Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-09
ORR MARKETS.,

| SEATTLE. Feb. :.
The general tendency of the lo,s
markets for the past week has bee
firm.
| FLOUR is very firm. and We ouo,.
Extra, per barrel, at frn.n $3.50 TO 81. \
and an advance Is liable TO take plac
again q. any time. The high price .
flour Is accounted for bv the fac, tia
spectators have bought Up the whsa
crop and made corner thereon.
OATS are firm and in good demand
80 Per ton has been paid fo- first elias
quality.
BUTTER-Country made IA scs rce
and California butter is generally foun,
IN the markets Prices vary from 50 4
SIX per pound.
| EGGS have advanced a little and ar
scarce. Joooers are Lying from 40 I,
Is cents per dozen.
CHICKENS - The surnlus cb;cko,
crop has been pretty welt bought I'D b,
| Cnlnau'Ha. IN order TO feast during tn j
hold =. Dealers have been PAWN.
from ~ o TO SIS per dozen for chicken
anc retaiied them al Is cents each
Cnlckens should bs sold BY the und
as there IS no Justice IN one farmer sell
| Ing nice, fat fowls for the same pric,
that his nel4soor gets for poor, miser
able. half-starved ones.
| POTATOES-One of the most difficpl
things OF the present time is to get pooS
potatoes. Years ago this difficulty wa:
not encountered. Whether or not the
new varieties introduced during the
past few years have been of inferio,
KIND We cannot say, but it does seem as
If they have been. Fifteen and twenty
years ago good, sound, mealy, whole.
some potatoes we're the rule. Now they
are the exception. Perhaps some of oul
readers can give a reason for this
change to the worse. We note a decline
of cents q bushel since our last report,
the going rate now being 35(diO cents
per busbel. Receipts are free, and
there are no signs of straitened market
during the present crop year.
HAf-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. Tbs logging camps aions have
taken more hay during the past twelve
months than daring the previous TWEEN
ty-four, while the demand IN the towns
on the Sound is at lea 80 per cent.
greater than i'll 1881. Besides these
calls the railroad builders have taken a
great deal, where they took none n wear
ago. Last year this time hay was selling
at $l2 TO Sl4 a ton, ana was dull at that.
Three months ago SO and SIG were the
highest prices paid. Now SlS is the
lowest. for baied timothy, on the farm,
Col. Squire selling four car loads at that
price during the past week. The cold
weather of the pact month has stiffened
up prices remarkably. 1t does seem as
If $50 and perhaps S22 will have to be
pad before summer, as there is bat lit
tie hay Ii the country. Those prices
already prevail on the Columbia River,
and nay cannot be brought here from
California AZ profit for less.
ONIONS have slightly advanced. and
We quote q to "a per pound.
APPLES-No change.
BEEF. The wholesale price of beef
has advanced from to 8 cents per
pound, and is firm at that figure, by the
quarter. Beef on foot has advanced
from "A cents to ) cents per pound.
PORK has also advanced, aud We
quote neat. $685. cents; pork on foot,
8 to 615 cents.
MUTTON has also gone up figure,
and butchers are paying from 914 to 10
cents neat, and ~ to 5 cents On foot.
In the retail markets beef ranges from
10 to Is cents per pound. according to
quality; pork from 10 to 12115, and NUT
ton 10 to l2l5 cents.
LUMBER market unchanged.