Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-14
General Markets.

1t was mentioned last week that the fruit
dealers were setting their houses in order
for the approaching spring trade, which
promises to be very large. During the
week under consideration there has been
still further activity and arrangements
have been entered into and partially per-
feCted for meeting the demands of trade
which, this year, are expected to be a great
deal more extensive than ever before.
Our dealers have, in many instances in an
ticipatiOn of the increased trade, more
than doubled their arrangements of
last year for the receipt of fruits. Car
loads of green fruits will arrive daily.
Quotations in regard to fruits have had
general overhauling. Choice colored Val
encias (420) $3.50 TO SIS per case; choice
to fancy Messina $3.50 to 81 per box.
Floridas all gone. CALIFORNIA; will be
here soon. Lemons are a little lower.
Choice to fancy Messina and Palermo,
$3.50 to 81 per box. Apples, small GENT
tons $3.50 per Dbl, large Genitons, 81
per Dbl. Michigan apples will
be here soon. Select oysters 40c, standard
SOC. California pears S. per box. Figs
l8c per pound. Dates, New Arabian
IN trails 10c, Golden in
skins. SC. Cranberries, choice bell and
bugls SIS per barrel. Choice southern
sweet potatoes 81 per barrel. Maple
sugar, choice new Vermont, in bricks and
cakes, 1213c per pound. Duffy's New
York cider, $3.50 per barrel; 26c per gal
Ion in casks. Very fine Kentucky cider,
SIS per barrel; half barrels, $3.50. Pea
nuts,white Virginia hand picked, 1Oc per ID.
Teragona almonds, 1Sc. New Naples wal
mats, 19c. New French walnuts, 13c.
New Brazil nuts, 12c. New Sicily
tilberts, lac. New Baraco filberts, lac.
Pecans, 12c.
DRESSED HoGs-The season has about
ended for this product and the mar
ket is fairly we'll supplied.
The following are the quo
tations for hogs, veal and mutton:
$797.25 on range of 100 pounds;
veal 10Q12c; mutton, city dressed,
8@81ac; country dressed, 607c; beef sides,
city dressed, 1928 to IS; country dressed,
Sc to 81.
LIVE HoGs-None of consequence are
coming in, and they are held at 81 to 6.
CATTLE-The supply of cattle is equal
to the demand, and what is also important,
they are of good quality. Much of the
supply comes from Montana, and the
quality seems to be very superior. 1t is re-
ported that there are $4,000 cattle to come
through pretty soon. Quotations have not
changed much and are as follows: Choice
steers, $4.5O@5; fair to good, S3.75@4.25;
good mixed, $3.25@3.5O; scalawags, $3.50
as; mich COWS, $40965; veal calves, Sc
G7 per 100 pounds.
SHEEP are not arriving in anv
large quantities and prices
are steady. The demand is
pretty well supplied, however, and prices
are pretty firm at $4.5O@$5.25.
OIL-Raw oil, one barrel, SEC per gallon.
in car lots, 53c; five barrels, 55c; ten bar
rels, SAC. Boiled, Sc per gallon extra /;
Linseed meal, $21 in car lots, per ton; $2a
single ton.
CRANBKRRIEs are out of the market.
BUTTER is attracting, at the present time,
good degree of attention. Nothing but
the best and poorest are selling and that
at from 25c to 30c, while the poorest goes
for from 10c to 12c. The condition of the
market is such that if the medium and bet
ter grades are forced on the market they
they would have to go at the prices of the
poorest butter. There is no end to the poor
butter. Everybody has large quantities
of it, and the &c neral i'm
preston is that nine tenths of the butter
on hand will have to be closed out at from
10 to lie, and probably some at even lower
figures than that. Quotations will be found
under the head of commission dealers.
EGGS are coming in plenty, and the
commission men are trying to hold the
price up, but it looks as though they would
be unable to do it, and that prices are