Show Touches Topmost Point in i Thirty Years I. I I Millers P Predict ct Double Price for r ext Sprin Sp ng Flour in April April 1912 per cWt April 1912 per cwt I April 1913 per cwt April 1914 per cwt I April pet per cwt April 1916 per cwt April 1917 I In the he spring of the year flour flourIs flourI IS at Its apex I J PRODUCT pRODUCT T IS HIGHEST Ii WHEN IT SHOULD BE LOWEST I Enormous Shortage of Wheat in Nation Cause of Big Advances I APRIL TO NOVEMBER Per pounds Wholesale Retail April May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov 5 O- O Flour Flour- Flouris is higher than it it has been f for far r thirty years I It has passed the fi five fie mark I It is is' is nearly lear y double what it was one ope year ago I General General indication are th tha t the the price will continue to soar It may reach 6 6 or 7 a hundred hundred- pounds the by-the be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning of spring Millers offer offey no consolation in the wa way of a possible dro drop As it is flour is-flour flour iff is' the highest it it has been this year Under ordinary c conditions con con- n- n ons it ii should now be at it at-it its Hs lowest The spring of or the year i Is hi conceded by bythe bythe bythe the millers miller's to be the time lime for tho Highest highest High high- est prices In wheat The he usual sual conditions however have been reversed and nd the lowest now now is the highest c Apparently the wor worst t is yet et to com come Jt's Its a long lang time until spring Not only duly is Utah in the the grip of ot a flour lour situation unparalleled for many years ears but the condition is general throughout the whole United The government has compiled complIed figures showing that there is is' a theat shortage shortage shortage short short- age age this year of of bushels Ordinarily there should he be a yearly crop of there are but bushels produced this year This condition is due to to- soil conditions conditions conditions condi condi- and climatic Influences The yearly consumption of flour nour in inthe inthe inthe the United States Is estimated at pounds There is this year yeara a over carry-over from 1915 of ot only O lly bushels bushe I I I Flour in November November 1911 per cwt November 1912 per cwt I November 1913 per cwt November 1914 per cwt November 1915 per cwt November 1916 per cwt And retailed for per cwt Nov November is the month when when- flour is at its lowest price I |