Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-25
General Markets.

The fruit market is very active, and car
load lots of California fruit is being daily
received but the variety is limited some
what. Apricots are now entirely out of
the market. Bartlett pears are plenty and
command from 81 to $3.50; plums from
So to $3.50; peaches from 81 to 81. so. A
few grapes have made their appearance,
but they are not quite up to the standard.
A quantity is expected to arrive in few
days. The strawberry season is about
over, they are all too soft and there are
but few of them left. Blaeberries still re-
main at $4@4.50 per bushel, but they will
undoubtedly be cheaper. Blackberries,
raspberries, cherries, etc., are too soft to
ship. Michigan peaches have made
their appearance and sell at
$1.75@2 per 3 of a box; Messina
oranges, $3.50 per box; California oranges
do not keep well, and are selling at 81
per box; lemons are advancing and are
now quoted at $7@7.50 per box; apples,
new, 1891 per 3 bu., by the box, SOC 5c,
as to quality and variety; bananas, choice
Aspinwalls, $3@4.50 per bunch; cocoanuts,
selected Carthagenus, Sc per 100; toma-
toes, $1.25 per 4 bu. box; dates IN trails,
SC per pound; Duffy's New York clarified
cider, $3.50 per bbl or 26c per gal. in casks:
peanuts, fancy hand picked White Virginia,
12c per pound; Teragona almonds, 18c;
new Naples walnuts, 15c; new French wal
nuts, 12c; new Brazil nuts, 12c; new Sicily
tilberts, 12e; new Baraco flberts, 1Oc; Pc
cans, Zoe; Cicily shciled almonds, in % ID.
boxes, 35c per 10.
CATTLE have been in good supply and
the market is now easy with a fair demand.
Choice steers $59525; fair to
good, $4.25@ good mixed, So. 75@425;
mich COWS, $40g65; veal calves, $500
per 100 lbs.
ONIONS are quoted at 25@3Oc per bu.,
outgoing from 40 to SOC. Bermudas
$1.25 to $3.50 per box.
HoGs-The supply of hogs, though small,
is abundantly sufficient for the demand.
Dressed are quoted at 7@715c. No live
hogs are coming in, bat the quotations are
kept up 5@515c.
SHEEP-Mutton still continues to be
moderate IN price and in good supply.
Quotations for shearlings are $3.50
4.75; city dressed, Sc; country dressed.
715@8c.
Provisions, remain at the decline not
ed last week-Mess pork. $3.50;
hams, 1215@124; clear bacon, scarce
l215c; spiced and breakfast bacon, 1910;
shoulders, 84@83c; tierce lard, 1Oc; keg
lard, 1012c; wooden pals, twenty pounds
1112c; tin pals, 3 pounds, 1870; 1C
pounds, lac; mess beef, $12@12.5O per
barrel; smoked beef, 15c per pound.
FLoUR-Is quiet and weaker. Patents
$6.5O@6.75; straight $5.75@6; bakers
xxx, $4@4.25.
BREWERS SUPPLIES has declined
to SOC. Hops, both Washington and New
York, have declined to 45c.
BUTTER-Nothing more can be added in
regard to butter than what has already
been said. 1t is dead and fiat. There is
no sale for it at all.
DRESSED MEATs-Beef sides dressed "a
Sic. Mutton, city dressed, sc. Veal
$4,000.
HIDES are in good demand and are firm
at quotations. Green hides are coming in
slowly and quotations are unchanged.
LIME, CEMENT, ETo.-Quotations are as
follows: Oshkosh, Port Byron and Mil
waukee white lime, $1.25 per barrel; Mil
waukee cement, $1.50 per barrel; Louis
vile cement, $1.85 per barrel, plaster
paris 81 per barrel; clustering hair, 35 @
40c per barrel; st. Louis No. 1 fire
brick, $40 per thousand; fire clay, $3.50
per barrel.