The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-15
ALBUQUERQUE NOT
So BADLY FIXED
As TO PRICES
Sugar Flour and Coffee Up,
But no Change in Retail
Meat Prices and None Look.
CT For.

While there has been an advance
in the cost OF foodstuns and such alta.
pl"s as sugar n coffee have been
SHARPLY advRnced, Albuquerque
doesn't face a nightmare Of killing
prices II the reassuring words OF a
Dig meat dealer are borne out. Re
TAN meat prices here have been UNI
changed. he said this morning. and no
advance Is anticipated. Wholesale
prices here have actually gone a bit
lower. he said. and there isn't any
shortage OF supply In sight.
Albuquerque Is more fortunately
situated than most other cities Ia re-
Eard TO the meat business. Butchers
here rave local sources OF supply and
are not. dependent on receipts at dis
tant packing houses. Albuquerque
housewives get meal cheaper than
their sisters In every other city be-
tween Frisco and Chicago.
The only change In prices looked
for here at this time are such natural
fluctuations as govern the quotations
on chickens and other valuable meats.
Pork. for instance. is aubiecf TO al
most weekly change In price at all
times.
sugar has SCARED more than any
other staple. There was an addition
al rise yesterday in the wholesale
price, and sugar now sells for t3.3o
more a hundred pounds than /. did
before the European war began. The
advance In explained hy the fact that
about 90 per cent of our supply OF
beet sugar comes from Germany, and
n.Naa.aN. - - go -
this country due TO the tariff revis-
ION. the two things meaning a big
prospective shortage. Wilmot Booth.
manager of Gross Kelly and com
pany's bag wholesale house, in discus.
sing the sugar situation, said those
Interested should read an article In
the August "Pearson's'' Magaxine. foi
a very clear statement as TO the real
sugar market conditions.
Conee-all grades-has advance.
two cents a pound at Wholesale, and
hour has gone up So cents a hundred
pounds al wholesale.
Just al present whether the con
sumner pays more for such staples al
coffee. nour and sugar depends OF
the retailer. II the latter happens q
have a good-slzed stock Of such sta
pies on hand, and feels that Il -
good business measur TO sell at tn
old price until the stock II lowered
there will he no advance for his Gus
,omefa risht now; II he hasn't tn
stock or doesn't feel like holding 4
the old quotations. there will be Al
advance. In either case the retaile
will have TO come to the advanc
eventually. n the wholesale rates re
main up or keep climbing.
Domestic sardines have been ad
Vanred 80 cents a case, but Il W.
said by a dig Wholesaler today ina
no general advance In canned good
was anticipated at this time. Most {
thore goods are contracted for In IA
spring. should the hish price Z
sugar continue. canned fruits VIII va
doubtedly mount IN price when u
present pack ~ disposed Of sardins
soar, because the sources Of suppl
from foreign countries are shut on y
war, and a big shortage 10 In Hlehl
one OF the biggest bakers IN IN
city said today that while Hour HI
advanced, the breadmakern Of the ci
had net considered the question
reducing the size ~ the loav'
whether continued advance In q
price of sugar would AFFECT the pr
Of cakes and pies was q matter,
said, to be decided as cifcumplane