Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-06-18 | Page 1 | Money Panic and Tariff

MONEY PANIC I AND TARIFF New York Retailers Wholesalers and an Packers Give Reasons for High Price of Beef Deef New York June 17 Tracing the pres present present ent high price of beef beet directly to the money panic of ot last October and K the operations of the tariff laws retail butchers wholesale dealers and pack packers ers yesterday declared that they could see nothing on which to base prediction pre prediction lc tion of ot lower prices for or the best grades of meat Dressed carcasses brought from Irom half halt a cent to 1 cent a pound more yesterday In New York than they did on Monday reflecting an increase since last week of 1 cents in the Chicago price of live steers bringing the cost of ot beef on the hoof higher than It has been In years