Excerpt from A Report on the Retail Prices of Nitrate of Soda and Phosphate as of May 1, 1919 The wholesale quotation on nitrate of soda in New York City was per ton from December 9, 1918, to February 24, 1919. On March 3 it was $84 per ton and on March 10 it was quoted at per ton, which price has prevailed up to and including April 28. The average retail price per ton reported from the New England States was from Pennsylvania, from the East North Central States, from the South Atlantic States, from the East South Central States, and from the West South Central States, Differences in freight rates no doubt have some influence in these variations among States and regions, but freight rates alone can not explain the wide variations in prices in different counties in the same State, as shown by a further analysis of the figures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.