The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1920-01-30
THE PRICE OF CLOTHES
S. H, Wallis, The Local Tailor, Gives
Out Interview Making An Interest
ing Comparison of Prices.

ing Comparison of Prices.
The following very interesting facts
On the clothing situation are set forth
in an interview with S. H Wallis,
the Chase Creek Tailor:
Most people seem to think that
clothes prices are high. Measured
in the number of dollars it takes to
purchase a suit they ar. But meas
ured in the price of things which the
producer has to sell, or in the wages
paid for service performed they are
no higher than they were before the
war. In many instances, as a matter
of fact, they are not so high
Compare clothes prices, for in
stance, with that of corn, the great
American money crop. In 1914 the
Iowa farmer had to haul fifty bushels
of corn to market in order to get the
money to pay for a $25 suit of
clothes. Now he can get a $50 suit
and a $40 pair of shoes for his fifty
bushels OF corn.
TT may be that he doesn't haul
corn to market but feeds it to his
hogs. On December Both 1914, he
had to sell four hundred pounds of
hogs at the top price of the Chicago
market to get the money to pay for
aS35 suit and SO hat. On Deem
Der Both, 1919, if he sold four hundred
pounds of hogs at the top price of the
Chicago market he came within SO
of receiving the money to buy $50
suit and there have been long periods
| in the last two years when he would
have got from $50 to 1872 for his four
hundred pounds of hogs.
'1f, on December 30th, 1914, he mark
eted thousand pound corn-fed steer
at the top of the Chicago market he
got $3.50 for it. If he marketed i:
on December 30th, 1919, for the top
/ price, he got s195 for it-money en-
ough to buy pretty nice outfit of
clothes even at present prices.
wheat is raised in a every wide sec.
tions of the country. Official govern
ment reports tells us that the average
farm value of wheat on November 1st
1914 was TIC bushel. The farmer
who sold fifty bushels of it got $3S. so
cor just about enought- to buy SEE
suit and ass pair of shoes, a SO hat
two or three good shirts and theI
some handkerchiefs. The farm val
y ne of wheat November LIST, 1919 wal
s2.13 a bushel and the farmer wh'
sold fifty bushels at his home station
received $1O6 SO, or enough to bu,
1 him fine. $50 suit and big thicl
: overcoat If a farmer happens t
S live in the Northwest and to have he'll
/ his wheat until now he can get some
: where near So a bushel for grain c
/ good quality.
while we are talking about tn
L Northwest, it may be well to mentio
t the farmer who raises fiaxseed. Tn
l. government tells us that on the fir:
of November, 1914, he received a
average I'll pI.lct pei ooohOA ehe I'll
II farm stations for his seed. For
j. bushels he got just enough none
for his $25 suit and hat. If b
marketed his flaxseed on Novembe
list, 1919, he got on an average {
1882 a bushel at the home station
For twenty-five bushels he got $685.
Is enough to pay for his $50 suit an
N leave $3.50 for hat, shoes and fu
20 nishings for the winter.
is you may think the Northwest
t. particularly favored territory but let
~ look at the South where thty rails
Of cotton. We all remember how in tt
10 fall of 1914 the BUY bale of cottoI
n campaign was on to save the produce
i'd from ruin.
lie The price of cotton in the fall
1914 was down to cents pound fl