Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
ERA OF HIGH Prices.

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sugar at $500 per hundredweight re-
call the era before tile advent q l -.l
Mckinley law in April, 1890, when the
price OF su gar ranged from IS to 50 per per
| hnndtedweigiit. Almost no ci1angs
4 has occurred In the sugar sch ules
since the Mckinley law removed two
cents per pound from sugar, which i'm.
mediately fell to So per hundred with
| the removal of the tariff tax. And now
that even sugar is rising again II seems
| evident that an era Of high prices IS
upon the country. Within fifteen years,
according to the reports of the trade
journals, the price of lumber IN the
East has advanced from GO to nv per
cent. Largely because OF the increase.
I'm the cost OF building material, rents
are likewise very high,
In a Journal of the hide and leather
trade, packer hides are SAID to be
from 3 to Is cents dearer than at this
time last year, and that certain ain other
hides are 7scents per pound higher. "a q!
fact, the general price-lis OF hides udsss ls,.
lii many details, higher than 1t has ever sN'ss
been before. 3s4
The high price Of meat, especially
over all the Eastern states, has caused
some to suggest that the era Is 8rapidly
apnroaching when the rule in CONT
mental Europe, meat once a Week
will have to be adopted by the work
Ling people Of AMERICA. This prospect
| to a PEOPLE who, as Carlisle observeu,
have always had plenty to cal, Is
| by no means Il pleasing one, and manly
of the people are speaking out, through
the papers their condemnation of the
conditions responsible for high prices
HoIlister Sage declares that the WORK
|ingSpeoplei must continue to have their.
three square, meals per day, or W. W.,
\ are going to decline in force as u ma
tion.,,S THE poor he continues are
told that they must buy cheaper cuts
A But where are those cheaper cuts *
They are not to be found in any mar
ket. Even the poor mans steak
/ troundJ Is IA to Is cents a pound II
i fresh A few years ago We WINGED
when the market man said IS and 20
cents for loin and porterhouse steaks
/ we bought round ait 10 and ~ cents.
Fresh coup stock, pot roasts and stew
| ing pieces at 5 to s cents We're com
mon: plate pieces, soup bones anu
shank were sold even more cfeaplS
TO get rid OF them. Take down the re-
.ceiver today and telephone your mar
ketman to send You a piece OF meat
for any purpose at 10 cents and see
what you will get 1t Will be delivered
promptly (bS wirel."
Then he goes on to show that tho
farmer does not receive much Of the
advance In the price of provisions, and
declares that the producer gets but
| little more for beef, mutton and pork
| than ten years ago II you doubt
lithis,," he says, "look in the morning
paper for wholesale quotations on live
stock and dressed beef. New York;
Beeves. receipts 1895 head; Feeling
steady. Dressed beef dull at &c q 1o1ac.s
London and Liverpool markets: Cattle
and beef unchanged. Chicago: Re
ceipts. 5000 head. Market steady
steers 5511sscsa TIC. Hogs, choice, heavy,
s7.65 a s7,S5f per cwt. :"
He then quotes the price Per 100
| pounds of cattle, hogs and sheep in
| Chicago In 1908 and in 1908 as follows:
Cattle s7.44 now and $40 then; hcgs
81. 60 this year and $500 last year; sheep
$615 in 1909 and $50 in 1908 These
| quotations from the market summaries
show that the producers have not
reaped the golden harvest, and that that
there lis too great a difference between
| the buying and the selling prices.