Deseret Evening News | 1908-04-25 | Page 8 | High Meat Prices

HIGH MEAT PRICES Protest Against A Them Form of or Greatly Diminished I c CS Chicago April 25 2 Public protest against tho lie high prices prevailing for fOI fresh meat ineat particularly beef bee and amid mutton is Ic 1 taking a It form little to he hie liking of time the wholesale anti retail dealers Not in many mami years has hns tIme tho public generally so vigorous vigorously ly Iy to tel the time extravagant values they aro 1110 called on to pay for tOI moats Tho The re cc suit fult inca has been a 11 curtailment 1 t ho tho I consumption on a I scale not deemed possible a n to few etc months ago Meat eat salesmen all nil over ChicagO as ns aswell well as In him other largo lallo cities assert ns elt that their trade has fallen off 50 GO per pcr percent percent cent In the last lust month rile Tho same complaint of o poor loor demand Id Is heard from shippers of live hive cattle und and dress dreGs dressed ed beef to tn New York and amid other west wc t urn em points n 11 The consuming public has evidently unwittingly taken tho the only ony on course courne that hat hatwill will bring about lower prices anti and by bythe the time I of ot other foods for tile the higher priced meats Is causing tho the meat dealers much concern