Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — One Reason the Price Of Eggs Is So High. [ARTICLE]

One Reason the Price Of Eggs Is So High.

After' hearing charges by Aiderman Pretzel that l there were 37,500,000 dozen eggs in Chicago in cold storage while the price is soaring at xabout 45 cents a dozen, the Chicago council committee invited U. S. District Attorney Clyne to attend the next meeting of the committee, at which an effort will be made to show collusion on the part of the middlemen and producers to control the price of foodstuffs. Henry I. Coghlan, a Michigan farmer, testified that half a dozen Chicago operators control egg prices through the middle west. Their agents buy up the supply, he said, “contending that it was not profitable for farmers to ship.