New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-15
MEAT TO CO STILL HIGHER
Vacation Season On and Market
Men Wear Long Faces.
MANY BLAME BEEF TRUST"
Cav Excuses for Increase Are
Not Consistent-0nly Mutton
and Lamb Prices Down.

,-,.b hig share OF the housekeepers out
=. ,ovr, and the wholesale prices UP any
-.,srA from 70 cents to $50 a hundred
...sqbt the meat dealers OF Washington
,,.~Sa. and others looked blue yesterday.
eor,A Of the larger retail stands that buy
A. be quantities ahead were selling al last
..aot's prices. but the majority OF the little
,.rows were quoting prices something Ike
these.
r,,-,arhouse. q cents: sirloin. - cents;
-, I, cents; prime rib roast. p cents;
ro.s+ %. legs of mutton. Il and 10;
ss...o,,sr-sr Of lamb. lS; hindouarter Of
- ao. 1oiu chops. *: veal outlets 30;
veal flet 8
=, 30 suro grass fed beef was going for
-. Ices one dealer offered sirloin or
so-..-bouse OF that quality for IS cents.
-. .ool, a aver yesterday. too. For loins
80 ,,bolesalers we're asking from 16 10 II
'lo -ornd the retailers declared Many
-. confident that they would have
rork left on their hands in not weather II
L.,stad the price closed out what
.,.v had and swore they would not BUY
.,otber pound. The only reasons nle nesn
q vss,erday's market was either mutton or
lamb
osc,sls Of the big packing houses had
r,,,A 70 say about the situation except 10
-a,.e-ata that the rise this time was surely
Are N the burning up" Of the West by
s-ou-b. r. ogden Armour insisted that
ere scarcity was altogether natural Nauss
brothers. Of Harlem, large retailers, pro-
svced shipment figures from Chicago. Pitts
Nu,gb Buffalo and Jersey CITY % show
That there was no marked scarcity IN the
carloads ~ cattle or hogs. Last weeks
cattle receipts showed 5s0Sl. and for the
c-4vious week they were 6025l. as against
receipts Of O.l& for the Arst week IN
August. 1910. and $40 for the second week.
washington Market men wore long faces
yesterday High prices mean fewer sales
ana less weight al A sale. The dealers
were chary about mentioning higher prices.
They acknowledged, however. that the
higb water mark hadn't been reached yet,
and they made no pretence OF hiding con-
victions as 70 where the blame lies.
Don't blame u.s. cried one Washington
Market dealer, I'VE haven't raised the
,ree Of meat any. Go 10 the wholesaler.
hsU tel, YOU why. Don't waste TOO much
time considering the excuse that the farm
,rs are too busy gathering crops 70 ship
sher cattle. because you are liable 10 hear
right after IL that the dry weather has
! ruined the crops The position of the re-
' tsiler to-day Is very much like the posi-
non Of a kernel Of corn between two mill
Frcnes II this thing keeps up much
longer some Of US fellows will have 70 be
hkine for the farm 70 get q living.
"You see. II is bad enough when we have
10 follow the prices they quote Us. but when
the hacking houses which buy our trim
rnings and by-products deliberately cut
down the price On them IL is the limit. It's
worse than the price Of pork"
{. A Koelsch OF Koelsch Brothers. who
Is president OF the washington Market Re-
tau Meat Dealers Association, criticised
the Beef Trust methods TO a reporter for
The Tribune.
For the last FIVE or six weeks he said,
'the wholesalers have been advancing the
price in carcass, but II was not until two
weeks ago that -he retailers have gone up
or their prices. We are paying three cents
q pound more for good beef to-day than
Ne were paving six weeks ago. Incidentally
the price which We are paid for suet and
shop fat has been reduced. year ago
We were getting seven and half cents for
slet Now We get four and half. The
/ concern which buys these products is In
the combination