Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-02 | Page 16 | S. L. Food Cost under Average

S. S L L. L FOOD COST UNDER AVERAGE Stilt Snit Lakers arc are paying only SUi per cent as as much for their foods as was paid on an average over the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion from 1923 to 1925 While local prices arc about the same samo as last year they are lower than at Denver with per cent San Francisco with but higher than at Butte with 78 5 Los Angeles with and Portland Ore with according to a n federal labor department statistician Miss Stella Stewart of ot Washington Washing Washing- ton D. D C. C chief of the tho retail price division of the bureau of labor statistics statistics statistics sta sta- Saturday was vas en route to Denver after consultations with Salt Lake City retailers She is working on the bureaus bureau's Index from 64 cities involving 84 foods and staple commodities The purpose of the index Inde- is to check fluctuation in food prices with wage levels she hc said