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Show EUROPEAN DEMAND SLIGHT, PRICE OF SALMON FALLS SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14. The price of fresh salmon dropped five cents a pound to JO cents here yes-terday. yes-terday. The state fish exchange said ack Of a Furopean market for canned salmon was the cause. SAN' FRANCISCO. Sept 14 The depression In the Ruropean salmon market is due to pre., fixing Uy the, P.ntlh ministry of food. Great Britain i hoing th- largest foreign consumer1 Of red Alaska salmon, according to, Jos. Dumey, president of a large' packing firm. The ministry has set the price of' salmon so low that British merchants can not bring the (ood into the countrv ard dispose of it at profit. Mr Dur-ney Dur-ney said. Alaska salmon Is rated very highly as a food by the British. Mr. Dtirney stated. This year's salmon catch j'as but sixty per cent of last year's catch. ' which was a poor season, according to i Mr. Durney. The visible supply of' canned salmon today Is 2.600,000 ' pieces less than was on hand one year igo. including this season's pack and whnt was carried over from 1919. |