, 1883-09-06
Yours Faithfully,
"WATER WoRKs.
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT.

Our local markets have not undergone
any violent changes since our last report
Trade has been good, and the general
tendency has been toward firmness.
HOPS-The hop picking season will
open next week. At least 1000 Indians
have arrived from Neah Bay. Barclay
Sound and British Columbia during the
past week to assist i'll the picking, aud
probably thousand have come across
the mountains on horseback, via the
SnOqualmie Pass, to assist the hop
growers in Sguak and White River Val
leys in caring for their crops. The pros
poets indicate about two thirds crop.
In some localities hop picking will not
commence for two or three weeks yet
The crop all over the Union has been a
partial failure this year, and there is as
much, If not more reason for expecting
good prices this season than there was
last.
FLOUR is unchanged, but markets
firm. No change from last weeks quo
tatiOns.
WOOL-Buyers are Offering from 16
to II cents per pound. \ greater por-
ton of this years crop has been bought
at figures ranging from 16 to Is cents.
OATS-Market at stand still. job
bers selling at from $40 to $42 per ton.
BACON-Firm; no changes noted.
HAMS-Very scarce ang high. For a
long time bacon and hams were sold at
the same fgnres. The consequence was
that the hams were all bought up, in
preference to the side meat, and owing
to the low price of lard, California pack
ars did not kill their hogs, and conse-
quently hams are scarce and high. We
quote 1s1s to 20 cents per pound
LARD-Owins to the manipulations
of the bears in New York, the lard mar
ket has been weakened, and good lard is
quoted at 10 cents per pound.
BUTTER-Market firm and advanc-
ing, owing to the dry weather and in
creased consumption. Still further ad-
vances may be expected. The ordinary
retail price is so cents for a o-pound
roll.
EGGS-Fresh bring steadily BIZ cts.
per dozen, and in some instances dealers
have paid during the past week as high
as 40 cents per dozen. One local firm
imported 1900 dozen from the east, but
owing to the great loss, the chances are
the experiment will not again be tried
very soon.
CHICKENS-Marke firm, and but
few fowls are finding their way to mar
ket. No change in quotations.
POTATOES-Owing to the over
crowded condition of the Mexico's
freight room, she brought but few po-
tatoes from California, which tended to
brace up the market and advance the
price, and while new potatoes in San
Francisco were selling at from 80 to 80
cents per hundred, they have brought
here, and been firm, at IL cents per
pound. The California market is de-
moralized, and on the arrival of the
Elder, on which is large supplies, the
price will greatly decline.
HAY-New hay is in good demand.
Owing tolack OF transportation facili-
ties, that which finds its way to market
is sought at from $51 to 80 per ton on
the wharf.
VEGETABLES are now offered IN
abundance and variety to please all.
Potatoes never were dryer, mealier and
finer than this year. The green corn
product is all that could be desired.
Tomatoes, caulifiower, cabbage, onions,
beets, turnips, beans, carrots, radishes,
peas, squashes, cucumbers, etc, can be
bought any and every day in quantity
to suit. Prices, compared with other
years, are well up, though, and the de-
mand promises tie be yet in excess of the
supply, occasioned partly by the half
drought through which we are passing,
but principally by the great influx of
immigrants, the railroad builders and
transient residents.
FRUIT-The foreign fruit in mar
ket includes generous supplies of melons,
peaches, grapes, oranges, bananas,
pears, and the home fruit, plums, ap-
pies. blackberries, etc. Owing to more
frequent and more speedy communica-
ton with California the market has
never before been so well supplied with
fruit as this year.