THE FIVE CENT BREAD LOAF
IN MINNEAPOLIS: AND NOME?
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 12— (by
mail). At lho recent meeting of
the National Nonpartisan league at
Minneapolis, Prof E. F. Ladcl of
the North Dakota Agricultural
college gave the following anal
ysis of the cost of a barrel of flour
and of a loaf of broad:
It is estimated that 4 1-2 bushels
of wheat, cr 270 pounds, will pro
duce one barrel of flour of 196
pounds; that is, when it is milled
to 72.6 per cent of flour, and it has
been recommended that lho per
cent of flour should be greater than
this, but at 72.G per cent milled
there would remain, approximate
ly 74 pounds of mill feed.
Let us rake the cost of wheat as
milled for producing one barrel of
flour. The miller does not, in the
larger commercial mills, U3e No. 1
Northern as the wheat from which
ho produces his flour, but the aver
age, under tlm present grades,' will
probably be about No. 4 Let us
see, then, what will be the cost of
the wheat for a barrel of flour on
the Minneapolis market if the basic
price for No. 1 Northern is $2.20
at Chicago.
First, thero is a differential of
3c. in freight, in favor of Minne
apolis, or the basic price at Minne
apolis would bo $2.17. If No. 4
wheat is used in the mills of Min
neapolis for the production of the
Reasonable price*, and first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
Company.
Y-ou’ll see It first In the Worker.
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FOOD
PRESERVATION
SALE
Het Springs Vegetables
Sack price
15 lbs.* $1.00
G. Wash. Instanteneous Coffoe
targe Cans.46c
Small Cans .... 2 for 56c.
Reliance Coffee
2 2 pound tins .. .. $1.66
Instant Poetum
Small cans.... 3 for 85c.
Large cans.. each 55c
Flower Bud Toilet Soap
per dozen cakes.76c.
Rose Blossom Glycerine Soap
$ bars for.. .. 6c.
Clean Easy Soap
Save fuel and labor
15 bars .. . ^.$1.0-0
Pearline Washing Powder
Per Pkg.10c.
Royal Chef Clams
2 Cans for.25c.
Dried Calif. Black Grapes
(RAISINS)
2 lbs. for .. .. 26c.
Calarab Figs
per pkg.10c.
Golovin Bay Herring
per kit.$1.50
Spiced Pickled Herring
reedy to eat, per doz.76c.
Pickled Eels
per lbr.15c.
ALASKA COD
per Lbs.10c.
Small pink Beans
One ordev to a customer
7 lbs. for.$1.00
A-I SAUSE.
Small bottles 2 for.46c.
Large bottles.45c.
LIBBY FANCY RIPE OLIVES
Quart tins each .... 40c.
COCOA
Lipton, pei- tin.. 15c.
Horsheys 5 lbs. tins per lb... 50c.
SOOT DESTROYER
3 pkgs.. 60c.
A. Polet
flour, then there is another saving
of 10 cents per bushel for the cost
of the wheat at the mill door is
$2.07. Let us assume that the
handling expense, commission, etc.,
will bring this to $2.10 per bushel
as the value of the wheat that
goes upon the rolls; that means
then, that the wheat at the rolls in
the mill has cost $9.45 for the
barrel of flour, or, to summarize,
as follows:
The actual figures:
Wheat, 4 1-2 bu. at $2.10 bu $0.45
Cost of milling, per baric-1 . . .75
Miller's profit.. . . .25
Total.* 10.45
| Let us now ascertain what the
: returns are from this product as
milled and converted into bread
and feed stuff:
j The above, deducted from the
j cost of the wheat, or $10.45 mi
nus $1.25, equals $t.2v as the cost
of straight flour, but the baker uses
considerable of grades lower than
I straight flour in hts shoa Never
theless, let us itnns orm this flour
at $9.20 per barrel into 11 ounce
loaves of bread and in some parts
of the country the average weight
of bread is found to he 14 ounces,
and in others 12 ounces. There
fore, we will take both sets of
ligures and the prices i 1 varied
frera 5c. to 10c. pei loaf. We will
therefore use befh sets of pricrs.
One barrel af flour will easily
make 300 1 naves of 14-ouuce
bread, or 350 Icvei of 12-ounce
bread .
Value
of Loaves.
6c. 10c.
200 14-ounco loaves $1.00..$3 O'
3F0 12ounce loaves 17.00 35.00
The cost of this flour was, as al
ready stated. $9.20. Therefore
when the bread is retailed at 5c.
DANCING SCHOOL.
At the Miners Home Club Hall,
Dancing Class every Mond., Tuesd.
Wednesday and Friday, evening
from 8 P. M. to 11 P. M. Admis
sion to class $1.00. Private lessons
$1.00 per hour.
MRS. GKO WALDHELM, Teacher.
NOTICE.
The Modini's B. of T. Restau
rant is closed for a few days in
order to make some remodelling so
that the place can be run more eco
nomical and will also arrange to
run furnished rooms In connection.
MRS. R. ». SEIDLER
Has Opened First Class
REPAIRING ESTABLISHMENT
FRONT STREET. Next door to The
Emporium
We are here to please old and
new patrons. We do the best
CLEANING, PRESSING,
ALTERING & REPAIRING.
First class workmanship.. Gent
lemens and Ladies Clothes.
