Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-14
THE MARKET BASKET.
Roasts and Tenderloins Sold at the
Same Old Rates
In SPITE OF REDUCED LIVE STOCK.
Soft Weather Has a Depressing Effect on
Game and Poultry.
DEMAND FOR FLOWERS ExCELLEKT
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURG DISPATCH, I
FRIDAY. December Is, 1889.

FRIDAY. December Is, 1889.
There are few changes worthy of note in
market basket materials for the week past
Staple meats move along in the old ruts.
Choice cuts bring the same old prices, not
withstanding the fact that cattle and hogs
are fully 2e per pound lower than they were
year ago.
The drop in live stock so far has been OF
littl. benefit to the consumer. Tenderloins
and choice roasts are the same price now,
when beeves are selling at 81 30, as when
they brought S6 so per hundred. To be sure,
hides, offals and boiling meat are all reduced,
but choice cuts are held at the same old fig
ures, If butchers had any profits a year ago,
they should be reaping handsome dlVldenos
now.
Good Fish Weather.
In the line Of ocean products weather is
favorable to supply. The time is here for
frozen fish, and dealers are for the most part
furnishing the frozen article. Soft weather,
however enables the fishermen on the lakes to
secure stock later in the season shan usual, and
fresh fish are still to be had.
At the Diamond Market vegetable stalls a
quiet weeks trade is reported Tropical fruits
are in supply beyond demand Florida
oranges have not been so low for years at this
time as they now.
A leading dealer in vegetables and fruit re-
ports that pumpkins are in very poor demand
Said he; i do not know what has come over
people in this city, as there is no longer any
hankering for pumpkin pie. There is nothing
in the pie line as delicious or healthy, but some
how our customers do not seem TO call for
pumpkins of late" Soft weather the past week
has had depressing influence on game and
poultry. In both lines markets are weak
Butter Moving Upward
The butter movement is upward. Choice
creamery butter is firm at quotations. But
terine is handled to the extent Of three or four
carloads weekly in Pittsburg, and the result is
slow markets for country butter. 1t will re-
quire close inspection to discover the differ
ence between the spurious and genuine in but
ter lines. The housewife who pays SOC to 35c
per pound for butter which is not butter will
be swlndled to the extent of l5c TO zoe per
pound. II she attempts to cook with the spur1-
Gus article discovery will be made.
Florists report trade very lively at the ad-
vanced prices. Society is evidently getting IN
its work, and from now on till after the New
Year the demand tor floral beauties promises
TO absorb all that our florists will be able to
furnish During Christmas week supply has
not been up to demand for years past.
Following are prices of market basket filling
as furnished by leading retail dealers:
lIests.
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from % to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloIn, best cuts, from Is to lsc;
standing rib roast from Is to 2Oc; chuck
roast 10 TO 12c; best round steaks. l5c; boiling
beef, 5 to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pair;
beef kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver. SC pound;
calf livers, 25e apiece; corned beef from to lOc
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l211z to l5c cuslets zoe per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l21zc; fore quarter, Sci lOin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit,
Potatoes, I5c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 25c per half peck; cabbage, 5to 10c; bananas
20 to 25c dozen; carrots, Sc bunch; lemons, 25
TO 35c per dozen; oranges, 25 TO 40c; lettuce
&c per bunch s for 25c: beets, for lOc;
string beans. S5c a half peck; onions, 20
to S5c q half peck: Spanish onions. 5 to
lOc each; pie pumpkins 10 to 35c, according
to size; Malaga grapes, 25c per pound; turnips,
Z0c per half peck; cranberries, 15c a quart;
eucumbers, Soc apiece: mushrooms, 81 pound.
Burter. EGGS and Poulrry.
Choice creamery butter, 35c. Good country
butter. S5c. Fancy pound rolls, z0c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 40c.
The range for dressed chickens is SOC to
81 90 per pair. Turkeys, lSc per pound. Prairie
chickens, 81 90 a pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 25 per
pair; rabbits. 3Oc pair; pheasants, 81 25 a pairs
pigeons, SOC pair; geese, 75c to 81 p apiece.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon, 1217c; Cali
fornia salmon 4Oc per pound; white fish,
l21Sc; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap
pers, Is to 2Oc per pound; Spanish mackerel SOC
TO Csc a pound; sea salmon, 40e a pound;
blue fish, 25 to SOC; perch. lOc; halibut 26c;
rock bass, soc; black bass, 2Oc: lake trout l21c;
HOLSTERS, Csc: green sea turtle, 2Sc; mackerel,
zoe small 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 20 per gallon; clans, 81 . per gallon; scol-
lops, Soc a quart; frogs, g 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs S5c
per dozen
Flowers.
La France roses, So 90 per dozen: Bride roses,
e so per dozen; Perles 81 SO per dozen; De Watt
vile roses, 81 so per dozen; Papa Gontier roses,
81 25 per dozen; Niphetos, 81 so per dozen; Ben
netts, 81 so per dozen; American Beauty, $40
per dozen; Mermets, . 50 per oozen; carna-
uons Soc a dozen; Maiden Hair fern, Soc per
dozen fronds; lily of the valley, 81 per dozen;
81 so to 81 dozen; hyacinths, 81 a dozen.