Show 1 t t 1 IT TRANSPIRES that the extraordinary extraor-dinary prices which the people in j the east are paying for meats are I not due to the failure in the supply I i from the west but were caused by a j deal There was an organized movement for checking shipments I I t in the interests of speculators It is w said there has been actual suffering for meat in the families of the poor 1 while in the middle classes the j butchers bills made economy in other household expenses absolutely necessary Now however the market has been broken by the incoming 1 coming of grassfed beef from the i plains But the speculative combinations combina-tions in Chicago New York I Philadelphia and other eastern markets do not explain away i the war prices asked for fresh meats in Salt Lake There seems be an actual scarcity of I beef cattle for the butchers themselves k them-selves are as anxious to buy at almost I q t most any price as the people are to obtain meat It looks as if the t 1 r farmers were neglecting a grand i opportunity in not turning more attention to the raising of beef cattle cat-tle and sheep A few head of fat i 1 cattle at this time would be a little t 1 fortune to threefourths of the Utah i i agriculturists There certainly can foe no more profitable branch of I i m agriculture than the raising of cattle 4 cat-tle and sheep at the prices now I cheerfully paid by butchers |