Show SIXTEEN DOLLARS FOR JUST ONE COW HIDE I Price I Paid By Myton l Bayer Buyer Is Is it any Wonder onder Shoes Havo Have Increased Two Dollars Dollars Dollars Dol Dol- lars Pair Myton lyton people are more and more I i feeling the sting of or the European war war Food stuff sturt wear wearing ng apparel and other necessities are soaring in price A pair pall of shoes which before Christmas Christmas cost 5 now costs 7 A box 1 ox of matches which for tor years cars has been been heen selling at five cents wll will soon be ue be ten To mention all the things that have gone up would take man many Ico columns in this paper and in addition addition ad- ad t to that it would give the consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer the blues so we desist It might be he added though that the price of shoes will go still higher before be be- fore stopping It Is nothing strange these days to see a cow hide sell forten for tor forten torten ten or twelve dollars The highest price yet heard of was when a My Myton ton buyer paid 16 for one The Tire following following following fol fol- lowing dispatch will give some idea las as to why leather leathers prices are soarIng soaring soaring soar soar- ing Shoes will advance more than I 75 per cent during the coming six months If It the tine hide ride and leather leath- leath er companies of the United States fulfill the contracts which 1 I have been een tendered them by byJ bythe J the warring nations In Europe j i E. E Kahn Kah ot of Pioche Nev Nov Is at atthe the Hotel Utah buying shoes for tor fora tora a chain of or stores in southern Nevada Ne Ne- vada He said the wholesale price of ot shoes has advanced so i sharply In six months that In In many instances the dealers are losing money and that manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- had reported to him that Germany has contracted for worth of ot hides I in iii this tills country for delivery within the next three years and that the tho entente allies have contracted contracted contracted con con- tra for tor or hides wl which ich arc are still on the tine cattle and In many Instances instances instances In in- stances for Cor hides on cattle which are as yet unborn He was borne bone out In this statement b by Robert OConnell O'Connell representative of one of t the e largest largest larg larg- est shoe sho factories in the country country coun- coun coun coun- try tn who said that the demand for hides is such that the tine domestic domestic do do- factories are looking to South America to fill the orders |