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Show UTAH TO SECURE SHARE OF WAR FOOD RESERVE STORED BY GOVERNMENT AT OMAHA Supplies to Be Shipped to Mayors of Cities of State and Individual Orders of Consumers Will Be Filled by Parcel Post. UNITED STATES SENATOR "WIL- 1 LIAM H. KING lias notified Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger that the present pres-ent plana of the war department call forthe distribution of Utah's share of the government supplies of foodstuff food-stuff from Omaha, where large quantities quan-tities are now stored. Present arrangements, arrange-ments, Senator King: saya, are to ship ttie supplies to the mayors of cities and to fill orders by parcel post. The plan does not now contemplate distribution by state officials, but rather by municipalities municipali-ties and by parcel post direct. Senator King- promised to keep Utah advised on the progress, made toward distributing the government's enormous war food reserves re-serves as a part of the gigantic drive to reduce the cost of living and end profiteering. profi-teering. Information from tho zone surplus property officer at Omaha indicates that tremendous quantities of commodities, the retail prices of which have been soaring like De Haviland Fours recently, are in warehouses in the Omaha district. Food Is Listed- v They include the following- items: Bacon, 311,992 pounds; evaporated apples, ap-ples, 78,000 pounds; baked beans, 51,328 cans; corned beef, 30.000 6 -pound cans; I pink beans, 150.000 pounds; cotton blankets, blan-kets, 3547; woolen blankets. 52,187; white corunieal, 16,000 pounds; yellow cornmeal, 5o00 pounds; blue denim. 189,614 yards; brown denim, 104.281 yards; fleece-lined cotton drawers, J 1 ,190 ; khaki duck. 79,-735 79,-735 yards; barley flour, 7-160 pounds; bran, 9G0 pounds: buckwheat flour, 1500 pounds; rye flour, 8500 pounds; hard bread, 11,000 pounds ; fine hominy, 9,000 pounds; lye hominy, 5000 cans; canvas leggings. 4777 pairs; oatmeal, 2300 pounds ; evaporated peaches. 35,000 pounds; green peas, 74,300 cans; black pepper, 28,000 cans; prunes, j 68,000 pounds; raisins. 76,000 pounds; rice, 282,000 pounds; maniia rope. H and 3 -I inch, 9000 pounds; flannel shirting:, 154.265 ! yards; heavy wool stockings, 10.663 pairs; , granulated, sugar, . 160,000 pounds; syrup, 15.000 cans No. 10: black tea, 12,000 ! pounds: tomatoes, 565,520 cans; summer ! undershirts, 10,526; winter undershirts, 1172; flavoring extract, 1832 bottles; ! cloves, 8684 cans; cinnamon, 5000 Vi-j Vi-j pound cans; soap, 88,700 pounds. I At Fort Douglas the following surplus I articles are now in storage: Woolen blankets. 1800; hard bread, 1709 pounds; syrup, 804 cans. Four, large field desks, declared surplus, are also stored at Fort Douglas. Mayor's Report Adverse. I Tn response to inquiries put by Commissioner Com-missioner Karl A. Scheid, Mayor W. Mont Ferry made an informal and adverse report re-port to tho city commission yesterday with regard to the advisability of purchase pur-chase by Salt Lake of food supplies offered of-fered for sale by the "government. Mayor Ferry expressed the opinion that I the consumer would realize little benefit ben-efit from any handling of the goods bv the citv after the government prices and overhead costs had been met. He said no guarantee of quality can be had I from the government and that the prices at which the government is offering the , goods are not sufficiently lower than j the retail prices in Salt Lake to constl- I tute a safe working margin that would insure ready disposal with desired econ- , omy for the consumers. Commissioner Scheid inquired specifically specifi-cally about bacon, calling attention to the fact that the government prices are 34 and 36 cents, and that the retail price in Salt Lake for premier bacon is 75 cents a pound. Mayor Ferry responded with the explanation that there was no guarantee of superior quality with regard re-gard to the government bacon and that bacon of one grade can be had in Salt Lake for as low as SO cents retail. The matter went by default for the time being, be-ing, no definite action being taken by the commission, of which but four members mem-bers were present, Commissioner Green being" on a vacation trip to Bear Lake. Storage Plants Under Probe. Mayor Ferry explained that the announcement an-nouncement from the governor's office that the state was to take measures to get some of the food for distribution here had tended to deter him from taking tak-ing action, as well as had the report that the supplies were to be available to consumers con-sumers through parcel post. Cold storage plants of Salt Lake are still under investigation by federal agents, and the search for large amounts of foodstuffs in refrigeration will be continued con-tinued until the end of the week, according ac-cording to an announcement made by Dave Gershon, special agent for the department de-partment of justice, who is carrying on the probe here and co-operating with the district attorney's office. According to an announcement made yesterday by Mr. Gershon, investigation has shown that Swift & Co. have stored in a local plant 4000 pounds of poultry, which has been in refrigeration since March, 1M18. Thin company and the Fulton Ful-ton market have been the only concerns yet named by Mr. Gershon as having poultry on hand as found so far in the probe. Following the report of the Swift & Co. poultry store by Mr. Gershon, AX. A. Sivewright. assistant manager of Swift & Co.. made the following statement: "Regarding poultry which Swift & Co. has in storage at the Tyng cold storage plant, this poultry was reported as having hav-ing been stored in March, 1918. The fact is that on March 18 and 24, 1919, the company stored in the Tyng warehouse a total of 26,830 pounds of poultry. Its present holdings in storage are 4300 pounds; its total sales since the first of April to date are 26.3S6 pounds. "Taking as a basis our sales for the past four months, our present holdings do not represent four weeks' supply." Favors Large Storage, S. "V. McClure, secretary of the National Na-tional AVoolgrowers' association, said yesterday yes-terday that big cold storage stocks are the safeguard of the country, and that thev tend to keep prices from soaring during the time of nonproduction by keeping keep-ing the supply of food until it is needed. |