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Show COST OF LIVING IS WORKING BOTH WAS Duchesne County Commissioner Throws Brilliant Light on the Situation in His Locality. 'jw The high -cost of living is -working both ways in Duchesne county, accord- -ing to one of the commissioners from ' that district in attendance at the good roads and tax meetings at . the capital this week. ''Shoes come high,M said this resident of the Uintah basin, "but hides sell high, too. "A pair of shoes which cost $5 before Christmas now cost $7. "A box of matches used to be thrown in at any grocery or drug store. They then cost five cents, but will soon be ten cents, and we will be lighting our own fires like the Indians with sticks soon if they keep climbing. "But it is nothing strange to see a cowhide sell for $10 to $12. Just the other day a Myton buyer paid $16 for a hide. "Of course the war had a lot to do with this, and the trouble between the United States and Germany may or may not cause hide prices to take a tumble, for there were said to be contracts for $100,000,000 worth of hides in this country for German delivery within three years before Germany got 'sassy.' "Well, probably Uncle Sam will gladly glad-ly use the same amount for his own boys, so why worry?" |