Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07

tage of their opportunities to secure
large returns from small tracts, but the
opening of the market has stimulated
them to plan for the future along this
line. In time 1T will also draw in the
with their produce for many
miles around. as it is already beginning
to do, i'm these two ways greatly in
creaslng the number OF people who
come to the city to do their buying
as We'll as their selling.
The public market should. therefore,
IN the long run prove a benefit to the
merchants as We'll as To the public at
large. Cheap produce on the market
leaves the purchaser With more money
TO spend for the staple articles of food
and clothing to be had only at the
stores.
Business Readiustments.
There viii of necessity be some read
Justments of business. A leading gro
Ger reports an astonishing reduction in
the number of his sales, but he is AL
ready planning II new store adjoining
the market to sell staple groceries in
DUN packages at greatly reduced
prices. He will greatly reduce rents and
clerk hire. cut out delivery expenses
and sell for cash.
Others will be compelled to introduce
new economies into their business and
still Others will be compelled to go into
other lines of business. But the total
tNAtNi NiItII ItSlNJuSl-
ments promise to be cheaper prices and
therefore more of the n~ecessaries OF
ME for the people, and at the sam
time at least Il moderate increase In
the aggregate business of our mer-
chants.
There are two distinct phases to the
successful city market, both provisions
being absolutely necessary to the com-
pletc success of the undertaking.
Market House Proposed.
In Des Moines we have only the curb
market at present, the farmers back
ing up to the curb and disposing of their
foodstuffs. Early next spring we pur-
pose building Il large. we'll lighted and
Well ventilated market house, includ-
ing booths for the sale of fish, oysters.
meats, milk, butter, fruits. etc.
Every p~recaution must be taken to
keep The market for the producer and
h consumer. Natural interests hos
tile to the market will lmaxe every en-
deavor to undermine it, but our ordi-
nance takes every possible precaution
to forestall such an outcome.
Old market cities. which have AL
lowed the commission men or combines
to gain control of the markets., are
sending representatives to Des Moines
to learn how we are able to preserve
competition.
Lower Prices Prevail.
Reductions of from 20 to so per cent
IN prices have been recorded since the
opening OF the market in Des Moines.
The grocers We're forced to lower their
prices in order to be able to COM
pete at all. New potatoes sold in the
stores at go and 65 cents a peck the
day before the market opened, but the
price promptly dropped to 40 and SO
cents on the opening day.
There We're large quantities of cook
ing apples to be had at from Is to 25
cents for II half busllel. while the stores
had been receiving for the same kind
of apples from 40 to SO cents. An in
stance was cited where IL farmer sold
40 bushels of apples on the market for
double what he would have gotten at
the store, and yet for half what the
consumer would have paid at the
store.
The price of cabbage in the stores
had been three pounds for % cents.
but the market quickly reduced this
to 3 cents for heads weighing more
than a pound. When the grocers quoted
new onions at three punches for 10
cents large quantities We're to be found
on the market at from two to fonr
punches for 5 cents
Strictly fresh eggs We're offered at
the market for Is cents a dozen. At
the stores 20 cents a dozen was asked
Tor eggs which We're not guaranteed
to be fresh. Prices on cucumbers. to-
matoes, carrots, sweet corn, melons.
blackberiics and other articles offered
on the market showed the same
marked difference.