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Show li! 11 GRAIN FIRM DESPITE WORLD WAR Oats, Wheat and Corn Take Slight Drop; Foodstuffs Food-stuffs Soar. According to the local quotations on hav ami jrrain yesterday the European war has had no greut effect on those commodities so far as the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain counrrv is concerned. A comparison compari-son of yesterday's quotations with those of a year ajjo shows that lucerne, timothy and barley are lower than a year a-o, while oats, wheat and corn are a little higher. Yesterday's quotations were: Lucerne. Lu-cerne. $13 a ton, aniin?t $14 last year; timothv. $15,011, against $l(i.50 lost year: "barlev. 1.2.") a hundredweight, acainst $1.43 iat year; oats, $1.00, against 1..1'l last year; wheat, $1.7J, against last year; corn, $2.30, against $1.9i'i last year. The decrease in lucerne, timothy and barlev is credited to the heavy crops and the fact, that the intcrinountain country is too far inland to be a competitor com-petitor in foreign trallic, while tho increase in-crease in the price of the other articles ar-ticles is asiened to the war. Tho only effect of the war on crain has been due to tho farmers holding their crop off the market in anticipation of a heavy demand as soon as hippinL' facilities are provided. This act'nn has made a slight shortage on certain American markets and has caused the buyors to raise the price a little to till their own orders. fanned salmon is the latest addition to the lit of foodstuffs that have u,-vaneed u,-vaneed in price. Wholesale dealers report an advance o: $1 a cave on salmon within a week, and nlo report re-port gradual a.lvaiv es in ether articles, such as salt inears and lard. Oe.iler exprv-s the opinion That foodstuffs will il'!!U!,:i" l.i .i,ivaiii- :uriij lui- . liter li-ter and that the highest prices known in the wct for several yrnrs will be reached. |