The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-23
SOME ARTICLES ARE
so PER CENT HIGHER
Salt Lake Merchant Says "Ev-
erything Seems to Be at the
Top, but Nothing Shows
Any Decline
vAY ASHINGTON, Sept. 22--Thc
&H$ most marked upward trend Of


WV the cost Of living is disclosed
in the federal bureau of Ia
Dor S report of an investigation of
prices for the last ten years conducted
in the important industrial centers of
thirtytwo states.
Fifteen important articles of goods,
as we'll as coal, comprising two-thirds
of workingmsp 8 needs, were investi-
gated In many cities the investi-
gators gathered statements of mer
chants on the cost of living and speci-
mems of these are published in the re-
port,
On Juno -, 1912, the report shows
nine of the fifteen articles Of food
were higher than year before, and
ten had advanced in the last ten years
more than 80 per cent over the aver
ago price for the preceding ten years.
Sugar Changed Least.
During the last decade prices Of po-
tatoes changed most and sugar the
least. Their advances were 1ll.9 and
s.5 per cent, respectively During the
last year, bacon, which decreased just
one-tenth Of ono per cent, was the only
one of the fifteen articles of food
that showed decline, while nine of
the fifteen advanced more than 10 per
cent. varying from "a per cent for
milk, TO 1876 for round steak.
OF the fifteen, only eggs, butter,
1 M nH I,,y
price of three of these four is nor
mally lower in summer than in winter.
Merchants Statements.
| Specimens Of the statements OF Nor
chants in various cities, published in
their report, follow:
New York-'Meats In general ara so
high that il prices continue TO advance
much longer will be obliged to close up
business. Have already lost 5000 since
advance in prices"
Chcago-"Jobbing price on flour has
advanced so cents on barrel and unless
there IS decline soon retail prices will
advance"
Salt Lake City-"Everything seems 10
be al the top. but nothing shows any de-
cline
Remarks OF merchants accompanying
the price reports for May Is told the same
story. These are examples.
One Bright Spot.
Los Angeles-''rhe decline or price or
potatoes is due TO spectators losing
their grip on the market. Shipments have
arrived from other states and as new
| tpI IL, in ol,s
they had to let GO
Portland, Or.-'Raise of prices for bee
and pork is due to shortage of stock"
This was the showing made for the
food prices in the last year according
TO the report on the foods investigated:
Decrease in price Smoked basons =
per cent
/ Increase In price: Fresh milk, "a pei
cent: smoked ham. 81: hens. 3.s; granu.
lated sugar, g; Irish potatoes. 7.6; whea
flour, 1o.7: pork chops, ll-2: pure lard
lI.3: strictly fresh eggs, lis; corn meal
1o.7; creamery butter, 15.s: sirloin steak
' III; rib roast, l7.5: round steak, 1876.
, Advance During Decade.
The advance during the decade, com
, pairing the price June l5 last with tn
/ average for the ten years. follows;
t C;ranulated sugar. SIS per cent; fresl
: eggs. 261; fresh milk, 32,e: creamer.
butter, aSS; wheat flour. as.s, pure lard
55.3; hens, 5s.1: sirloln steak, $50
smoked hams, s1.s: com meal. sat-: ri!
: roast 6ss: round steak, 81. porK chops
Sc; smoked bacon, as.7; Irish potatoes
l11.2
Bitumnous coal advanced In seventies
O out of thirty-two cities, the prices re
q malncd In twelve cities and declined Ii
Il three cities,
Is FINITE IN CAMPAIGN