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Show I NO AUSTRALIAN MEATS FOR OGDEN Ogden nieat dealers were much interested in-terested in the importations of meats from Australia, when four steamer were purchased to tram-port the lor-eign lor-eign product to San Francisco The success of the movement meant eventually the in". aion of the Ogden market with the possibility of a breaking down of profits to a very' small margin. But of late there has been a feeling feel-ing of relief. Ogdcnites from the coast report the Australian beef as uninviting in color and not to be compared with the American article, when tested by the palate. Had Australian meats been brought in by the shipload, to undersell local dealers, our local packing mdustry would have suffered and the price ot cattle would have dropped A small decrease in meat prices would be a good thing for the general consumer as cattle are too high, but a heavy suddeu reduction might so disorganize disorgan-ize the industry as to cripple it for years to come. The American government in now inquiring Into these meat importations importa-tions and the prospects are Australian meats must undergo thorough inspection, inspec-tion, either at the place of slaughter slaugh-ter or be subjected to Inspection on arrival at Amencnn ports. That fs proper. The government requires interstate in-terstate shipments of meats to be passed on and should he equally as exacting in dealing with foreign Importations Im-portations At one time, the United States government, gov-ernment, in the name of the Chicago Chi-cago packers, objected to Germany prescribing the rules of inspection to be followed before American baleen and hams wojld be allowed to enter German ports. This country was then far behind Germany In pure food regulations and nearly all the leading lead-ing papers of the United States denounced de-nounced the Germans and urged retaliation re-taliation in trade restrictions. Looking Look-ing back, we all must concede Germany, Ger-many, In driving the Chicago packers to accept rigid federal inspection In their packing houses, did this country coun-try a great service, as that anion led to the present laws on that subject. sub-ject. When the first .''unoiinr-ement was made that refrigerated meats from the antipodes was to bo brought in a group of local men had planned to represent the importers in the lutcr-mountaln lutcr-mountaln country, but this latest word from the coast as to the unsalable unsal-able condition of the Imported article, ar-ticle, has dissipated the m heme into thiu air |