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Show ALWAYS A Wltl'CKI'lt. Flush Competition Don't Meet It Has Heen The Fnckcr Motto. Tho big packers havo put tho Independents In-dependents out of business and reached rea-ched the point where they fix the prlco that the producer must tako on the one hand ami the consumer must pay on the other not by free and open competition, but by black-hand black-hand methods that would put "Little Italy" to shame A sample of park-er park-er methods Is shown In Utah at tho present time. In 190C the Ogden Packing & Provision Companywlth a paid up capital of $7, GOO built a small packing house in Ogden Its 'capacity was only 75 hogs, 100 sheep and 2C cattle a day. but even that exceeded the demand The man agoment had faith lu the lutsr-mountain lutsr-mountain country and started a propaganda pro-paganda for the growth of more hogs In Utah and Idaho. Tho railroads refused to help. Carrying cured meats from the east Into this count try was profitable and a company that proposed to fill tho demand with home grown and home killed meats was a bad actor from the railroad rail-road point of view. Tho propaganda propagan-da was successful however and tho hog Industry grew. The Ogden Tacking & Frovlslon Company kept pace with It and as the Ogden market mar-ket growe In Importance tho plant expanded until Its dally capacity was 1250 hogs, 1500 sheep and 300 cattle cat-tle It was becoming a factor In the meat producing business and so It was time for the vllllan to get litis) Cudahy was detailed to handle the Job of hnmslllnglng this dangerous oung competitor. The old bonus fishhook that has caught so many suckers In the past was brought out and leb.iRed. Re-piesentatlves Re-piesentatlves were sent to the Commercial Com-mercial organizations of Poc.itollo, Ogden and Salt Lake City proposing to erect a packing house provided a sufficient bonus was offered Salt Lake grabbed nt the ball nnd of-feied of-feied a $200,000 plant, $25,000 In each and a fourth Interest In the stock jards Tho Cudahy Company according to Its own report only made 191 per cent on Its stock for the fiscal ear 1915, so It needs a handout With this start tho Cudahy Cuda-hy plant can boom business and can loose a quarter of a million befoie they are put on even terms with the Ogden Packing & Provision Company. Com-pany. The game has been played before and when the Independent plant has been forced to the wall tho benefits of a competitive market disappear and monopoly has full sway. The packing business Is one of the greatest money markets In this nation na-tion today. It makes so much money mon-ey that Its beneficiaries are hunting for new avenues in which to spend it so that if a new packing plant was needed In the Intermountaln country some one of tho combine would be Johnny on tho spot without with-out any bonus. Tho Salt Lake bunch who aro engineering this deal aro either getting a rake off on tho deal or they are a bunch of suckers. |