Show MILLS MAY CLOSE FOR LACK OF WHEAT AND POTATO FAMINE IS DECLARED TO BE IMMINENT Goin up The sound of the tte elevator boys bos voice is reproduced with startling Intensity by b that of the dealers in flour potatoes and aad eggs Presently there Is going to be the high highest highest est ast mark for potatoes and lour flour that ever er was known wn In this state indeed the price of wheat heat Is higher right now than It has ever eef been blen since the earliest of tile the early earl days There is no corner Orner In the corn com commodities modUles mentioned it is he Ie ie high highest est eeL e t authority There Juit Ji a cI supply to meet the demand The potato crop cropIs Is exhausted the wheat crop is Ia con eon consumed corned su ed and the egg is hard to get Eggs are cheap now no compared to what they were in the winter but the present ten tendency t tendency n dency is toward towan an increase In and about Salt Sait Lake the flouring flouting mills grind between and bushels of wheat every day The grain from ruin Utah and southern Idaho fields are used al almost almost almost most exclusively although time has bas been when hen wheat wh at was shipped In from other states The De situation as it stands at this time Is ia this The crop of or 1907 was as used up u conse conSt consequently there was no holdover from the preceding year The crop of 1808 1 Is nearly nearl exhausted A careful canvas of or the conditions condition In the farming towns show that there Is scarcely a kernel ef of wheat to be had tad One of the reasons for fer this to is that In many man cases allee the farmers hauled directly from the field the car and the product went wept eastward The Jobbing price of potatoes la Is SI S 3 a hundredweight and an the th retail price l la a bushel A bushel weighs sixty pounds thus it will be seen that the dealer makes only oldy 15 Ii 1 cents the bushel The Th price by bythe bythe bythe the peck is 3 Se Ii cents cents the bushel buhel was regarded as a good price not many weeks ago agoA agoA agoA A few months ago wheat was selling s lIIng at 90 cents ent and a below bel w Today IlY it i is h I I 1 and I jiw I Hennen K E Miner MIller or the inter Milling company sakS la yesterday that it Is quite probable that many if not all of the mills mi s hereabouts will nave have to cl close soon for tor lack of or grain 1 We have had men out said Mr Ir Mu ler trying t to size up the situation and andi i to buy bu wheat heat for us They report that there is 15 very little grain In iR the farming communities Nothing was carried over i from room the year ear before and last year ear we imported wheat from ether states Ore Oregon gon gee and keep keef us going This year there naturally will be tIP a good I demand for the new crop as there was I last aid even better but in the mean meantime I time It is my opinion that a good many man i of the mills will have hae to close down for a awhile awhile while until the harvest barvest YOI Ti I have hae be been n In the milling business in inthis inthis inthis this section for a great many years ears and andI I have never seen Slen the price of wheat so high That which is said of oe wheat is equally true ot of o potatoes perhaps more so The plain truth Is there are no potatoes to be had practically speaking There is no corner in potatoes either The supply has just been exhausted and that is all aU j I there is i about it IL Utah potatoes have hae been shipped out of oC the state by the car carload load to Texas and Oklahoma principally One dealer said yesterday that hIs Ills agent had succeeded in getting two cars carn at Mom Mor Morgan gan and white while lie IK was getting them there were six Ix Ix ether carloads on the tracks billed Wiled for or Texas The frank admission lon of or orthe the dealers is that there will trill be a potato famine and that they cant help it The commission men are are no less active I In the field with regard to gathering in inthe Inthe Inthe the few remaining potatoes than wheat dealers are in getting in the little grain I that is left One of oC th the reasons for the Ule scarcity sea t of I Ithe the potato po to supply at this time is Ie said to tobe tobe be the floods in California which washed away awa thousands s of acres of oC potatoes Utah relies in no small measure on Call Cali California fornia for fer Its potato supply consequently if Ie the potato crop in California falls ails the early shipments into Utah are bound to tobe tobE tobe be curtailed The only and earliest hope of relief I Ican Ican Ican can see said a prominent commission merchant yesterday is from Texas We Te ought to be getting Texas potatoes along about the first of May Ma California Call Cornia pota potatoes potatoes potatoes toes normally come in between the middle of or May and the first of June Utah po pa potatoes poI do not appear until July Jul and the I big crop does dees not mature ture until August AugustI The third chief article of food I tion that feels the effect err t of the tendency I of the times or presently will willIs Is the egg egg eggI The ruling price at t jobbing rates for tor eggs I is now SH a ease case The retail price Is 35 I II cents the dozen leaving a margin of I profit for the dealer of or for handling I thirty dozens of or eggs If It the price goes up another notch i said sahl a dealer yesterday It will mean W cent eggs and I would not bs hr b surprised to see Me that tooL We have hae been trying trIng to buy bu buya a carload of or eggs in the middle west cst but we lad find the supply very ery short Even Een back I there they the want ze a case caie for eggs and it costs costa easily X 3 cents to lay them in here i j We had luul a Ii man looking out let fer a lot lotof I of April eggs for us these are the best I I to buy bu by b fur but he reported to us the I conditions that I have told you j I I I About Utah Uta production n Why j I II production could not nil fin even een the local I market markeL i 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