Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-06
THE MARKET BASKET.
Creamery Butter Weak - Western Fish
scarce-Tomatocs Remarkably High
Prices of Staples but Little
Chauged-Trade Brisk.


Chnuged-Trade Brisk.
At the fruit and vegetable stalls of Diamond
market an improved trade is reported for the
week past. The pilgrims to mountain and sea-
shore are returning, and the effect is appal ent
in increasing demand for market basket Filing.
There are few changes in prices since last Sat-
urday. Cool nights have put chill on market
gardens in this vicinity. and the yield of toma-
toes has been very much diminished. Price
of tomatoes has doubled within q week. A year
ago at this time tomatoes were drug at 25c a
hushel; Now they are firm at 81 50 bushel.
In the lines of butter, eggs and poultry the
week has developed no new features.
In jobbing way creamery butter is easier
than at the beginning of the week. The sharp
advance q week or two ago brought oleo to the
front, and hence the arrest of the upward
movement of genuine butter. Florists report
quiet week. with prices unchanged. There is
Still a scarcity of Western fish. Dealers report
that it is impossible to need demand. Prices
are unchanged. Staple meats move along in
the old ruts unaffected by the ups and downs of
live stock. Tenderloins and rib roasts are sold
at the same figures as when beeves were nearly
double their present price.
Following are the latest retail quotations Of
market basket filling:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts of tenderloin 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 roast,
10 to l2c; best round steaks. l21 to I5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC pair; beef
kidneys, 10c apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
livers 5 to 35c apiece: corned beef from lotto l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands 10c;
roast, l25 to 15c; outlets, 20c per pound; spring
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l211c; fore quarter, SC; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets. sc per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, s to 10c; potatoes. zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, l5c quarter peck; bananas, Is to 20c
dozen; carrots, &c bunch; lemons, 81 to 4Oc
per dozen; oranges, 35 to Soc; caullfower, Is to
35c head; lettuce, SC per bunch: beets, &c per
bunch, S5c per dozen: cucumbers, SC apiece, 8
for 25c: beans. 35c half peck; apples,
20c quarter peck; huckleberries, l5c quart;
celery, SC bunch; roasting ears, 90 to Csc doz.
eggplant, 10. to l5c apiece; squash. SC apiece;
pie pumpkins. 10 to Soc; watermelons. 20 to 40c
apiece; cautaloups, 10 to Csc apiece; California
apricots and peaches, 35 to Soc dozen; German
prunes, 35c a dozen; Delaware and Niagara
grapes, l5c a pound, 2 for Csc; Concord grapes,
10c pound
butter, Is to 20c Fancy pound rolls, 80 to 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is Soc to 81 20
per pair; ducks, Goo to 81 90.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to l21c;
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
l21zc; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to 3oc pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut,
20c; rock bass, Csc; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
1213c; HOLSTERS, 20c: green turtle, 20 to 25c.
Oysters: n. Y. counts, 81 rs per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; soft shell crabs, 81 Is to 81 so
per dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 Is per dozen; Mermets, 81 Is
per dozen; Brides, 81 Is per dozen; yellow and
white, 75c per dozen; Bennetts. 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties, Csc apiece; carnations. soc per dozen;
lilium auratum. 20c apiece; gladislus, 81 dozen;
hydrangea, 20c apiece.