Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
THE MARKET BASKET.
FruIt Sell ing Mt Reasonable Figures-Abun.
dance of Grapes at Low Rates-veze-
table Crops Better Abrond
Thnu at Home.


Than at Home.
In fruit lines grapes have the field, and are
at their lowest price for the season. With 10
pound baskets of grapes selling at Is cents in
jobbing way it cannot be said that fruit is
dear. Apples are also in bountiful supply and
markets give signs of weakness. Our fruit
supplies are mainly from the West. Through
out the region of which Pittsburg is the center
there is practically no fruit this season, and if
our country was not very big, embracing all
climates, there would be famine OF fruit.
Crops in the Western States and parricu-
larry on the Pacific slope, have been very
good this season, and from that direction
our supply is now coming. The vegetable
crop as well as the fruit crop is hight in the
vicinity of Pittsburg this season, and prices
are much above the average. The cost of po-
tatoes is more than double what it has been
for years at this time, and prospects are for
still higher prices. In the line of ocean
products prices are the same as week ago.
Supply of oysters and Western fish is barely
equal to demand. Staple meats rarely change,
no matter what the ups and downs of live stock
may be. and our Quotations in this line stand as
they lave been for months past.
Following are the latest quotations of market
basket materials as furnished by retail dealers:
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 l5 to 2Oc; chuck roast.
10 to l2c; best round steaks l213 to l5c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to 50cper pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, &c a pound; calf
ivers 25 to 35c apiece: corned beef from l0to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands 10c;
roast l215 to l5c; cuslets, 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg Of mutton, hind quarter, Of prime
quality, brings l21ac; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, sc per pound.
Garden STUFF.
Cabbage, to 1Oc; potatoes. zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, l5c quarter peck; bananas. 10 to 2Oc
a dozen: carrots, SC bunch; lemons, 80 to 40c
per dozen; oranges, so to 6Oc; caullfower, Is to
25c head: lettuce, DC per bunch; beets,
for SC: beans. 2Oc half peck; apples, Is to
zoe quarter peck; celery. &c a bunch; roasting
ears, 20 to Csc dozen; Lima beans. Csc quart;
eggplant 10 to l5c apiece; squash. SC apiece;
pie pumpkins. 10 to 25c; watermelons. 20 to 4Oc
apiece; cantaloups. 10 to Zoe apiece; German
prunes 35c a dozen; Delaware and Niagara
grapes, Sc pound; Concord grapes, SC
pound.
Choice creamery butter, SOC. Good country
butter, l5 to zoe. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 3oc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is Sc to 81 20
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 co.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 121fc;
Callfornla Salmon- Soc per pound; Wn1Ie nsh,
l21zc; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to Soc pound; blue fish, 15c; halibut
20c: rock bass 25c; black bass, 15c; lake trout,
1215c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle, 70 to 20c.
Oysters: N Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon: soft shell crabs 81 % 20 81 SO
per dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 so per dozen; Mermets, 81 Is
per dozen; Brides, 81 Is per dozen; yellow and
white. 75c per dozen; Bennetts. 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties SOC apiece; carnations. Soc per dozen;
gladiolus, Soc per dozen; hydrangea, 30c apiece:
asters, Soc per dozen; dahlias, SOC per dozen.