Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-09-27
How Prices Fly.

During the last decade prices of potatoe.
changed most and sugar the least. Thei
advances were 1l.9 and 8.5 per cent, re
spectively. During the last year bacon
which decreased just one-tenth of De-
cent, was the only one of the fifteen prin
cipal articles of food that showed a decline
in price, while nine of the fifteen advanced
more than 10 per cent, varying from "a
per cent. for milk to 1875 for round steak.
OF the fifteen only eggs, butter, milk and
sugar were lower, but the price of three OF
these four is normally lower during sum-
mers than during winters. Specimens Of
the statements of merchants in various
cities published in the report of Federal
Bureau of Labor follow
New York-Meats in general are so high
that if prices continue much longer will be
Obliged to close up business Have already
lost about 5000 since advance in prices
Chicaeo-Jobbing price on -four had ad-
vanced 80 cents per barrel, and unless
there is decline in the near future retail
prices will advance.
Baltimore-lf the present high prices
prevail much LONGER in the wholesale
market, do not know what will become
of the retail dealers.
Boston-Cheap sirloins are so high and
poor that ! am not cutting any at present.
Both grades of cattle have gone up, and
the above prices just about let me out
without profit.
A Second-Beef, especially on cheaper
cuts, 10 to 20 per cent. higher.
A Third-The high price of meats is
causing us to close our place of business
on or about July 4.
New MISUNDERSTANDING this week will
advance cents a pound on all meats, as
we are paying the highest price for beef
and lambs in my time. cannot say the
reasons; the jobber blames the farmers
the farmer blames the high price Of corn.
Philadelphia-No money in meats at
the above prices.
A Second-We paid, June II, is 1-2
cents pound for Pumps and rounds and
II l-2 cents pound for chucks of beef. the
highest price in the history of our business.
Salt Lake City-Everything seems to be
at the top. but nothing shows any decline.
Remarks of merchants accompanying the
the price reports for May told the same
story. This is the showing made for the
food prices in the last year. according to
the report on the foods investigated:
Decrease in price: Smoked bacon. per
cent
Increase in price Fresh milk, "a per
cent smoked ham, 2.7 hens. 3.8; granu-
lated sugar, 6 Irish potatoes, TO; wheat
flour, 1917; pork chops, 1l.2; pure lard,
11.3; butter. 1873; sirloin steak, III; rib
roast, IT'S round steak, 1875.
The advance during the decade, COM
pairing the price June IS last with the
average for the 10 years. was as follows
Graduated sugar. 8.5 per cent strictly
fresh eggs, 26.1; fresh milk, 80: creamery
butter, 1873; wheat -four. 1913; pure lard,
55.3; hens. 58l; srloin steak. SOS
smoked hams, 61.3; corn meal. 63.7; rib
roast. 638; round steak. "a; pork chops,
So; smoked bacon. 96.7; Irish potatoes,
1l.9.
In the North Atlantic States Pennsylva-
mia white ash coal, stove size. was H. 3 per
cent. higher on April Is. 1912, than a year
before Pennsylvania anthracite white ash,
chestnut size. 1l.8 higher. and bituminous,
II per cent. higher.
These were the largest increases, while
in the Western States the prices were un.
changed or there were no data for anthra-
cite, and bituminous coal was IL per cent
less than April IS. 1911.
The net prices of gas for household use
on April Is, compared with the previous
year, showed that reductions ranged from
to IS cents for manufactured gas among
54 companies in SO cities. and PRACTICAL,
unchanged among the natural gas plants
State Will Sell Road Franchises.