The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-11
THE FESTIVE POREER
Now Distinguished and Much
Sought Individual,
PRICES 60 UP ANOTHER NOTCH
And arc Almost Certain to Advance
Still Moreno Relief to BIO Expected
Until Late In tho spring-How tho
Present Condition Affects the Hotels
and Restaurants,

Another week has gone, and still the
various products of the festive porker
continue to rise, another half cent be-
ing added onto the quotations yester-
day at the Wheeling stock yards. The
quotations arei
Extra, TAO and ~ centsi Good, n
aud 1855 cents Common, 0! and 7 cents.
Scarce supply and heavy demand"
Lard, bacon and hams keep pace with
pork, aud can be fairly classed as the
luxuries OF the hour,
The quotations at the great western
pork ceRtOrs Rre Just Us high as the To-
cal quotations, and though it ia claimed
there Is corner on pork, the advances
since early last fall cannot be entirely
ascribed to that fact,
A well known stock man speaking OF
the matter yesterday said: "Ihe prime
cause OF the present almost prohlbltiye
prices is In the very general scarcity OF
hogs. We have adyices from the west
cIu COuHbI1I WHAGl LGlA va tAo lA'llNlR
of in the immediate supply OF hogI Is
universal, This falling of can only be
explained by tho extremely low prices
that prevailed all ever the country last
summer, which caused q suspension OF
hog raising among a large proportion Of
the farmers, and only because there
was no money in it for them. Conse-
quently there is no immediate sufficient
supply and naturally prices have ad-
vunced TO the present high figures.
There will BIO no relief to the consumer
until next summer, by which time 1t Is
expected tho farmers can supply the
demand. In the meantime the prices
arc almost certain TO climb above the
present high notch"
1t will DO seen that the consumer OF
pork and other hog products can OK
pect no immediate relief.
a PECULIAR PHASE
connected with the present conditions
was brought to light yesterday.
An INTELLIoENoER reporter called on
n restauranter in the afternoon, and
had an interesting conversation.
How does the rise in pork strike
you"
mot with soothing paw by any
means. Pork, hama and sausage all
cost us nearly twice US much now as
they did last summer, We use more Of
pork products than any other kind Of
meat, and rise Of even cent pound
is no inconsequental matter, so you can
nopil,v non khot Tho no harbikont t1stonb
now charged cripple US badly. have
counted up the difference between last
summers prices and those now charged,
and find we pay out S25 more every week
than we did then. Itknocks tho profits
in our business silly"
"Another feature is the increase in
pork consumption, caused partly Of
course by tho cold weather, and partly
from the characteristic OF Americans
who always want to patronize anything
that comes high or is in the nature OF q
luxury"
Two hotel men wero also seen and
both said that tho high price OF pork
bears hard on them. One said the diff.
ference in the cost OF pork and ham at,
his hosiery, each week over q similar
period last summer amounts to at least
$50.
II one hotel loses that amount each
week, the loss to the entire pork con.
summing population, OF Wheeling must
be something tremendous.
At Bellaire yesterday hogs sold at 10
cents, the highest since 1868, when the
price ran up to 0 and 10 cents, and re.
manned at that figure for some time.