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Show GROCERY WAR BS ON IN EARNEST Ogrden Wholesale Houses Are Cutting Prices, on Some Goods Selling Below Cost Merchants From All Over Utah Are Being Drawn Here to Buy 100 Bars of Soap for $3.20. 1 . more and quoted soap at the listed price. Tho retailer demurred, claiming claim-ing that be could beat that price. "All right." said the wholesale man, "If that is what is being done I will Just reduce that price ten cents " Then the retail man called up the other wholesale dealer over the "phone" and told him his competitor had cut the price on soap ten centn. A further reduced price was . telephoned tele-phoned in. It was met by the other man and reduced still lower, and thus the thing went on until the whole-falo whole-falo price of soap was cut to $3.20 $er 100 bars of "Crystal White." and $3 per 100 bare of "White Russian." This price was soon made known to tho local dealers and they all took a chance on immediate purchases. Just how long this competition will continue It problematical but it is eold that both wholesale houses are quite determined in their attltudo and, a6 one grocer put It. "that may b.v the prevailing price on soap lor tome time to come." i ' ; There Is a war of prices on be- . tween the Ogden Wholesale Grocery company and the t J. Klesel Wholesale Whole-sale company over the Ogden trade tnd as a -result' local grocery houses I' fcre obtaining goods at cost and even ! btlow cost. The conflict has been on j tome time and promises to continue, j The grocery war is attracting at- tention from the outside and merchants mer-chants from Brighara, Malad, Cache Valley, Coalville and other points aro comlug to Ogden to buy from the Og-: Og-: d-n retail trade, which is now able to j quote lower prices than are offered i on the outside to grocers. Soap is selling. 100 bars for $3,20. Rice, No. 1 Japan, 100 pounds for $3.75. Beans, navy, 100 pounds for $4 50. These quotations are Bald to be tdow cost Other groceries are being be-ing sold at cost and the public is look-li.g look-li.g forward to a corresponding cut in tiio retail prices. The fight was started by a clever retail grocery dealer in this city, who recently inado a 6harp deal with one of the local wholesale houses which resulted in getting the wholesale concerns con-cerns to bidding for the business; in other words, entering into Brisk com-tn-tltion, the result being that soap, usually wholesaling at from $3,55 to (3 75 per 100 bars, went down to $3 T'd $3.-0. and the prices have not f.t been raised to former figures. This Is the way it wan done: The wholesale man came Into the retail |