The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-27
I%lMpERING WITH
SpUDSAND EGGS
v.f,a Price 81 a eushel-WdI
Co to ST. 50 by Nay IS.
EASTERN EGGS CoRNtREn
,rrcr WILL BE FELT LOCALLY
NExr WINTER

DorAroEs are going to cut a s,sa
y 6rtve in the LEGAL market before
l t5s frugal housewife is prepared
,-a The cost Of subsistence on
" Of the fancy prices demanded
so- ge7t poultry eggs ana oth5t
gssrr articles. Good ola spais
,,T retailing at 81 q Dusiiei ma
,Lrs are predicting that D HIles
uH Gar until bv May 10, $L30 WIN DC
uIlInz quotation. New potatoes
tr =, I'M the market soon. but IL VIII
hi r-fu July /. gardeners declare,
t5e new crop viii be low enough
49, 10 force down the old crop 10
-ls-s cannot recollect when pOta-
.o~~srded so high a price as
~ 5a r0v. This is accounted Ior
~ fact that not so many spuus
m77.r last wear ia this state as IS
W. .+ towers consequently BAD
-~5fy 10 acquire the popular
m brost'n- prices early In the
..eo1 Very few potatoes were X
.-+s5 from titan during the fan and
- virtar. ard f. is not known that
o. carload Of spuds came INFO the
..,s from Idaho. because or the TaI-
m The grou there, 1Or from Cci0-
u-5n which Titan has frequent
I-str when 4 scarcity was imml-
,sBf 10 the local market
Reserve Stock Tied Up.
7, is generally conceded that thc
-~uizsion merchants have the supply
-~o.atoes Dr. ttv well ~c0rnered. They
tsva been anticipating 5ust such a
condition and In preparation for II
several carload lots were contracted
49, uaeks ago ga The rural districts. as
fsr uorrb as Cache and as far soutl
ssriar county, 20 be shipped on or
5sr some handsome profits viii, as q
-ssult. be taken down by the SAT- Lake
sgd ogden wholesalers.
salt Lake is uoI the only place u
fsrus with q CorueTed market. In Dem
re- potatoes are w~holesaIing at 81 80 q
fuzbel. and even in Chicago the price
Ia $500 with "a certainty Of a further
advance Of probably a third.
Eggs ara Higher.
Eggs are high. 7 knew, but they
ale relatively cheaper Cnd VIII go
farther az % cents a dozer than a
round of beef steak declared a deals
cr Yesterday who sells more eggs in an
hour than "a Chiuele cook could count
10 4 das.
The produce mans remark was pro-
gokei after reading about ae higher
prices for meat and potatoes and the
news from Chicago that the big pagk-
hg l0uses are tornerjuE the egg mar
ket in preparation fes next winters
export trade through tie east and even
70 che mountain states. A year ago
eggs vera retailing gt Is cents and the
Brcs per case was 50 cents less than
6 Is n0H' There IS no particular rea-
son for the higher price, except that
q costs more 10 feed chickens gain
ard min stun than 81 did last spTIlg,
and chicken raisers are not sioe. 10
take advantage OF an opportunity to
get less than q half q cent an egg more
Tor what they have 20 sell.
With reference TO the c~ornering of
The esq market in the middle west
states, dealers explain that The cor
nerng viii not extend TO Utah nor any
Of the mountain states at this time.
but next fal. and winter the effect viii
BE- iH evidence. 40 eggs are shipped
from Utah 90 points east. but ia cold
Eeather. when the product is scarce.
eggs by the carload are imported from
the states along the Mississippi and
Missouri river valleys.
Last fan and winter eastern eggs
helped TO supply the l5-al markets and
wholesalers declare that the cornerfng
now going on I'm the east Is for the
purpose of putting the product Of the
henneries at lowest prices I'm cod
storage until the chance comes IN six
months hence 10 double the money in
vested.