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Show J "V" i Should Have a Market Place 5 S , k We believe that it is about time " j vji' that Cedar City had a regular market ; at which all the fruit could be re tailed, and to which the fruit vendors $ could take their products. The pree- ' ont system of hawking the fruit from , '' f house to house is neither satisfactory ' -, ,'J- to the people having the fruit for sale .? nor the purchasing public. On the one f hand the majority of farmers as heartily dislike tho occupation of peddling ped-dling as anything they have to do. And on tho other hand it is anything but satisfactory to ladies and others - t to have to clamber into a man's wag on to. boo what he has to sell. And unless they do, unscrupulous vendors will of course pick out a few of tho , best specimens to exhibit, and the 1 , customer gets products altogether in- I ' 7 & " f orior to what they have been shown. I ''. ". Then again, the spring balances that I .- are almost universaly used by ped- j dlers is an abomination, and should be 'jm t condemned by tho state sealer of m ' . weights and measures. They are al- J. most invariably strained and fail to Jj record correct weight. By a little ma- M nipulation on the part of the peddler Jj ; '. he can increase the tendency towards w I h ' .-' short weight, and it is not infrequent- ffl r ly the case that the public on small m quantity purchases gets little more 9 than half as much as he pays for. 9 ,. It would be far more satisfactory M ' j" on both sides for the fruit to al! bo H i handled through the medium of a mar- m . , kct. |