Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-14
LOCAL RETAIL DEALERS
SAY END Is NOT REACHED
Prices Generally Have Advanced From
Five to Twenty Per Cent In Few
weeks-RetaiIsrs Deny That They
Are Making Big Profits-conditions
here Better Than In Other cities.

causes of the increased cost OF Nv
Ing, the price of necessities. more
particularly food stuffs, are advanc-
ing daily and retailers predict tnat
the end is not yet. During the past
few weeks meats OF ak kinds, Hour
butter. sugar, vegetables and other
food stuffs have advanced In cost
from Ave to twenty per cent and IL
is said that some of the house wives
of newport News as well as In many
other cities are having hard time
in making both ends meet.
Local reta.. dealers say that they
are forced to pay the beef trusts from
eight to nine cents pound for whole
beefs, this being an increase OF two
cents over the prices paid only few
weeks ago. Pork ioins cost at whole
sale fifteen cents per pound. while
dressed hogs are bringing eleven ana
one-balf cents per pound. This is an
Increase OF three cents on the pound.
Mutton Is ten cents wholesale and
lamb is twelve and one-half cents. an
increase in each instance OF two cents.
Sausage brings ten cents, an increase
OF two cents.
increase In Retail Prices.
Retail dealers are selling sirloin
steaks ct fifteen cents. porterhouse
steaks at eighteen and twenty cents,
round steaks at from twelve and one
half to fifteen cents. Stew beer Is
bringing from eight to ten cents per
pound and chuck roast cost from ten
to twelve cents pound. PORK
chops and pork roast sell at from
sixteen to eighteen cents pound
These prices represent an Increase OF
from two to four cents per pound and
are the highest that have prevailed
here In many day.
The advanced cost of wheat and
corn are given by the packers as the
causes for the increase In the price OF
meats. The packers also claim that
the retailers are making big profit
In the sale OF beef and pork, but this
the local retailers deny most en-
phaticaily. One CT them said yester-
day that he pays from eight to nine,
cents for a beef and sells 1t at ten
cents. which is but little profit when
the waste Is taken into consideration.
OF course, some of the retailers get a
slightly better price than tnis.
Flour Makes BIG Advance.
Flour has advanced 81 a barrel in
the past thirty days and the dealers
say Il viii go even higher. This i'm
mense increase is caused by ever ad-
yaucing price Of wheat on the Chicago
beard OF trade. Corn meals also has
advanced in price recently. due to the
increase In the price OF corn.
Butter IL included In the general
advance. certain brands Of IL bringing
80 high as 40 l-2 cents per pound
wholesale. Sugar also has advanced
to $500 on the hundred pounds. Two
or three local retailers sell it at 5 and
l-2 per cent, but the majority sell II
at six cents a puond. Eggs also are
on the increase. due 10 a scarity In
the market.
= Ham and bacon are advancing along
with the other articles. both bringing
fifteen cents wholesale and retailing
at eighteen and twenty cents. Smith
field cured hams, OF course. are much
higher. the prices quoted being those
brought by being cured in the big
packing houses OF the West.
Cabbage Co Up. Too.
Cabbage have increased in price
from SIS to $40 a ton within few
months and are hard to get atseyen
the high figure quoted. Six-pound
cans Of corn bees. roast and boiled
beef. which six months ago sold for
Sc dozen are TOW bringing sl0.5o
per dozen
A comparison OF the prices made by
local retailers with those made by
the retailers Of Norfolk. Richmond
and other cities show that people
here are more fortunate than those
In the other cities. Eggs are bringing
30 and As cents a dozen liz Norfolk.
while certain brands Of butter retail
at from 50 to 50 cents per pound In
the city across Hampton Roads. Like
wise the prices 90 beef pork. and cur
d meat In Norfolk and Richmond are
frnnl one cent TO three cents higher