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Show VEGETABLES IT VERY HIGH PRICE Salt Lake. Feb 22 Of all the food products that are soaring skyward, none compares with the unparalleled advance of potatoes, onions and cabbages cab-bages A report from the commission er of weight.- in New York City states that onions selling a year ago at $2 .50 a hundredweight are selling today at. $14, and cabbages iht sold for 511 a ton are now selling at $160. Although Al-though the prices of these vegetables j are not so high locally, as shown in the report of the commissioner of I weights, nevertheless an abnormal condition con-dition prevails. R Hancock nf Hanrnel: TAr-nthem I gTOcers, yesterday gave as the princi-j 'pal cause for the advance In the price I of cabbages the drought that prevailed' throughout the country last July. Hei I said that Utah produced only one-third I of the normal crop, and that at Christ-! mas no Ctah cabbages were on the I market. He further stated that, where-1?, where-1?, under normal conditions, cabbages could be procured in plentiful quanti-1 quanti-1 ties from Texas and Oregon, this ar California is the only state which can be drawn upon As tn potatoes, Mr Hancock said that there are 4n,oori bushels in Salt Lake and iTtah counties to his personal person-al knowledge, but, owing to the impos-bility impos-bility of getting them to the depot' : for shipment without freezing, the ', I farmers are keeping them stored away in their cellars The Idaho warehousemen, warehouse-men, he said, have seen the condition that exists in the eastern markets. 1 and are shipping them "fst. to profit b the higher prices pioeurable. Mr. Hancock has just returned from Idaho, I 1 where, he says, there are hundreds of I 'fairaers living from thirty to forty I miles off the railroad, where it is so '.cold that the potatoes cannot b hauled for half a mile without freer-mg. freer-mg. He further declared that until! a lew cars of new potatoes mak- their 1 entrance into the market ihe high prices will continue. The eastern markets cleared up all ' the onions several months ago, accord-1 ling to Mr Hancock. Owing to the! drought and freezing weather, the j crop in the easi was far below normal 1 He eaid that there are onions now in the ground, which will be available as . soon as the snow is off, when the j prices of this veceiable will according-1 I ly be lower. 1 |