The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-28

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MARKHT, MUSIHGs.
An Hour Among the Growers and nueh'
Sters In the second Ward, Yesterday
Morning.
The distinguishing features Of yesterday
mornings mSrket were the stiff prices OIL
butter and tomatoes. Butter was quoted
from 20 to rs cents, according to quality,
"Thsre's Ice on this butter, isn't there2'
asked one buyer, after hearing the latter
price asked.
mot muchl" (meaning thars wasn'
any. "What d'y ask fort" ,
"oh, because it's 60 stiff. che replied,
and was about to pass on when the dealer
in brindle'a produce explained, "You
know this is harvest time, and many PEG.
pie are not making butter, but instead are
consuming. This makes 1t scarce, and
keeps up the price,"
Reader, did you evor see the average
woman buy butter2 Just put your arm
10 the reporters and walk with him ovel
to that wagon. There, now, lean up
against the wheel and wait. Here she
comes now. She first asks the price; then
pulls the rag of hall q dozen rolls. Seiz'
lug q kniis, she CuLs off little "gobs'' from
successive rolls, and puts them oil In hOI
mouth and ChewB them In 0 Suspicious
and anxious manner, In the meanwhile
viewing the dealer with an anxious eye to
see II he 10 q disguised oleomArgarine
agent. Bearing no trade marks Of such q
character, neither that OF q Eihiliat, she
~uncoYerp her basket, and pointing 10 the
very smallest roll or the one that has been
cut the most, says: II believe I'll take hall
q pound oil that"
The reporter quoted everything quota.
bic In the market, and found the prices 10
rate as iollowH
Potatoes SOC a peck. No change from
this price by any dealer.
Tomatoes, from 20 to 25c q quarter peck
or 1901 peck.
Cabbage, 8 to l5c per head az per size.
Beans, 400 per peck; peas the same.
Corn, ofgood quality, 15c dozen, extra,
zoe.
Beetp, three lunches for 1Oc; cauliaow.
or, s, 10 and loo a head; cucumbers, 8 for
1901 new onions, 8 punches for 100, or 40c
per dozen punches; old onionE, l5t a quar-.
ter peck. carrots, 8 lunches for 1857 spit
toon shaped squash, s and los q head
lima beans, zoe a quart. Mint and sage
sold Tor DO u bunch, and vermyle 100 q
bunch.
Apples, %, 80, So, 40 and 900 q peck &C.
cordlng TO quality. 6ome offered OF 300 O
peck looked as good as any offered at the
highest price, though only one lot was
quoted at that.
Pears, zoo q quarter peck. Several Va.
rletieS are In the market.
Watermelons range from 80 10 COO 90.
cofdlDg to size; nutmegs 10 TO 15c; black.
berries, 8 boxes for 26C, and huCkleberries
two quarts for % or 400 q bucket.
Chickens were moderately plenty and
were generally quoted at 30 10 So cent?
each. Eggs. were sold at every place al
Il! cents q dozen.
The vegetable market was rather rsRRed
yesterday. Many faCeB wero missed and
prices seemed to hold very Arm. Tue fol.
lowing solution was given by an intelligent
C%incinnatus: "Fhis year you'd be as.
tonlShed At the amount OF truck that Ia
shipped BY growers from here 10 towns
up and down the river | never knew
sICh On outside demand before and At
such prices. Why growers got nearly as
much at wholesale as they do here Ia
market and Of Coutse they don't want
tho bother Of coming here 10 SELL"
"Do you think vegetables will still keep
up TO q pretty high feuts?"
II do, indeed; l nan tell you honestly,
that the crop is 80 small owing 10 damage
by water that the supply hardly equals
the demand. There are tomatoes fuf In.
stance. People wonder what keeps them
up. Why even VI those now gu my vines
half The green On6H arc foLtSd. Aud the
same scarcity is general"
GOOD thing for you folks then. High
prices, Aye?"
mot At all. 1 won't make as much
money from my gardening as | did last
year, when things were very cheap, 70
YOU remember"
For fifteen minutes, with occasional In.
terruptions, q fruit man who had 4 GOOD
many huckleberfiss on hAhdhel forth on
the dangers Of picking this fruit In a way
that would have blAhched the cheek Of an
August peach. "Them hucklebeffiea
come mostly from the back counties Of
West Virgins, IN the B. L o. road. I'm
ssllin' 'ehi at forty cents q bucket. Now,
you wouldn't think when you was buyih'
these berries from me At fifteen cents a
quart that every berry plucked Of lie
mother stem might have cost the picker
bic ilie," 81
"0h get outl' said the reporter
"solum iActl replied the DEALER There's
fattlennakes where them berries grow "a
long 40 that wagon tongue, and piekefs
hear theft notes Of anger sounding like
hoop.pole tatIled along d palihg fence; vel
pick on, and here they are d only
ftteen cents q quart or forty cent?
buOtetp
"DId you ever hear Of anyone being
bitten"
mot al lofty q bucket; no Stree" was
lnaweted, and The reporter. who was
,dged out BY q fat woman With q basket
N each arm, hunted around for more Ia.
ofmAtlon, but instead found out q little
tote Of interest to the effect that MI. ]. H.
dill was the fiat man In market this sea.
on with strawberries, raapbeffieS, black.
,effies and WAteFmelonA. I
Looking sadly Al 4 bAtTel Of Hanover
the reporter hdAed along, smiled |
Ree(ly upon bis lavoflte market gitl and |
loWly disappeared on the horizon Of
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