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Show Stores of Meats in Utah j Show V ast Increase Over Hoards Held During War ' i Investigation May Follow Startling: Reports in! Files of State Dairy and Food ' ; Commission. j i FREi-H n.ea: in eoid storage in Utah in .tune of this year was more than 3000 per cent more than it was in June, 1017. Salted meats in eold stora.e in Utah in June uf this year amounted to more than 7400 per cent more than in June, li'17. These jtanlinc figures are rvea'od in the monthly eoid storage reports whieh are filed in "the' ofi'i.-e of Waiter M. Boyden, state dairy and food commissioner. com-missioner. Investigation of the meat situation has caused Governor Bamberger r.ml other state oJtieiais to wonder whether Utah is guilty, along with the rest of the nation, in the matter ot hoarding food in eold storage. It is not unlikely that a n i nvoi igation mav be mur.e. Mr. Bovden said vertefda-v that he planned to send an inspector to the Utah cold storage plants th's month to check the figures which are submitted in certified statements each month to his department by the owners of the cold storage warehouses. The eold storage record of the state dairy and food office, compiled from figures submitted t.v the cold storage houses themselves, show that in June. !'17. when the United States had been at war less than three months, there were 21,i'"l pounds of fresh meat in storasre in eight plains that reported. In ten plans wni.h reported for June, 1010, there were tji'4.003 pounds of fresh J meat in storage, the report shows. j In June of two years ago. cold storage operators in Utah reported 10.25S pounds of salted meat in their plants, while for June of this year they reported i J.lTS.i'l pounds of salted meat. 'If there are people in Utah who are hoarding meat, as those figures would I seem to indicate, lhev should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.'" Gov- trnor Bamberger declared yesterday afternoon when he was shown the com- j parative figures. "Something must be done to stop hoarding, and unless there :s sufficient rea.-on for such an increase in this state, the people here who are guilty ought to be punished." i |