Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-04 | Page 5 | People Cannot Afford to Die

PEOPLE CANNOT 7 AFFORD TO OlE DIE k i of Gf f Has Advanced L 25 Per Cent Centi i ALL DUE TO THE TRUSTS t i tn Aa D up P TO o 78 PER i I Death Beath is becoming becIa more and ani more morea a luxury as u a of ot the rapidly in Iu increasing creasing ce d f catam coa and poor peo people people pie ate are re beginning to feel that they can en hardly afford to die dt There has been beena a marked advance in ita the price prk of lum hun lumber hunSe ber Se hat that enters eaten into the t e manufacture of ot Thu lumber hun her has baa just juat been l In a price from 16 i to tl t D tt per perI I thousand making the present price m per pet thousand The particular lumber affected Is 1 composed of ot pine boards r sixteen Inches wide boards beards that are areu usually u used u ty ip the manufacture of coffins coffina caskets ket and coffin boxes This lumber lamber comes almost wholly from the northwest and because beca of the tte tt heavy keavy drifts d fuI being made on the forests the supply is becoming exhausted The local undertakers and lumber deler have felt the fUR full force of the advance In lumber there has been an advance adva e of from 25 5 to 35 per cent com cou compared pared with two years nars ago and the Ute sanc sanle is i true tre e as a to coffins and the other ot cr supplies used by the undertakers of Ute the city S B Evan Evau the undertaker said sid Yes Yee the prices of all undertaking goods have zone gone up lP in common with Ue tie prices tit X C aH aJI a other othe commodities There his has h UI been bee no nn radical radl tat advance re recently recently but th Ut advance for the past put year Y l laM has bees Bee fully hilly 25 per pet Lest cent The casket that would hav have cost coat SIM two twe yrs years ap ago go costs ets not DOt less Jess than r now The advance ha hair not been confined to tn t amber ambe that goes ger go Into the con cea construction tOj of t f the casket there has been the same advance i In all kinds of o metal and cloth trimmings and in fact all articles used in the undertaking un bust bustness L ness flees p No one consulted on this subject teemed to see any improvement in Ja the Ute future People lake no secret of at attl atti tl ti the heavy advances to the toe theS S jumber and id the coffin eem trusts and hold that the extra profits go KO not to the dealer but to the stockholders in the great gleat rh that t control the thel comm l