Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-28
THE MARKET BASKET.
Fruits and Vegetables Grow Scarcer
and Prices are Higher.
BUTTER AND POULTRY ADVANCING
Storms on the Coast Curtail the Fish and
Oyster Supply.
PEACHES SCARCE AND GRAPES PLENTY
UTTER AND POULTRY ADVANCING
PEACHES SCARCE AND GRAPES PLENTY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, September q, l6S9.

OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH
FRIDAY, September q, l6S9
There are no marked changes in prices OF
market basket materials since last Satur-
day. Tomatoes are a shade higher ana
peaches are growing scarce. The Varleues
of fruits are narrowing down, until grapes
and apples will soon have the field. Inese'
with tropical fruits. will be alone IN their
glory within the next few weeks. Peacnes
are still on the market in limited quantity;
but the quality is none OF the oest' anu
nrices are high. Dealers in fruits and vegeta-
bios rpnort trade slow for the week, and attri-
butte it to the fact that prices are on the up
ward drift.
Poultry Exceptionally Scarce.
There is an unusual scarcity of poultry, and
prices in this line are moving up higher Our
markets are mainly dependent on Chicago
for poultry supplies In this section the crop
was never scareer, and Thanksgiving and
Christmas turkeys would be out of reach of the
average purse If we were dependent on the
nearby poultry crop. 4 peddler who pays
weekly visits TO markets, and traverses a
region of country so miles west of Pittsburg,
reports that in Is years experience he has not
known poultry as scarce in this section as it is
this fall.
supplies in tins line will no doubt be more ex-
pensive than they were week ago.
Fish and Oysters Wanted.
The fish supply has been far below demand
for a week or two past Storms along the coast
have curtailed supplies, and our dealers here
have not been able to meet demands.
Baltimore oysters have also been in scant
supply for a number of days. One OF the leao-
ing dealers said to-day: 1--WE have not been aDle
1olF n r.
ders. In the early part of the week we were
almost bare of stock. There were not enough
choice oysters ana fish IN the Pittsburg market
on Monday to supply one nrst-class restauTanI
Ana even yet we cannot. by our utmost en-
deavor get half enough stock to meet the de-
mands of Ou customers.
Following are retail prices of market basket
materials as furnished by leading dealers:
Meats.
The best cuts of Jenderloin steak range
from 20 TO 25c, with last figure for very
fancy. which are very often better
than the 20c article; sirloIn, best cuts, from is
to 20c; standing RIB roast, from 10 to zoe; chuck
Ioast. 10 to l2c; best rouId steaks, l5c; boiling
beef, to Sc; sweet breads 20 to 50c per pair;
beef kidneys. lOe apiece; beef liver, &c pound;
calf livers, 25c apiece; corned beef from to lOc
per pc und- Veal for stewing commands lOc;
roast l212 to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
15c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l21ac; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, 10ci glDleCS, &C per pOunu-
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes. 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 25c per half peck; egg plants 10 to 25c toma
toes 25c per half peck; cabbage 5to l0c; bananas,
2Oto 25c a dozen; carrots, SC bunch; lemons, Is
to 35c per dozen; oranges, Soc; lettuce, SC per
bunch, for sc: radishes, sc per bunch;
cucumbers, for sc; beets, for lOc; caulifowers,
Is to 35c head; string beans, 20c a half peck;
golden wax beans, 25e half peck; new South
ern onions, 25c a half peck: new Spanish
onions. 5 to lOc each; squashes, to S5c;
peas, 20c per quarter peck; Catawbas, to Sc;
Delaware grapes, to 10c; Concord grapes, to
&c per pound: plums, l5c quart; peaches. 25
to SOC per quarter peck; pineapples, 70 to S5c.
Butter. Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, Sc. Good country
butter. sc. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 22c.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to
81 25 per pair. Turkeys, zoe per pound Prairie
chickens, 81 90 pair: ducks, 81 90 to 81 25 per
pair; reed birds. 81 0O per dozen; jacksnipes,
& so per dozen.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon, l215c; Cali
fornia salmon, 4Oc pound; white fish, 12115c; her.
ring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel, SOC
to S5c pound; sea salmon, 4Oc pound;
blue fish, 25 to 30c; perch. l0c; halibut 25c;
rock bass, SOC; black bass 20c: lake trout 121Sc;
lob l0bsters 25c; &C. green sea turtle 2sc; mackerel,
& % per gallon; clans, 81 25 per gallon; scol-
lops, SOC a quart; frogs, 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozeni devil crabs, Sc
per dozen.
La France roses, 81 25@l so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 25 per dozen; Perles 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25
per dozen; American Beauty, 25c apiece; Mer-
Maiden Hair fern, SOC per doz fronds; gladiolus
Soc per dozen; ASters SOC per dozen.