EIGHT HOUR FIRMS.
The following business houses
have signified to this paper their
cheerful adoption of the Eight
Hour Day.
A. Polet.
Thorulf Lehman.
Pacific Cold Storage Co.
North Pole Bakery.
Arctic Candy Store and Bhkery.
Nome Bottling Co.
Chas L. Ross, Transfer.
E. W. Carleton Hardware Co.
The Surprise Store.
Cheap John’s Store.
Lomon Bros
Kristan’s Emporium.
The Nonpareil.
Ed L. Holt.
P. A. Peterson Shoo Co.
A. Wittenberg.
Crowley Grocery Company.
Anvil Bakery.
Nome Bakery.
Nomo Bakery Annex.
Milo’s Cafo.
Rowo Transfer Co.
C. C. Crooks. 2nd and Store.
B. O. T. Cafe.
Nome Tailoring Co.
Alaska Dream Theater.
Wm. Stipek,
Independent Meat Market.
U. S. Mercantile Co.
Hill’s Pharmacy.
Board of Trade.
Subscribe now for the Worker
and keep Posted.
Bring your forfeiture notice* to tb*
Industrial Works*;
per loaf of j.2 ouiros. which ia
about the average size loat in this
section of the country, there is a
gain of $6.31) for the material
used in baking, and the cost of re
tailing the bread. Or, if wo take
the loaves at 10c. we have $25.SO
as the difference. Certainly it can
not cost%2 1-2 times as much to
convert flour into bread and retail
it as it does for the farmer to raise
the wheat, transport it to the mill,
and for the miller to transform it
into flour.
Thero was prepared and sub
mitted to the committee on price
fixing for wheat, by J. W. Suilivau
a ,‘tatement giving the approximate
retail prices for bread in several
European countries as compared
with Washington. For the early
spring the data is as folio vs:
Cents
Composi- Wheat per
Country tion Ounces Loaf
Gerat Britain, war bread 32 11
France. war bread 35 8
City of Lyons war bread 35 9
Belgium.35 10
Italy ....... war bread 35 8
Washington, war bread 14 10
Composition. of war bread in
France is SO per cent wheat ana
20 per cent rye, barley and corn.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT WILL
TAKE OVER SHOE FACTORIES
PARIS, Feb. 8.—A miuistrerial
decree requisitioning all tlio shoe
factories in France, effective Fe
bruary 15, is supposed by the shoe
trade to be intended to overcome
'ho disinclination, of the manufac
turers to make the new national
thoe in the quantities demanded by
the government. Five hundred
thousand p^irs monthly were ord
ered, and only a small port of
(hat liunb.r was put on sale.
A prominent wholesale dealer
expresses the opinion that the re
quisitioned shops will be put to
work immediately after February
15 on their respective proportions
of the required output of the na
• ir.na1 shoe, with the pnvi'ege of
using the balance of their capacity
for private manufacture.
DO YOU WANT TO ECONOMIZE?
Buy a Lang Range, or Coles Heater and save
1-3 your coal bill
CARLETON HARDWARE CO.
*!• From* M.
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The Eagle
Cigars, Tobacco
Soft Drinks
Biliards and Pool
/ Lunch Counter
lwlwpr-,,YTr7fTTi*YT,r,rrrryrf
LADIES AND DENIS MOD
Tour Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired.
SUITS MACK TO ORDER from
select fabrics and trimmings.
' Aid, WORK GUARANTEED.
Cor. Kane's Way and Front Street.
M. PASCOFF.
Prepare for the winter by patron
ising the advertisers of your paper,
Mr. Miner!
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CASH & CARRY SYSTEM
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{ As an inducement to our customers to practico economy,
*| wo have decided to inaugurate the Cash and CARRY System.
Many stores on the Outside ere using this system with
much success. The idea is to offer, as an inducement to pay
cash and carry the goods home with you, a cash discount,
which we propose to do as folows.
On all groceries or merchandise purchased from us, ‘for
which you pay cash and carry the goods home, we will give a
discountof 5 per cent, except on SUGAR, FLOUR & MILK, on
these goods which are sold on a very close margin we
will give 2 1-2 per cent.
Thus if you buy ¥1.00 worth of goods and pay CASH and
CARRY you get 5c. off, if yoy buy $5.00 worth, you get 25c. off
Bring your market basket when you go shopping. PRACTICE
ECONOMY. SAVE THE NICKELS AM) DIMES.
D. E. CROWLEY GROCERY GO.
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prior to March I the special prize
Will be awarded to Mrs. James
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Remember all tickets ending
with the unit six are redeemable
for face value in merchandise
Lomen Bros.
Three Stores
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IT 18 NOT '
NECESSARY FOR US TO f . '
ADVERTISE ANY PRESERVATIONS
* JOB-LOT OR JUNK SALES IN
ORDER TO DIS POSE OF OUR GOODS
Thorulf Lehmann
WE HAVE THE CLEANEST STOCK
OF HIGH GRADE GROCERIES If**?
X :v *•;, AND PROVISIONS IN 'i* i ’ -1 . j,
NOME, AND OCR PRICES ' t; <
ARE VERY CLOSE.
Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL MED
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
ji work. Call up Black |
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1HE INDUSTRIAL WORKER OFFICE
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