Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-25 | Page 2 | Proving Increase in Cost of Foodstuffs

PROVING INCREASE IN COST OF FOODSTUFFS DENVER, Jan. 24. Figures compiled by officers of the Colorado Stato Federation of Labor show that tho price of foodstuffs food-stuffs has Incroased from 100 to 150 per cent during the last few years. Denver, El Paso. Pubelo and Montroso counties wero picked for the most elaborate elab-orate compilations, and out of 53 artlclos on which ilgures wero obtained, only sov-en sov-en showed a decrcaso ln price. These were flour, molasses, potatoes, mackerel, oatmeal, prunes and nut coal. Even these articles do not show a decrease de-crease In all of the counties. In Denver county, for instance, syrup shows an increase in-crease of 92 per cent; smoked beof. '66 per cent; breast of mutton. 100 per cent, salt pork, S3 per cent; butter. 100 per cent; lard. 11S per cent; eggs, 92 per cent: oatmeal. 150 per cent, and prunes, 60 per cent.