Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-15
THE RANGE OF PRICES

The annual report on wholesale
prices just published by the bureau
of labor, department Of commerce and
labor, in Bulletin No. 81, shows that
wholesale prices in 1909, as measured
by the 257 commodities included in
it's recent investigation, advanced 3
per cent over the wholesale prices
in 1908, but, with this advance, they
were still 2.3 per cent below the aver
age of 1907, the year of highest prices
within the period 1890 to 1909.
Wholesale prices in 1909 were 14.5
per cent higher than in 1900; Al per
cent higher than in 1892. the year of
the lowest prices from 1890 to 1909;
IL per cent higher than in 1890; and
26.5 per cent higher than the average
price for the ten years 1890 to 1899.
The highest point reached in 1907
was in October, from which month
there was a general decline until
August, 1908. Beginning with Sep
TENDER, 1908, there has been a month
ly increase without break up to
March, 1910. Wholesale prices in
March, 1910, were higher than at any
time in the preceding twenty years,
being rs per cent higher than in
March, 1909, 1912 per cent higher than
in August, 1908, 21.1 per cent higher
than the average yearly price OF 1897,
and 1873 per cent higher than the av-
erage price for the ten years 1890 to
1899.
OF the 257 articles for which whole
sale prices were obtained, 125 show
ed an increase in the average price
for 1909 as compared with 1908, 81
showed no change, and 1O1 showed
a decrease.
OF the nine groups under which
the commodities are classified, six
showed an increase in price in 1909
as compared with 1908, the largest
of increase being in farm
products, namely, $50 per cent. Lum-
Der and building materials increased
40 per cent, food, etc., 3.4 per cent,
cloths and clothing 2.3 per cent, and
drugs and chemicals 1.S per cent,
while the miscellaneous group in
creased 80 per cent. The three
groups in which the wholesale prices
decreased were house furnishing
goods 20 per cent, fuel and lighting
IL per cent, and metals and imple-
ments 0.5 per cent.
The average wholesale price of raw
for 1909 was 90 per cent
higher than in 1908, while in March,
1910, it was 15.5 per cent higher than
the average for 1908 and SO per cent
higher than the average for 1909.
The average wholesale price of manu-
featured commodities for 1909 was IA
per cent higher than for 1908, and in
March, 1910, it was 7.2 per cent high
err than the average for 1908 and 81
per cent higher than the average for
1909; the March, 1910, price also
showed an increase of 10 per cent
over January, 1910, and of O.S per cent
over February, 1910.
Among the articles showing marked
increases in price in 1909 were choice
to extra steers, which increased "a
per cent from February to November;
cotton, which advanced 1912 per cent
from January to December; heavy
hogs, 36.7 per cent from January to
December; light hogs, 1863 per cent
from January to December; hops, 2O4
per cent from January to November;
Elgin creamery butter, 1863 per cent
from May to December; dairy butter,
52.9 per cent from March to Deem
Der; winter wheat -four, 442 per cent
from January to June; lard, 1913 per
cent from February to December;
short clear bacon, 46 per cent from
February to December; short rib ba-
con, asa per cent from February to
December; milk, SS.9 per cent from
June to December; coke, 81 per cent
from June to October; rubber, 719
per cent from February to October.
Of the decreases in prices within
the year 1909 the most noticeable
are as follows: Oats declined 1874
per cent from May to October; wheat,
23.1 per cent from May to September;
spring wheat flour, 1914 per cent May
to September; spring wheat flour, 1914
per cent from June to September;
and glucose, 34.4 per cent from Sep
TENDER to December.
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