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Show PRICE OF BUTTER DROPS FIVE CENTS Idaho Importation Less Costly Than at the Opening of the Week. SALT LAKE. Dec. 17. Tho powers that be In the local buttor market yesterday decreed that consumers should bo given a Christmas present of 5 cents on the price of their butter. After trying for a fow days to soar at the 45-cent mark, out-of-state buttor but-tor yesterday dropped to tho rollablo 40 cents a carton rate, and the probability prob-ability is that this prico will obtain for tho rest of the year. When 5 cents "vas added to tho "package butter" price a week ago, it was declared by other local dealers that they would refuse to meet this price with their brands, and It was iiiii mii hum in i in i ! iii in ii nam predicted that the rebellion In the local markot against tho leaderahlp of the company which handles only Idaho Ida-ho butter, would break what hns boon known as tho butter trust and result in tho establishment of tho 40-ceut price as the maximum Indefinitely This prediction has been Justified Aside from tho legitimate profits and the profits accruing from market fluctuations, Utah creameries using the sliding scale of labeled wolghts make an additional profit of ?S 40 per hundredweight In nhort weights and overruns This is the declaration of Willard Hanson, state dairy and food corrimlssloner, -svho has Just complete! n thorough Investigation of the TJJah buttor situation. oo |