Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-19
EATABLES WAY Up.
COW THE COLD SNAP AFFECTED MILK BUT
TER, EGGS AND PROVISIONS GENERALLY.
Eggs Yesterday Sold as High as Forty TENS a
DOzsn-POulry Scarce Butter Also On Inc
Vacation, Veg tables Way Up and Fro-
visions Generally Up on he Top Shelk

visions Generally Up on he Top Shelt
Not all the readers, perhaps, fully re-
,lize how disastrous the recent cold
wave was to provisions aud how severe
" its effect was felt in hotels, restsu-
rants and domestic homes. With hens
not LAYING. cows slowing up on the
acteal fluid. cabbageS buried under
ground. and poultry and hogs clear up
In the TOP shelf in the matter Of prices
the outlook for while was anything
but rosy. The question has freq uentIy
arisen. how have the no tells, restau-
rants and homes been suppleo'
Well there has been no alternative
left. They have had to buy at she ad-
yanced prices, buy less, perhaps, and In
some cases substitutes for the genuine
article have been used as far as pos
sible. A few Of the restaurants and one
or two OF the hotels fortunately had In
big supply before the cold wave came
on and they have managed to struggle
through gracefully.
NO EXTREME WANT.
Wheeling has been fortunate in hav-
Ing few cases OF extreme want, and the
recent cold has caused little real suffer-
Ing here. Ii has been more a question
OF denial OF certain of the more high
priced eaAables 1t has been long
time since Wheeling has experienced
such a general rise over such range OF
provisions.
A noticeable feature is seen in eggs,
which have been bringing high prices
for some time. A dozen sold yesterday
Tor 40 cents. while % and 80 was freely
given. During the first two days
Of the week IS was the generally
accented price. The fact is the hens
won't Law in severe cold weather. Not
few people during the past week have
doubtless been eating eggs that we're
laid last summer, cold storage eggs
being wonderful keepers. Still even
the cold storage eggs ran short, ana
about the only thing left during the
past two days has been the porcelain
and the china eggs at the crockery
stores.
HOW ABOUT BUTTER.
For ten DAYS Wheeling has been prac-
Blcally out of country butter. I. A Nor
ris & Co, on Water St, are the largest
wholesale dealers in butter ia the city,
and they state that they had TO give up
trying 10 meet the demand several days
since. Even the packed butter was sold
out The cows refused 20 give the Gus
tomary quantity OF milk, and cOnse-
uuently the butter supply fell short.
The only recourse the firm had was
In creamery butter which has been
shipped 10 large quantities from ElgiR,
Ills. This sells at 80 cents, whereas
the country article ranged from Is TO
Ps, making quite a difference in the cost
10 large consumers The creamery
butter has been pretty generally used
by the large hotels and leading reStaur-
ants, while other places have reSOrted
TO oleOmargarine, or butterine, as 10 is
also called. The butterine is concOcted
so deity now that it is difficult to de-
tect it from the genuine.
OTHER sCARCITIEs.
Mr. Morris gets most Of his country
products from places along the Ohio
River road as far as Parkersburg, ship
ments being made daily. With the ad-
vent Of milder weather the supply will
likely be reDleniShed. Poultry has
been scarce on account OF the bad roads,
and in consequence the prices have
been sailing heavenward. The cold
wave has prevented shipment 10 a large
extent, as il was almost impossible
to keep the live birds from
freezing en- route. Onions have also
been scarce, aud the quality poor, while
potatoes, commodity which usually
remains unchanged, have also advanced
by reason Of large lots freezing. Cab
bage, parsnipS and turnipS are also up
10 high G.. The trouble with the cab
bage Is, the farmers buried large guam
titles IN the fall, and then after the cold
wave froze the ground so tight, they
could not open up the ground TO get at
them. The REGISTER reporter was
talking with one farmer yesterday who
had 70 barrels Of cabbage 10 one Of these
subterranean trenches, but he couldn't
get at 'em. Dried apples are also high,
largely from the scarcity Of apples in
this section,
THE HOG SITUATION.
Not for twenty years have hogs been
Is high as they are to-day. "Why, l
remember during the war" said Mr..
Thomas, OF the firm OF Goodhue &
Thomas, "that hogs reached the $40
mark, and for a short time after they
were quite high. / reCOllect that paid
500 myself for one hog. But it was
particularly big one, weighing some
thing like 500 pounds But, just think
of Il now, yOU can almost buy a horse
for SEQ There are two things that
have caused hogs 10 60 up this year,
not so many raised, and the foreign de-
mand increased.
Why, hogs got so cheap a short time
ago that farmers quit raising them,
there being no money In them. They
were selling as low as So so. The re-
suit is this year we are 200, 700 hogs
short, and 10 addition to this 1000, 600
pounds OF lard have been shipped
abroad, as well as great quantities
Of pork having been taken of.
Schenck q Sons are receiving hogs
from Chicago and Illinois right along,
but they command a high price, SS25.
Even az these figures there is not much
money in 10 for the dealers here, as hogs
are selling In Chicago at $50.
GREAT DEMAND FOR COAL.
There has not been any famine In