sell their butter fat 4 cents less than we can sell the butter for? The people peo-ple of Utah arc paying, retail, 5 cents a pound less for high-grade butter than arc the people of Washington, Oregon and California. California, Washington and Oregon have in the last few years become great dairy states, each one producing from twenty twen-ty to twenty-five million pounds of butter cadi year. The large centralized central-ized creameries have, by paying high prices to the farmers for their butter fat, built up this great dairy business; while Utah, which is a better dairy state than cither of the three states mentioned, is struggling along with perhaps a million pounds a year, and the farmers discouraged from the fact that they have never received u fair ptic.! for their product. What He Pradicta. Just as soon as the farmtrs under stand that from now on they will be able to sell all of their cream or butter but-ter fat at the market prices just so soon will the farmers from all the valleys of Utah be milking ten and fifteen and forty or fifty cows where they now only have two or three. The motto that we first adopted stands us well in hand: "The world's market mark-et for Utah products." We believe that the newspapers, in place of fighting this industry, should stand with us, hand in hand, to build more centralized creameries, that we might sell a thousand cars of butter to putside markets in place of having to buy eastern butter. Yours very truly, JENSEN CREAMERY CO. By I. N. Parker, Vicc-Pres. o . |