Show AN association OF SALT MAKERS yesterday we me published a dispatch from pittsburg ritts burg announcing the proposed formation of 0 a national salt company the tile avowed object of which is to keep up tho the price of that necessary article utah salt manufacturers with euch such an exam example alc plc should no longer hesitate to take the Moi a niNo HERALDS advice offer d some time since our suggestion waa was that all producers of bait salt in this locality unite themselves into a commercial association to handle their manufacture and to compel fair prices in other words wo we advised the people to fight monopoly with its own weapons wea probably the hint was not deemed worthy of acceptance cep tance then but this action of men in the east may open the eyes of local producers and cause them to view the MORNING IlE HALDe proposition with bayor there is imperative reason for the immediate accomplishment of this end butte is determined to force the union pacific into a great ic te from the present price of salt the demand of the mill men is we believe that the company shall deliver salt at butte for per iper ton original cost in included e eluded if manager potter concedes concede s this where will mill the burden fall on the union pacific alone not if manager potter can avoid it doubtless ho he will in turn demand a reduction from the present starvation price paid to the producer and ho be may be able to act off one salt malcer maker against another until his point can be gained unless the interests of producers are united firmly to present a solid fro front titto to the agurci aggressive selfishness of the union pacific the salt producers must act and act at once if they will hold their own in the coming contest |