Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-07
AS TO TABLE VIANDS.
Retail Prices for Saturdays Market
Basket Materials.
GAME AND POULTRY NOT so STEEP.
The Demand for Ocean Products Keeps Pace
With Supply.
FLOWERS STEADILY MOVING UPWARD
OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
Friday. December 6. lSS9.

OFF1GM OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, December 6 1889.
Market basket filing has undergone few
changes since last Saturday. At the Dia-
mond market stalls trade is reported quiet
for the past week in fruit and vegetable
lines.
Home raised cucumbers, onions and
mushrooms are to be had, but prices will
make serious impression upon the ordi-
nary purse.
Florida oranges are now in good supply
and quality shows a decided improvement
on receipts of week or two ago.
Since Thanksgiving times there has been
lull in poultry demand and prices are a
shade lower. The Christmas turkey however,
promises to be more expensive than that for
Thanksgiving, as nearby crop is scarcer than
it has been for many years.
Eggs still in Great Demand.
Fresh laid eggs are unusually scarce, and a
sure shot article in this line brings the outside
quotations. Game is abundant and cheap.
Quail and rabbits are not often as low as they
have been in the past week or two. The
farmers have sold as low as IS cents per dozen,
and at this figure are cheaper than beef. Game
has been selling lower at Pittsburg the past
week than at Chicago or St LOUIS. Our soft
weather has had depressing influence on game
and poultry.
As to ocean fruits demand is equal to supply.
The catch of fresh fish is near its end for this
season, and the time for the frozen article is at
hand. The oyster crop is reported below aver.
age and Baltimore dealers hold their stock
very firm Large quantities are going to Eu-
rope and our dealers here report that choice
stock brings no better prices at Pittsburg than
at Baltimore.
The Boom In Flowers.
In floral lines prices have taken sharp turn
upward the past week, as our quotations will
disclose. The upward drift is expected to con-
tinue until Christmas and after from ali former
experiences. Society events are making heavy
demands on flowers. and, Notwithstanding ad-
vance in prices the goods are going out so freely
that the capacity of florists to deliver goods is
fully tested. The supply on Christmas week
has not for many years been up to demand.
Following are the retail prices of market bas-
ket materials as furnished by leading dealers:
Meats.
The best cuts of uenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloIn, best cuts, from Is to 1Sc;
standing rib roast, from Is to Zoe; chuck
loast 10 to I2c; best rouEd steaks, I5c; boiling
beef. 5 to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to soc per pair;
beef kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, sc pound;
calf ivers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to lOc
per pound. Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast l2Jk to 15c; outlets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 TO l2c; hind quarters,
15c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings 1211Sc; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes, 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes, ,25e per half peck cabbage, 5to 10c bananas,
2Oto Csc dozen; carrots, Sc bunch; lemons, Is
SC per bunch, for &c; beets, for 1Oc;
string beans, 35c a half peck: onions, 20
to 35c a half peck; Spanish onions. 5 to
1Oc each; pie pumpkins, 10 to 35c, according
per pound; turnips, z0c per half peck; cram
berries, l5c a quart; cucumbers, SOC apiece;
mushrooms, 81 a pound.
Butter. Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, s5c. Good country
butter. S5c. Fancy pound rolls, 40c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 40c
The range for dressed chickens is soc to
chickens, 81 90 a pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 % per
pair; partridges, S6 a dozen; squirrels, Csc
pair; rabbits, SOC pair; pheasanJs. 81 25 pair;
pigeons, SOC pair; geese, 75c to 81 Is apiece.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon, I216c; Cali
fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white fish,
127zc; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap
pers, Is to 2Oc per pound; Spanish mackerel SOC
TO 35c a pound; sea salmon, 4Oc a pound;
blue fish, % to SOC; perch. l0c; halibut, 25c;
rock bass soc; black bass 20c: lake trout 1215c;
HOLSTERS, Csc; green sea turtle. 2Sc; mackerel,
zoe small 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 70 per gallQpf clans. 81 % per gallon; scol-
lops SOC 8 quart; frogs 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen. -
Flowers.
La France roses, So 90 per dozen; Bride roses,
81 so per dozen; Perles 81 so per dozen; De Watt
vile roses, s. so per dozen; Papa Gontier roses,
81 25 per dozen; Niphetos, 81 so per dozen; Ben
netts, 50 so per dozen; American Beauty, $40
per dozen; Mermets, S2 so per dozen; carDa-
mons, Soc dozen; Maiden Hair fern Soc per
dozen fronds; lily of the valley, 81 per dozen;
chrysanthemums, 81 to $S per dozen; violets
81 30 to 81 dozen; hyacinths, 81 dozen.