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Show MEAT PRICES TO DROP IN OGDEN One of Ihe things which Ogden housewives will have to be thankful for on the last Thursday of this month will be a drop In the price of pork and its products. A relief in high-priced high-priced pork Is now sweeping Ogden-ward Ogden-ward from the eastern madkets and a ten or cent cut in hams, bacon, lard and other products of the hog may be expected by Thauksglviug day, If not sooner. According to A M. Miller, president of one of the local meat companies, the fall in meat prices has not yet reached Ogden, but will be felt within with-in the next week or ten days. It will affect only the meat products that are shipped from th. east and will not lowed the price of beef to any appreciable extent. "'The drop in the prlcee of pork," ald Mr. Miller, "is due to a number of different causes. I believe that one of these is the so-called 'consumers' strike." People have not been eating aa much meal as Ik? fore the prices soared so high. On the other hand, the high price has had a tendency to cause more hogs and cattle to be raised. rais-ed. Now a sort of collapse has taken place. More bogs are being thrown on t lie market than can be disposed of at the high figures and the result I Is the price hua gone down. The cut should be felt In Ogden within ten days or, at the most, within two weeks. Just now there Is no change In the price lecausi' no eastern product pro-duct has reached I'tah since the drop It is hard to predict how much of a drop there will be. but I think it. is safo to say It will amount to ten per cent." Asked if he considered the lower prices would be permanent, Mr. Miller Mil-ler stated he felt sure that the time of hU'h priced meat was at an end. at lca,t so far as one accustomed to keeping his ee on the meat market can see. He eald the drop which Is being felt throughout tho entire CHfit Is not a spasmodic slump, but a real reduction of the price and that It Is certain to mean a considerable cheapening cheap-ening of pork products for a long time to come. |