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Show LOCAL fJARiET W1B1N0 EMY RELIEF IN SIGHT - x For the past two weeks Salt Lake has been short of meat. Orders have been placed weeks, and even a month ahead, before they were able to be filled by the local wholesalers- and distributers- of the Eastern packinghouses. packing-houses. This has been causea by the failure of the growers to supply the market with the live stocky although one would think the consumption would be lessened after the scathing examination examina-tion which the slaughtering pens have been subjected to. within the last few months. This has not been the case, and more meat is being eaten today than before. The recent war had something to do with this condition. ' Vast amounts of meat were canned and rushed to the front for use by the soldiers. Stock-raisers Stock-raisers all over -the country are hot raising the stock that they did formerly former-ly for some unknown reason. Last year there was a shortage of 3,000,000 hogs, as compared with that of '04, other stock correspondingly. This year np to June 30 there was a shortage of 91.000,000 pounds, as compared com-pared with 1905. To be more exact, there is now, taking ta-king figures from the four largest markets mar-kets in the United States today, that is, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas Citv . and St. Joe, a shortage of 57,000,00 cuts of meats, hams and bacons, pork in barrels bar-rels 4,000,000, and lard 30,000,000 pounds as compared with the same figures fig-ures of the year before. The consumer had not been aware of the fact until meat suddenly made a jump and chops cost 30 cents where they had only sold for 25. A higher price will soon be asked unless the market is filled within a short time, as the storage supply has about given out. Forty to ninety days are required to place t(e meat on the consumer's table cooked ready to eat. The last spring supply was very low, but the largest crop of corn ever raised in the corn belt will soon mature sufficiently to fatten the stock which will come on the market about the first of October, until un-til which time the people, will be fed as best they can with the supply. RAWLINS GROOMED FOR SUPREME COURT The latest proposed candidate of the Democratic Dem-ocratic party for the Supreme bench is former United States Senator Joseph L. Rawlins. Although the matter has not been called to Mr. Rawlins' attention, a .committee of the Srominent -Democrats of the State will an-oubtedlj an-oubtedlj call upon him to secure his eon-sent eon-sent to the presentation of his name as a candidate, some time before the State con-Tention. con-Tention. It is not believed there would be any opposition to him in the convention. Mr. Rawlins was a Delegate in Congress from Utah from 1893 to 1895, and he is credited cred-ited with securing Statehood for the Territory. Terri-tory. He was given the Senatorial toga in 1897 and served kis term of six years. He was succeeded by Reed Smoot. His ability j as S4 statesman has won for him a great name, and while in Congress his speeches on the Philippine question attracted 'attention throughout the Lnited States. |