The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-10

Dried onions cost cents in Min
neapolis and S " cents pound in
duluth, which means that Duluth
ians paid per cent more than Min
neapolitans.
Strange to- say, potato prices were
Identical in the two cities.
Getting back to forage for milch
animals again, it is fact that rye
straw cost SO to $40 in Duluth and
$40 to $11 in Minneapolis, a differ
ence of 10 per cent against Mime
apolis and in favor of Duluth.
Quotations on bran were not
given but oat straw cost 50 to $40
in Duluth and wheat straw SO to
$11 in Minneapolis. Anyone knows
that oat straw is more valuable than
wheat straw, therefore the price was
sharply against Minneapolis and in.
favor of Duluth.
Despite that, as in the case of hay,
milk costs 37h per cent more in
Duluth than in Minneapolis. There
must be more competition down there
and less monopoly. Perhaps, too,
there is more conscience on the part
of the dealers.
A Duluthian who once lived in the
wide and open country and not al
ways was a victim to- the Wiles and
jungles Of city life, had eggs shipped
to him all winter. When the price
was rs cents a dozen in Duluth for
fresh hen fruit, he never paid more
than 43 cents in the country market.
That was some difference, fellow cit
izens, and it proves that elimination
of the middleman reduces the H. c.
L. in this neck O. the woods.
A Duluthian was in Cloquet few
days ago. Up there, eggs were SELL
ing at 40 cents dozen while Du-
luthians were paying 4S to 54 cents
in their dear old city.
Butter was quoted at &c cents 8
pound in Cloquet when it was selling
at 70 cents in Duluth.
Milk sells for less money in Clo-
quet, despite the drying up of the
milch COWS in the forest fires last
October. When milk costs from Is
to IS cents in Duluth and IL cents
in Minneapolis, it can be had at Clo-
quet for 10 cents quart.
Even the canned stuff is cheaper
in dismantled Cloquet than in Du-
luth. 1t sold for 16 cents a can
there when it cost 1S cents a can in
Duluth.
Omar coffee, for example, costs 40
cents in Cloquet and As cents in
Duluth, or it did 10 days ago when
Duluthian was up there and made
comparisons.
When Nathaniel J. Upham gets
everyone properly and cheaply
housed in this funny old city, it is
proposed that he extend his famous
philanthropy to the task of bringing
down the cost of things that working
people eat.
The benevolent old packing COM
panies have practice of fixing their
prices according to local conditions.
In Duluth, where there i3 little or no
| meat coming in from the farmers,
they charge the very :op prices. As
you get away from Duluth and there
is competition from local meat pro-
! duction and even in railroad lates,
prices come down, just like Davy
Crockett's coon. You do not even
have to threaten to shoot.
One Duluthian who does not spend
all his time in one place states that
| he has some remarkable differences
| in meat prices. He has been in
small, unimportant farming towns,
! where bacon, for example, of .cstab-
lished brand, could be bought for 10
to Is per cent less than in Duluth,
! although delivery facilities and
freight rates really were in favor of
Duluth. ..-..
Jobbing houses of various kinds
also soak it to Duluthians and then.
favor some water-tank place that is
fortunate enough to have advantage
OF Twin City connections and prices.
All that is story in itself.