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Show time at comparatively low prices, are now charging all they can get, i and even more, for that same storage fuel. With all kinds of goods being lowered in price in the East, the merchants in the West should be as eager to explain to their customers cus-tomers that they can now sell for less, as they were eager a year ago to make plain that, because prices were going up in the East, they were forced to put up the price of goods in Ogden. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. Having sent things skyhigh on Eastern quotations, it is now in order for the dealers to drop back to earth on the smaller cost of goods. BACK TO EARTH WITH PRICES. Gibson's index numbers on the cost of living show a decline in all necessities since the first of this year. All foods have fallen from C0.8 to 54.8; clothing from 19.3 to 18.9; minerals from 20.7 to 20.5; all other than foods. 56.0 to 54.6. The total shows a drop from 116.8 to 109.4, which is about 6 per cent. These figures do not include the big drop in meats which has taken tak-en place within the last few days. The tendency of prices is unmistakably downward. We trust that the Ogden dealers will bo among the first to respond re-spond to this drop and give the people of Ogden the benefit of the accrer::-. T v;y f.;. do as the Salt Lake and other coal dealers, who, laving accumulated a large stock of storage coal in the summer |