The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-11-24
CONSUMERS GETTING CURIOUS
Butchers and Market Men Admit That
There is a Slight Decline but Elk
pect the Packers to Boost the Price
Again in Short Time.

Assertions, contradictions and inter
rogations in regard to the prevailing
prices of meat filled the air in Kenosha
today but it is impossible to get any
statement from local meat dealers that
shows that the big drop in prices has
hit this city and no two dealers seem
to take the same view OF the condl-
tions. One of the dealers in Kenosha
admits that the price of all meats has
fallen and to back it up he shows that
he is offering meat at several cents
below the price asked for it week
ago but the general condition in Ken
osha shows that the market here has
not been hard hit by the democratic
landslide. The big packers In Chicago
and other cities have quoted prices
to show that the era of high prices is
passed but the little dealers declare that
these statements are misleading and
that the falling off in prices
is in great part mirage. They admit
that the big surplus of turkeys in the
country has resulted in the price of the
Thanksgiving Day bird dropping two
cents under the price of last year in
Kenosha and it is admitted that the
price may yet be lower before Thanks
giving day. They admit that pork is
off two cents just at present but that
the old price may be put in working
order again without notice. They admit
that bacon is down and out, that in very
fact bacon can be bought as low as IL
cents a pound over the counters in Ken
osha and that they would be glad to
get rid of "this bacon' at that or
any other price but that the real dyed
in the wool bacon is still soaring about
IS cents a pound whereas some time
back they got as high as forty cents
a pound.
One of the Main street dealers said
today: TThis talk is all caused by a
lot of paper men who don t know what
they are talking about. The price of
beef On hoof has dropped twenty cents
OH the hundred pounds and now you
just figure out how much of reduction
this will mean on the retail price of
meat. There are lot of cheap cattle
on the market at present and the price
being charged for this meat is a little
lower than the prices charged week
or SO ago. However this meat would
not be accepted by our trade and if we
get any Of it it is for restaurants and
hotels and not for the general trade.
First class native beef is worth just
as much today as it was week ago
and in fact the price is little higher.
The packers are regulating these prices
and there has been no material reduc-
tion. If we want to buy second grade
meat we could give it to the people a
little cheaper but the people of Ken
osha are not purchasers in that mar
ket.'
Efforts to find the reduction were the
same in all down town markets and it
seems that while there may have been
a slight falling off in some prices the
small consumer will hardly be able to
see the result of these reductions. In
Chicago it is declared that the price
has been reduced on all meats to the
amount of close to five cents On the
pound but no such reductions have been
made In Kenosha.
The Chicago prices for week ago
and for now as given in the Chicago
Record Herald are as follows:
This week Last week.