Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-09
PRICES FOR SALE OF WAR STORES TO PUBLIC LOW War Department Announces List of Food Supplies to Be
 Sold. COSTS DISREGARDED
 IN FIXING FIGURES Goods Can Be Bought Through Par cels Post or by Means of
 the Municipal
 Agencies.

i Washington, Aug 8.--The war department made public today a complete price list on all subsistence stores available for sale to the pub lie through the parcels post or thru municipal selling agencies. Costs of the commodities to the government, the department said, had been dis regarded entirely in fixing the prices of sale which are materially lower than prevailing market rates. ] The prices quoted are f. 0. b. and iron forage points in each on the 13 e19yricts into which the country is divided for war department sub sistence purposes. The department now is re-distributing the food sup plies in the 13 areas, in order that each may have it's proportion per population of the 72 articles offered for public sale.
 The price tables include the price l per can or individual units in each case, and also the price per case or larger container. It also shows the gross weight per can and per case in order that the public may arrive at the price they will have to pay by adding parcel post rates from the nearest distributing point to the home of the consumer to the f. o. b. prices quoted.
 Cities to Ship.
 Municipal selling agencies will compute freight charges on these Fshi; E a&seats ,to. be addei.S tos the Dsice quoted by the war, department. On the parcels post distribution, no ord CTS will be received direct by the war department, but only through ] the postoffice department which will acquisition the supplies by case or larger package, the postmasters in turn breaking these shipments up into unit packages of single can or several cans.
 Sales to municipalities at the new prices will begin as soon as the sur plus property officers at the various zone supply offices and depots have received the quotations made public today. Sales to individuals through the parcels post will be inaugurated August IS, and before that time, all postmasters will have price quota tion list from which the consumer may order.
 The department emphasized that no change in the policy of sales to municipalities had been made, the only alteration being in prices. If a municipality is unable to buy or sell foodstuffs owing to- it's charter or local laws, the department will ship to it upon consignment subsistence stores in mot less than case or car ton lots, the goods to be paid for or returned within 30 days from date of receipts. Shipments of this charac- ter however, will be made only when the mayor of head of the local gov ernment either acts as the federal governments agent and supervises the distribution of the food, or ap- points some one to so act.
 Although only 72 food staples are enumerated in the price list, the item ized quotations owing to the var iety of packing are quite lengthy. I Quotations on some of the leading commodities are:
 Bacon $4.15 per can of 17 pounds; corned beel 55c per can of 1.3e pounds; baked beans five cents fol can of IA pounds; sweet corn 1Oe per IA pound can; dry beans $6.4e per 100 pounds; crackers five and si, cents a pound; army flour $6 pel 100 pounds; macaroni 7c per 1-s pounds: rolled oats 12c per two pounds; seeded raisins 1Oc per pound rice $6.74 per hundred pounds: to. matoes 9c per two pound can, anc white corn meal $3.50 per hundred ! pounds.