Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-07

a material advance over the CORE
spending month of one year ago, and
| in nearly all cases marked advance
over the corresponding month ten
years ago. Raw cotton for instance,
which showed 11.3 cents per pound as
! the average price in April. 1897, was
/ 1874 cents per pound in April, 1906. and
212 cents per pound in April, 1907.
Manila hemp, which was $71.72 per
ton in April, 1897. was $192.17 per ton
in April, 1906, and s197.11 per ton in
| April, 1907. Sisal grass, which is quite
| similar to hemp in its characteristics
! and used in the manufacture Of cord
/ age, ropes, etc., was $61.04 per ton in
April, 1897; s152.0s per ton in April.
1905, ando $159.s6 in April 1907. In
dia rubber, which averaged 50.2 cents
per pound in April, 1897, was so.7 cents
i per pound in April 1906, and 1873 cents
lrer pound in April, 1907. Tin plates,
which were reported at "a cents per
pound in April, 1897, were 3 cents per
pound in April, 1906, and 3.4 cents per
pound in April. 1907 Raw silk which
was reported at an average valuation
/ of $3.50 per pound in April 1897, was
1855 per pound in April 1906, and SASS
per pound in April, 1907. Leaf tobac-
co, suitable for wrappers, which aver
aged 97.5 cents per pound in April,
1897, was Sill per pound in April,
1905, and $3.50 per pound in April,
1907.
In food stuffs the advance has not
been as strongly marked, but occurs in
several articles. In rice, the average
import price per pound In April, 1897,
was 19 cents; in the same month OF
1905, 2.7 cents, and in the correspond
ing month of 1907, 81 cents per pound.
OF tea, the average import price in
April, 1907, was 81 cents per pound;
lin the same month of 1908, II cents;
land in the corresponding month OF
1897, 1873 cents per pound. Sugar,
quoted at an average import price OF
81 cents per pound in April, 1897, was
POS cents in April, 1905. and I2.0S cents
in April, 1907, showing a slight reduc-
ton in 1905 and 1907 as compared with
1897. Coffee also shows a slight re-
duction, having averaged 1913 cents per
pound in 1897, 9.5 cents in April, 1906,
and cents, per pound in April, 1907.
Cheese imported, on the other hand,
shows an advance from an average OF
1871 cents per pound in April, 1897, to
17.2s cents17.2 cents in the same month
in 1906 and 17.9 cents in the corre-
spending month in 1907. Mackerel,
which shows an average of Az cents
per pound in April, 1897, was 5.S cents
in April 1905, and 81 cents per pound
in April, 1907.
Cotton cloth, unbleached, for in
stance, averaged 10 cents per square
ydEQ IN Tue uSSdi year 1000 ooe ANS aA'o
cents in the fiscal year 1906. Bleached
cotton cloth averaged Il cents per
square yard in 1899, against 16. cents
in 1906. Flax, per ton, averaged $201.s1
in 1896 against s266.62 in 1906. Hemp
averaged s121.06 per ton in 1899 against
$40 in 1906. Manila hemp, per ton,
averaged s6444 in 1898 against s1S7.90
in 1906. Jute, averaged $22.49 per ton
in 1896 and s62.05 per ton in 1906. In
llia rubber, crude, averaged AL cents
per pound In 1895 against 70 cents in
1906. Rice, per pound. averaged 11s
ceEts for the fiscal year 1895 against
gig cents in the fiscal year 1906. Pig
tin avarased 1873 cents pc. ;sound in
1897 against 1873 cents in 1895 Cloth
ing WpJl * eraged IL cents per pourd
in 1912. ssa,,,s; "A cents per p 'unls in
1896: con.b ne wool, 10 cents II !aC2,
aga ms en- average of % cats ia 1905.
and CARPET wool an average ri cents
per pound in 1902, against an averag e
of IA cents per pound in 1905.
$ These figures indicate that wages
have gone higher. they have not passed
the cost of living in the race for the
top.