, 1883-02-15
Seattle Markets.


deneyof the local markets for the past
week has been firm.
FLOUR is very firm, and we quote:
Extra, per barrel, at from $3.50 to $3.50,
and an advance is liable to take place
again at any time. The high price of
flour is accounted for by the fact that
spectators have bought up the wheat
crop and made corner thereon.
OATS are firm and in good demand;
S35 per ton has been paid for first class
quality.
BUTTER-Country made is scarce,
and California butter generally found
IN the markets. Prices vary from 30 to
315 cents per pound.
EGGS have advanced little and are
scarce. Jobbers are paying from 40 to
As cents per dozen.
CHICKENS-The surplus chicken
corp has been pretty well bought up by
Cinnamon in order to feast during their
holidays. Dealers have been paying
from $3.50 to S6 per dozen for chickens
and retailed them at rs cents each
Chickens should be sold by the pound,
as there is no justice in one farmer sell
ing nice fat fowls for the same price
that his neighbor gets for poor, misera-
BILE, half-starved ones.
POTATOES One of the most difficult
things of the present time is to get good
potatoes. Years ago the difficulty was
not encountered. Whether or not the
new varieties introduced during the
past few years have been OF inferior
kind we cannot say, but it does seem as
if they have been. Fifteen and twenty
years ago good, sound, mealy, whole
some potatoes were the rule. Now they
are the exception. Perhaps some OF our
readers can give reason for this
change to the worse. We note adecline
of 5 cents bushel since our last report,
the going rate now being 35G4O cents
per bushel. Receipts are free, and
there are nosigns of q straitened market
during the present crop year.
HAY-Many causes have combined to
gradually raise the price of hay during
the past few months. The crop of 1882
was large one, to be sure, but it was
not increased over the crop OF 1881 in
proportion to the increased consump-
ton. The logging camps alone have
taken more hay during the past twelve
months than during the previous twen-
ty-four, while the demand in the towns
on the Sound is at least 30 per cent.
greater than in 1881. Besides these
calls the railroad builders have taken a
great deal where they took none year
ago. Last year this time hay was selling
at S12 and S14 ton and was dull at that
Three months ago S15 and SIC were the
highest prices paid. Now SlS is the
lowest for baled timothy, on the farm,
Col. Squire selling four car loads at that
price during the past week. The cold
weather OF the past month has stiffened
up prices remarkably. 1t does seem as
il $40 and perhaps $50 will have to be
paid before summer, as there is but lit
tie hay in the country. These prices
already prevail on the Columbia river,
and hay cannot be brought here from
California at profit for less.
ONIONS have slightly advanced, and
we quote 1l5 and 1al per pound.
APPLES--No change.
BEEF-The wholesale price OF beef
has advanced from s to 8 cents per
pound, and is firm at that figure, by the
quarter. Beef on foot has advanced
from Az to cents per pound.
PORK has also advanced, and we
quote neat, 9Q9l5 cents; pork on foot,
to 6l3 cents.
MUTTON has also gone up figure
and butchers are paying from 01s to 10
cents neat, and A. to cents on foot.
In the retail markets beef ranges from
10 to IS cents per pound, according to
quality; pork from 10 to 1919 and NUT