Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-21
AS TO TABLE VIANDS.
A General Upward Drift in Fruit
and Vegetable Lines.
BUTTER AND POULTRXsIERY FIRM.
Melons Ont, Peaches Nearing the End,
Grapes Abounding.
SUPPLY OF FISH BELOW THE DEMAND
AND POULTRY,IERY FIRM.
SUPPLY OF FISH BELOW THE DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH 1dso

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
FRIDAY, September 20 1899.
Materials for the market basket have un-
dergone very few changes since last oatur-
day. The weather has not been favorable
the past few days to active markets al
fruit and vegetable stalls. Dealers COM
plain that trade has been slow all the week,
but have large hopes of a bright Saturday.
There is a general upward DRIFT OF prices In
fruit and vegetable lines, but not sufficient
to make any decided changes in retail markets.
Potatoes and tomatoes are higher in a jobbing
way.
Peaches Still Scarce.
Choice peaches are not to be had and their
daY is practically over for this season Melons
are among the things that were. Grapes are
plenty and a shade lower in price
The supply of poultry is scarcely up to the
demand and markets are growing frmer.
Throughout this section poultry is reported
unusually scarce this fall. Our dealers are
mainly dependent on the far West for supplies
in this line.
Butter is on the advance. The price of
creamery was advanced 21Sc at Elgin Monday
and &c the previous week.
Staple meats change not Prime beeves were
sold at East Liberty this week by the carload
for 41zc, a price PIC below what the same would
have brought about year ago. There is no
change in the price of fancy cuts OF beef,
though the rough portions are some lower.
Everybody Wants Fish.
1t has been next to impossible to meet the
demand for fish since the great storms visited
the Eastern shores some ten days ago. lead
ing dealer reported to-day that he could sell
double the quantity he has been able to procure
in some lines of ocean products. Retail prices
have stiffened up little, but the heavy ao-
vance has been to the wholesaler, who must
nav increased rates at the sources of supply in
order to secure the goods.
Following are the retail prices of materials
for Saturdays market basket as furnished by
leading dealers:
The best cuts of tenderloin steak range
from 20 to 25c with last figure for very
fancy. which are very often no better
than the zoe article; sirloln, best cuts, from IS
to 2Oc; standing RIB roast, from l5 to 20c; chuck
loast. 10 to l2c; best rouEd steaks, l5c; boiling
beef, to SC; sweet breads, 20 to Soc per pair:
beef kidneys. lOc apiece: beef liver. Sc a pound;
calf liverS, Csc apiece; corned beef from to l0c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l215 to l5c; cuSlets 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l211c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes 15c per half peck; Jersey sweet pota-
toes 25c per half peck egg plants 10 to 25c; toma
toes zoe per half peck; cabbage to 10c; bananas,
20 to Csc dozen; carrots sc bunch; lemons, Is
to 35c per dozen; oranges, 5Oci lettuce, &c per
bunch, 6 for 25c; radishes, Sc per bunch;
cucumbers, for &c; beets, 8 for 10c caulifowers,
Is to S5c a head; string beans, 20c half peck:
golden wax beans, 20c a half peck; new South
ern onions Z5c a half peck: new Spanish
4 f0 < IN
peas, 2Oc per quarter peck; watermelons, l5 to
Soc; cantaloups, 10 to 25c; huckleberries, l5c
quart; Concord grapes, to &c per pound;
plums, l5c quart; peaches, Is to Soc per quar-
ter peck; pineapples, 20 to Soc.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, SOc Good country
butter, SOC. Fancy pound rolls, 35c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is &C.
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to
81 . per pair. Turkeys, zoe per pound. Prairie
pair; reed birds, 81 90 per dozen; jacksnipes,
s. SO per dozen
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 1215c; Cali
fornia salmon, 40c pound; white fish, 121zc; her
ring, pounds for &c; Spanish mackerel 3Oc
to 35c a pound: sea salmon, 40c a pound
blue fish, 25 to Soc; perch. l0c: halibut Csc;
rock bass, Soc; black bass 20c: lake trout l21Sc;
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle. Csc; mackerel,
20c small, 40e large. Oysters: n. Y. counts,
81 20 per gallon; clans, 81 .25 per gallon; scol-
lops, SOC quart; frogs, 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, Sc
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses 81 25@I so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 % per dozen; Perles 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 25
per dozen; American Beauty, 25c apiece: Mer-
NETS, 81 w per oozen; carnauons Soc dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, Soc per doz. fronds: pladiolus'
SOC per dozen; Asters, Soc per Dozen