The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-18

DUB AARKETA
What wheeling People Have Eaisn Dur.
Ing lhe Past Winter and What Th0y
Have Paid for it-PrOsPestS for New
Vegetables.
Last season was q most prolific one,
fruits Of all kind were abundant aud
cheap, hRrve6ts were unusually boun.
tiful and vegetables were never finer
or more plentiful, In short the summer
and fall Of 1880 will long be remembered
in this country as seasons Of the utmos I
plenty and prosperity. The riSor OF the
past winter has, however, served
to make large inroads upon the garnsIsd
harvests, the abundant quantities Of
apples, potatoes and other fruits and yege.
tables slowed away for use in the "mel.
snGholy" days, and now the coming Of
spring finds very limited sup
ply Of these articles available. Wheat has |
been commanding price ranging from
corn has ranged from forty to dity.fvs
cents; oats from thirty to forty.fye cents
hay from fifteen to twenty-five dollars
straw from eight to fifteen dollars, (the
latter Ia largely used in our glass
fACtories), Apples last year were unpre.
Cedently plentiful, and early last fall were
drag in the market, Immense quaint.
ties were shipped 10 Baltimore, Philadel.
phia and New York, by our commission
merchants, In this city they commanded
price ranging from fifty to seventy.6ye
cents barrel. During the early cold
weather they reached their highest price,
one dollar and twenty-five and one'ffEy,
but any quality OF good apples could be
purchased at any time for less prices.
The supply is yet large, the fruit having
kept sp!endidly, and good apples can
now be purchased at less than q dollar
and half q barrel,
Potatoes started out last fall at sixty.
five and eighty cents per bushel, but soon
advanced to one dollar, and they are now
worth one dollar and twenty-five and one
dollar thirty.6Ve cents bushel, and the
likelihood Is that they will be still higher
before the arrival Of the new crop. Our
supplies OF potatoes come principally from
poiuts down the river, but very large
proportion oil them are raised hereabouis.
Sweet potatoes have also become quite
and are yearly becoming more popular.
The local supply Is not near equal to the
demand, and large quantities are brought
during the winter season from Baltimore,
the New Jersey gardens, and also from
Richmond, Va,
Turnips and parsnips have been very
plentiful all season, at low prices.
Cabbage has been scarce and high all
winter and now commands fancy price
ranging from fifteen to twenty-five cents
for good heads.
Canned fruits and vegetables have be-.
come immensely popular, as articles oil
food, and much attention is being to
the preservation oil corn, tomatoes beans
and other vegetables, while berries OF all
kinds, peaches, apples, cherries, and other
small fruits have been meeting with great
favor for many years. These cans oil fruits
are very cheap, ranging In price from
81 90 to $500 and s. 81 dozen, or from
fifteen TO twenty-five cents each, and In
come instances less than that.
New vegetables are very slow In arriv.
inH this spring, and on account OF liza back.
wardness 1t will be very late before ordi.
nary early vegetables will be on the mar.
ket. 80 lar a few little onions, some kale,
lettuce and rhubarb are the only new
articles OF food that we have yet heard OF.
Onions are only five cents a bunch, kale
twenty-five and thirty centa peck, let.
tuce fifty to sixty cents peck, II will be
at least month or two before new
potatoes arrive, and there ia no telling
when peas, cabbage and other luxureS
will come.
Wheeling Is the best market In the
United States" said Mr.. H. O. Meyers, q
Wholesale commission merchant, to our
reporter day or to ago, land It is steadily
becoming better. There is moro money
to Us In keeping eggs, butter and other
pFoduCeat home here than In sending them
to Eastern markets. There is q great deal
more money 10 US In the sale OF barrel OF
apples at ST 20 or 81 SO here than TO sell
them In Baltimore at 81 90 or 81 G5. The
same thing can be said OF other products,
We find no difficulty in selling nearly all
the produce brought to US from all the
country tributary to Wheeling, right here
at home, at excellent prices. There has
been a wonderful business done In our
line this season, and It has been paying
business too"
Another gentleman engaged In the same
business Corroborated the statement made
by Mr.. Meyers, and all agree that yeget.
ables and garden truck will be very late
In maturing this spring.