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Show I SALT LAKE WANTS SUGAR. One longhand loud complain! comes out of Salt Lake. It. seems ! thatthc sugar companies have .ones of marketing which are' well de- j ..fined. So when the Amalgamated Sugar Company of Ogden rcccnt-L rcccnt-L ly released 2500 bags of sugar at $13.73 a bag and none of the sugar 1 4 was distributed in Salt lLakc, the consumers in the capital, who are paying $25.25 a hundred pounds, made a vigorous protest and dc-j dc-j manded relief. m The Amalgamated people replied that, inasmuch as Salt Lake "U in Utah-Idaho Sugar company territory, they felt no obligation I "rested on them to quiet the clamor. ! James' Astlc, secretary' of the Utah-Idaho "Wholesale Grocers' Association, made, this statement yesterday: I ' "Requests from retail houses for this sugar have poured m I upon local jobbers.. Salt Lake consumers have been waiting for an I opportunity to purchase sonic of this cheap sugar. This is a false i hope. Foiir hundred bags of this sugar was allotted to Salt Lake jobbers, but the consignment is to be sold in Amalgamated territory, ' -.which does not extend farther south than Ogden. Salt Lake is m j -the territory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The sugar allotted "to Salt Lake firms has practically all been sold within the Amalgamated Amalga-mated territory. Beet sugar is selling to Salt Lake retailers at $24.o0 a bag and cane at $2-1.60. Stephen H. Love, sales manager of the Utah-Idaho fcugar company, com-pany, said' that the Utah-Idaho company was under no agreement 4 hat 'would keep the sugar allotted by the Amalgamated out of Salt Lake. " "As far as the Utah-Idaho is concerned, the company is not trying try-ing to have the sugar barred from Salt Lake, and is under no agreement agree-ment with the Amalgamated which prohibits that company from idling its product here," he declared. Ogden jobbers are now accepting their allotments of the sugar placed on the market at $13.73 by the Amalgamated Sugar company, according to Floyd T. Jackson, special agent, acting in charge of the Salt Lake offiec'ot' the bureau of investigation of the United States department of justice. The sugar is selling to the consumer at 1G cents a pound. . There is one delect in the method of distribution of the sugar allotted to Ogden and other towns in Amalgamated territory. Restrictions Re-strictions should be enforced to prevent the sugar going out of this district and thereby failing to reach the horned. ! From now "on the sugar company should insist on the policy adopted by the Western Sugar Company in Colorado, where the con- sinners arc receiving 15-ccnt sugar and where all dealers are re- quired to prove that their allotments are not being speculated in to the embarrassment of the homes of Colorado. The sugar being distributed should be exclusively for local con- sumption and not for speculative purposes. |