The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-24
Some Price Statistics.

The groups show advances as follows:
Farm products. 39,S; food etc. 1877
timber and building materials, 1876; mis-
celaneous commodities, 14.I: cloths and
clothing, 100; fuel and lighting. CO..
housefurnlshing goods. SO; metals and
implements. IS
a decline was shown for drugs and
chemicals amounting to 2.9 per cent.
1t was shown that the greatest ad
vances have taken place in the products
OF the soil.
The committee criticised the use Of
forests by saying TINT there had been a
large consumption without any particu-
lar attempt to replace the timber. The
report stated that in view OF the fact
that the. increases have been so much
greater in products coming either d.
recuy or indirectly from the farms than
In anY other line. excepting products OF
the forests. the conclusion must be
reached that the most important cause OF
tho present advance Is to be found In
study OF farm conditions.
AS to Food Prices.
Concerning the advance In the cost OF
food. the report says:
The supply OF government available
rally reduced and the ranges are being
rapidly cut up into homes for settlers. The
cost of producing 1.-Two stock has material
ly increased with the disappearance OF
cattle on domestic pasture and high
priced lands"
Concerning retail prices tho report
shows that in the United States in the
spring OF 1910 they We're at tho highest
point In many years. AS compared with
the spring of 1900. prices for bacon We're
more than 20 per cent higher, ham 80 per
cent higher. flour about 30 per cent high
cr. butter about a. per cent higher. sugar
about IL per cent higher and eggs 100
per cent higher.
4 few articles. such as coffee and tea.
were about the same price as In 1900. but
practically no articles OF food were low
or than In 1900, Furniture was about the
same as In 1900. Earthcnware was slight
~ lower Shoes and clothing were con-
sidcrably higher.
Wages have not advanced as rapidly
as have prices" the report says. "and
practically all labor difficulties that have
been the subject OF mediation IN the
United Statos during tho last two or three
years have had as their basis the ad-
vanced cost OF living
IL is shown. however, that the advance
IN wages has been more rapid in tho
United States than Ill European countries
The report says;
Wages Don't Keep Pace.
''wages In the United States advanced
in about the same degree did prices.
until 1907 Salaries have been advanced
but little during the last ten years"
occupations are shown to have been re-
duced. This reduction affected the
weekly earnings OF employees for tho
reason that the large majority OF wage
earners arc employed on the piece scale
basis or on an hourly rate. From 1900 to
1907 full time weekly earnings advanced
l76 per cent There arc no figures for
years subsequent TO 1907,
The tariff is discussed at great length
and tho conclusion was reached by the
majority OF tho committee that II had
becn no material factor In causing the
advance In prices during the last dec
ndc."
Few figures are available to Indicate
what had been the effect OF tho recent
tariff revision.
Tho majority report says there alc
many Industrial combinations that arc
not trusts i'm tho sense OF being organ
lied to control prices in restraint OF
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