Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-31
PRICES TAKE TUMBLE.
Cost Of Living is Now Beginning to
Fall.

Fall.
The unwelcome phrase ''The High
Cost Of Living" is apparently about to
Of Living" is apparently about to
crumble into oblivion which such
causes and effects as autocracy and
other monopolistic institutions With
in the last ten days a survey Of the
countrys food stocks on hand has dis
closed tremendous quantities Of beef
pork, matton, lamb and poultry, said
story Saturday in the New York
Herald. Butter and eggs are in great
abundance, as shown by rapidly de-
clining wholesale prices.
Shipments Of beef are gluttins the
wholesale markets, with cattle selling
At from 1S to twenty-five cents pound
compared with twenty eight to thirty
two cents a pound ten days ago. Other
commodities are on tho downward
trend, and the indications are that the
consumer should feel the decline at
once in lower prices.
$50 far the retail prices on food
commodities have shown little or no
disposition to go downward, and it is
the evident purpose Of the retailers,
according to wholesalers, to squeeze
from the public all the traffic will
bear says The New York Herald.
The housewife is advised, therefore, to
bring the fact Of the lower wholesale
prices to the attention Of her dealer
and to insist that the retail figures
show a corresponding decrease"
Lower Prices in Market.
"At the Washington market yester-
day lower prices prevailed for shops
in other parts of the city. Porter
house steaks were quoted at forty-two
to forty-flve cents. Pork Ions and
pork chops went at thirty-five cents
and shoulder Of veal at twenty-five
cents. Mutton chops sold for thirty
four cents pound. The better grades
of roasting chickens sold at forty cents
and geese at thirty-seven cents.
within the last ten days pork has
shown a decline Of forty per cent, and
despite this substantial decrease the
majority of retailers are still selling
it on the same war time schedule. Coun-
try pigs are wholesaling at sixteen to
eighteen cents or approximately seven
cents q pound lower than a week ago
Lamb has gone down from five to six
cents a pound, and the best legs OF
mutton are quoted at thirty to forty
cents a pound and the cheaper cuts at
twenty-five to twenty-six cents. Ex-
cellent sirloin steak is selling at thirty
eight to forty-cents with good profit
and rib roast at about the same fig
ures,
Veal Drops Ten Cents.
Veal has gone downward ten cents
pound, and the wholesale market is
overcrowded with choice stock selling
at eighteen to twenty cents, as against
thirty to thirty-three cents q week ago
Butter that week ago was whole
sailing at sixty-eigh cents Is now
quoted ut fifty-fve to fifty-six cents
and wholesalers declare the public
should not pay more than sixty-f1ve
cents q pound for the best table butter.
Good butter can be sold profitably at
sixty cents.
Eggs have fallen in with lower
prices and fresh western, which are
known as firsts, are selling wholesale
at fifty eight and fifty-nine cents
A big break occurred in the corn
market Saturday. prices experiencing
the greatest loss for any day in the
present downward readjustmcnt OF
values. The January position in chi
cago broke more than IA bushcl.