Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 1 | Butter is Going Above 60 Cents

uu BUTTER IS GOING . ABOVE 60 CENTS New .York, 'Jan. IS. Buttor at 00 cents retail, within a fow days, with indications' that it .will go higher still, is prophesied by wholesalers hero who profess themselves unable lo supply the demand, even at a considerable con-siderable premium, abovo the present wholesale price of 12 cents. According to G. W. Martin, president presi-dent of the Mercantile Exchange, there is no combination to keep butter off the market so as to force tho price skyward, but tho explanation Ik in tho fact that the supply is exhausted. ex-hausted. Butter Is " being Imported from Canada to meet the hotel and cafe demand.