Show MUTUAL CREAMERY CANDID IN explaining POSITION exhaustive letter to record explains companas Comp anys position pillion in in matter of competition a in our issue of january 1 1 we carrieo agnews a news dispatch item announcing the beginning of a suit by an idaho creamery camery ci against the mutual company and made certain personal onal comment on the sime same relative to tle tic effect on the local cream station As ai the mutual indicates they ilig desire then their position made clear we reprint their letter so the people may judge for themselves in the matter it follows salt lake city jan 9 1931 editor sin san juan record recoil Montie Mont idello ello utah deir dear sir ve have hid had forwar forwarder dea to us by our grand junction I 1 colorado house an item out of yo your u r issue sue 0 of f january headed creamery ci earner is accused of unfair business this particular boise idaho news item was as very widely copied evidently due dm to the prominence of our firm and idaho papers seem to have taken a certain amount of smug satisfaction in the matter due no doubt to the fact that we tire are a utah corporation which has invested a huge sum of mone yin creamery plants in in idaho we believe though that the thousands of dollars we are a e expending for cream and our pay rolls in in the state of idaho are very desirable at the present time and this applies not only to the state of idaho but to th the e states of utah and colorado as well veil now as to the facts in in the matter the little creamery who made this lont complaint plaint against us did make it in good faith but they entirely entirely y m misunderstood n ler tood what con constituted ted price law di bisci im mation under the law while it is true that we may pay a different ancen different delit relit localities we vve nit art forced to d do 0 1 this many times not because we wish to do so but because competition forces us to do so after our manager at butte montana bad shown to the manager of the salmon cooperative copies of check stubs from two to other competing creameries crea meries in in the territory thus justifying the puce price we paid the cooperative creamery very kindly withdrew with diew then their complaint and having done so the abe attorney general of idaho was not interested in the matter further wl rind wired us that WL we did not have to appear at all the deplorable part of the whole thing of course was the unbelievable unbelief un belie able notoriety wo we were given by newspapers and we might say in in this connection that the article appeared appealed in in two silt salt lake papers before we sen even received a copy of the complaint here heie in in salt lake but the creamery shaving been satisfied to withdraw their complaint the attorney ato iney general 0 of f idaho having nothing to prosecute us on and so notifying us that we need not appear appeal and we e not being asked to appear the three of us s should h ou id be perfectly satisfied we do not think taink that the public carer care very much about our troubles but we believe you should in in fairness to us under tinder the circumstances give us its as aluc much h publicity now as you did when you received notice of the filing of the complaint we might say that the dairymen who receive deceive the extreme hl high b price for butterfat butt efat which is is paid duing these little price wars that occur from time to ko time have no particular objection to being well paid for hs his product and it makes no difference to him whether the price is a discriminating one or merely a competitive ore one the humorous part of the matter is is that tat with all the up tir about farm relief a hue and cry should he be raised in this instance because the farmer is is n too much money for his cream and that of course couise is the joke it should be evident to anyone who stops and thinks a moment that no concern colle ern can ion long pay more for cream than another firm and survive suave that is not the way competition presents itself in in this day and ige age the ri e only monopoly we are experiencing in abis industry at the present time is that which our own government is is ing to create among the e farm rs themselves the private corporation with money invested bcd in plants plant and which has in many instances as have we pioneered the dairy industry in the western states receives recedes lut but scant consideration from politicians we note your reference in your article to a cream station chic swift and company has at monticello and our paying price as follows since the installation of the monti cello cream station of swift and corn pany local cream shippers claim tha they have been receiving more foi their cream shipped to the futua creamery company of grand june tion than the mutual creamery Cie amery corn com pany banys s quotations published in in tn th grand junction sentinel the pric anc that is is published in in the paper is is t track price the cream is is shipped tf t grand junction parcel post on at al parcel post shipments a de deliverer deliver livere ei price pi ice is quoted of two cents over w u colorado track price and the pos jag is is deducted these are the fact facts ci 0 the matter swift and company w are sure are arc well able to take car of lot their own competition again here is is a case where the farmer ir i seemingly getting a good price to so his cream and we presume pies appt hat you yoi having the interests of the faglier farmer af heart are very well weil pleased that h gets whatever price that may determine regardless of whether the creamery buying the products makes a profit or not and that is is the correct attitude we have always endeavored to follow the laws as outlined we dc not class ourselves as criminals among our stockholders and the I 1 members of our board of directors tire are some of the most prominent people in utah as well as a great many mani farmers one of our heaviest stock holders and directors is our present governor george 11 dern and the esteem with which he is held we believe is is sufficient to warrant that anything with which he is connected Is of the highest standard yours very truly MUTUAL CREAMERY CO E J cashin general manager |