Deseret Evening News | 1910-01-25 | Page 1 | Agitation for Lower Prices Scores Victory

L AGITATION FO FOR rOVER i PRICES VICTORY ChIcago go Jan an against f the high cost cust of living gaIned their theirS S 1 victory here In their against r food yesterday when Ic reductions ot of tice three per cent to Ive live per perS perI S cent were announced in the I of prices of huter pork orK I products and the betor better grades of 4 beef cuts D recessIons also were wele made II in the tho value of oC lve live hogs and sheep 1 the quo on cor corn j oats ard and provisions on the speculative I markets or Of chief benefit to the tho house houser housewife r wit wife was the declines In buler butter which I dropped from 2 cents a pound whole wholesale sale salo to 31 cent cents and In eggs which re receded reS S ceded to 3 R cent cents a dozen as contrast contrasted ed cd to 34 cents last week The ElgIn I huter butter market recorded a bl big slump Buter Butter mel men who had been bidding us as high hIgi as aM iS s cents rc registered bIds of 3 39 rents on received offerings The deals 1 practically te the price Three reasons were ere given Hiven II in Elgin Eigin as the tho theS S cause of the decrease Agitation agaInst the of foot food stuffs a break In the corer corner on buter butter held I b by a buter butter company compan of oC Aurora ad the decline In the demand since the tho holidays I In the tho Chicago wholesale markets potatoes wont went down to 35 cents and GO 50 cents a bushel against an extreme I prie price of Ic on Saturday