Show 0 WHOLESALE PRICES 0 OF F commodities 1 A downward trend in wholesale prices of leading articles of factory consumption ant an t many of the staple articles of food in 1913 and 1914 down to the period of the european war and a rapid rise in prices of following that event are indicated by t a pamphlet just issued by the Depart department of commerce through the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce the booklet referred to is published under the title of wholesale prices of leading articles in united states markets miscellaneous series no 19 and may be obtained from the superintendent of documents government printing office washington D C for the nominal sum of five cents its practical val value lue is far beyond what might be inferred from its price for it contains a weekly record of the price fluctuations of the principal basic articles of industry such as iron and steel petroleum cotton wool and tin and of leading foodstuffs including wheat corn sugar coffe tea rice pork and beef cottonseed oil manila pig iron steel billets and blooms petroleum copper silk tin spelter and silver were in each case at a lower price level in the closing week of july last than in the corresponding period a year ago and this was also true of sugar coffee and rice wheat corn cattle cotton leather ather le and domestic wool ruled somewhat higher than in the preceding year australian wool showed a precipitate decline immediately following the date at which wool was transferred to the free list the average price dropping from 82 cents per pound on december 5 1913 to 61 cents cent on december 12 of that year the range of prices of these and numerous other articles by weeks from january 1 1913 to october cnober ct ober 31 1914 is shown in the pamphlet in question which may be obtained in the manner above stated |