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Show GRINDING THE MILLERS Utah Farmers and Outside Millers Squeezing Them. WHEAT SELLING AT 85 CENTS Higher Than nt Any Time Since the Lelter Corner and 14 Cents Hlghci Than in Chicago Wheat Plenty, but Formers Ate Holding Their Crops Millers Forced to Send Flour Up, Enabling Outside Millers to Undersell Them Ileal Estate Transfers, Building Permits, Etc. "- 4-4- 4- Week ending No l Nov S Dank clearings II. sn Wtii Realty transfers 87 M 119,517 f Jlulldlng permits UCflO 1S.175 t -- The Utah millers are being squeezed these days In a manner that Is not Pleasant Del ween, the high price of the Utah wheat and the low price of the flour that Is being shipped In from the outside, they are having n hard load to travel In a business way Whejt Is being sold In carload lots In the Salt Take market for 85 cents a bushel This Is the highest price reached for this crenl ln Ptah since Ihe Letter "corner" nt the opening of the Spanish-American wnr At that lime It reached Jl The present high price Is not due to a shortage of wheat In Utah There Is plenty on hand, but the farmers are not compelled to sell and seem Inclined to hold for n still higher figure One of the strangest features of tho situation Is that Ihe price In Salt Lake Is 14 cents higher than It Is In Chicago 'the price there yesterday being 71 rents This unusually high price for whe.it Is Riving the millers plenty of trouble, and they have been havlng-somc difficulty dif-ficulty In getting sufll. lent wheat even at the high prices prevailing Hut Ihls Is only n small part of their troubles They are now being attacked ln the rear ln order to make It profitable to buy wheat at the high prices asked, they have brem compelled to force up the price of flour, until It Is higher today to-day than It has been for years The present retail prices are J2 40 J 2 M and )2 60 for the three grades These prices make It possible for Eastern millers to ship In (lour from Missouri river points for sale ln the lorn! market ln this way the home millers are heln squeezed between the Ulnh farmers, with ihelr high prices for wheat, and the outside millers, with their low prices for Hour The outlook In the Stnte for fnll wheat Is not very promising A good acreage has been sown but the total lack ot rainfall up tn this time renders the outlook dubious The seed Is lying In the dry ground Just ns It was sown. A good rain within the next ten days would bring the crop out nil right, but the rain Is absolutely necessary. |