Show THE OF BREAD breadstuffs STUFFS f THREE months ago wheat was beati belos gl bought in this city by millers for from I 1 to 70 cents centa per bushel bakers baker no 1 flur flaur was then selling at 2 50 since the first of september there has been a steady and rapid advance in wheat necessitating ah increase in the price ol of fio flor hence on or about oct 15 flour advanced 25 per cwt cat and on nov 6 5 a second like advance was made today dealers state that wheat can be purchased in small lots at from 05 95 cents to tol 1 per bushel but that large lots cannot he be bought for less than 1 to I 1 08 5 yesterday the bolder of a large lot offered it to a miller at and ad positively refused to take less expressing eve confidence that he be would not doi have to wait long to get his price the millers cannot of course be held responsible for an advance in flour there is no do gambling in bread stuffs studs in utah and the he manufacture of flour in this territory is conducted upon business principles and margins 01 of profit SO ao well defined and legitimate that they may be said to be fixed at one time this fall some of the mil lers in this city were making flour at a great was the advance in wheat when flour badnow advanced proportionately tiona tely A rise in the price of flour is apt to occasion criticism and objection more or less among that portion of the community not directly direct directly Ty lenga engaged gred in agriculture but high frices of wheat and flour in utah are arc to be balled in hi some quarters at least with satisfaction rattier rather than objection while they may result in hardship ii in individual cases they mean the greatest good to the greatest number utah produces more wheat than it consumes hence a high higa price of that product means prosperity to the farmer when the latter is id prosperous there ought to be more employment for the mechanic and artisan and mercantile cantile circles are also benefited w thus an increase in the price of flour la in utah means the reverse of on an increase in the ibe price of such a commodity as coal in the former case the majority of the community are bene fitted in the latter a few individuals or corporations get the benefit of the additional tax on the consumer |