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Show GROCERS WITH EXTRA SUGAR SUPPLY IRE IWIEISY It is expected that within the next few days, the government will fix the retail price on sugar. Exactly what this price will be, there is no way to determine. In anticipation of the fixing fix-ing of the price, there is chaos in the local sugar market. Several- dealers bought sugar in.carload lots, last fall, when the price was down. They have held it, awaiting an increase. Then came the rumor that the government gov-ernment was to fix the price. It was intimated it would be far below the existing price. As a result, these speculators spec-ulators saw where they must unload at once, to make any profit at all. Indeed, In-deed, they were liable to have to sell at a loss. Sugar took a sudden drop. Dealors with a largo supply on hand underbid the others and as a result, sugar can be bought sorao places in Ogden at a trifle under quoted market price. This conditio will not last, however, as the price to be fixed by tho government govern-ment will soon be in effect, when further fur-ther speculation will be Impossible. nn |