Show Eggs ggs and Sugar i ar Higher hel in Salt Lake if Lakes I But ut Is oWe Other Pro Products s i U. U EL 4 Sa Figures gyres on o Pric Prices s Are re prices in Salt Lake at the close of the year compared I FOOD favorably with prices in all other cities of the country and for I many of the staple commodities were sO somewhat lower according to a bulletin on the cost of just issued by the United States bureau of labor and statistics There is one noticeable variation in price in which Salt Lake is high and I that is in sugar although this city is the center of the sugar industry of the West The price of sugar ranged from 2 to 3 cents a pound higher than I other cities east and west I On the staples outside of sugar the I price was generally lower by a substantial sub sub- margin than of co corresponding corre- corre re I size The bulletin shows that the price of sirloin at the close of the 1 YEar was per p pound und while at Scranton Pa the price rEached and Portland Me per pound The people in Providence n. n I. I were compelled to pay almost double the Salt Lake price or per pound for the same cut Eggs were generally higher In Salt Lake than other cities reaching a price of per dozen on November Hi 15 while In n other titles cities the price ranged around Poultry was lower in price than than than-in in corresponding cities and mille s1 vet a much prIce The cost here on November 15 was I per quart while in Scranton Pa the price paid was and In I Springfield Ill The people in Omaha paid per quart for milk and In InI Portland Ore the price reached I I Prices for these commodities in the Southern states which cannot with justice jus- jus tice he be compared with Salt Lake were 1 I generally lower I I PRICE OF POTATOES I I Potatoes sold In Salt Lake Lale at per pound which price was low as I I compared with other cities where the prices ranged from to in cities along the Atlantic seaboard It ItI was In the Far East that prices reached I their topmost figure The bulletin gives an extensive list of tables and a careful care care- ful study o of f th thi these ese will show that comi com com- i i modi ties in the West Vest generally were greatly reduced In price over the prices reached In the Far Eastern states The list of commodities included in inthe inthe the bulletin are steak roasts chuck roasts pork porI bacon ham lard lamb salmon eggs butter cheese milk bread flour cornmeal rice potatoes onions beans raisins sugar coffee and tea and with the exception of those articles which must be Imported the prices here were lower This does not include sugar however which price there here was as against and O. O in other titles The bulletin shows that there was a general Increase of 1 per cent on all aIt commodities for the month ot of October 15 to November 15 1918 as against an Increase of 18 per cent for the corresponding corresponding corre- corre month in 1917 FIGURES STARTLING The figures s for the five year period given by the bulletin are rather startling start start- ling Hag for they show that in the period named there ere was an increase of 75 per percent percent cent in the cost of all articles of food Every article listed In the bulletin showed an increase of 50 per cent Six articles Increased feu per cent or more These included pork and sugar lOOper lOO- lOO per cent flour per cent cornmeal per pel cent bacon per cent and lard per cent Figures are given to show that food which cost 1 In now costs on an average of A table for the th aver aver- Continued on page Ii 5 EGGS AND SUGAR I I II Continued from page 1 1 1 age for the years from 1913 to 1918 shows a steady climb to the now pre i tailing lIng price Figures for foreign countries also are given for the tho sam 1 period of years ears and taking 1 as abash n a bash In 1913 shows that the tho same saine commodities now cost In Austria In ht Canada In France No o J figures are given for Germany German |