Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-20
THE MARKET BASKET.
Trn de in Fruit and Vegetables Rather Dull
Pears and Other California Products
Very Enthusiastically of Fish

Prices of Staplas.
The week past has developed few new feat
| ures in the line OF market basket filling. At
| the Diamond market fruit and vegetable stalls
| trade is reported slow for some days past.
| Grapes are the mainstay in fruit lines. Quality
| is all that could be desired and prices are rea-
sonable. California fruits are in good supply,
| but price is steep. With Bartlett pears at SOC
| a dozen, the average citizen can hardly afford
| to indulge. In the line of dairy products job
| bing prices have weakened during the week
past. but not enough to affect retail prices.
Creamery butter of the very best quality is
whoesaling at 25 to 26c per pound. As there
| are about six carloads of oleomargarine coming
to our market every week. it is highly probable
that multitude of consumers are spreading
their bread and biscuits with limitations of but
ter. Where ignorance is bliss it were folly to
be WISE"
possible for the past week or two to meet de-
mand for their goods. A leading operator IN
this line reported yesterday that his whole sup
ply of oysters was exhausted at 10 o'clock in the
morning, though he had laid in literally in ex-
pecta.ion of heavy demand.
Fish supplies also have been curtailed of late,
owing to storms on the Eastern coast Western
fish are beginning to come in more freely, and
full supply is expected by another week. Flor
lists report good week, with prices unchanged.
The return of the pilgrims to mountain and sea-
shore has perceptibly helped trade in floral lines.
Following are latest quotations in the line of
market-basket materials:
staple Menfs.
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 10 to Zoe; chuck roast.
10 to 12c; best rouEd steaks. 1211 to I5c boiling
beef to SC; sweet 20 to SOC per pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, sc pound; calf
livers % to 35c apiece; corned beef from 10 l2c
per pound Veal for stewing commands 10c;
roast, 121a to 15c; Guile ts 20c per pound; spring
L. hft,l
l5c. A leg Of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l212c; fore quarter, SC; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, to 10c; potatoes. zoe per half peck;
tomatoes 10c quarter peck; bananas, l5 to 2Oc
a dozen: carrots &c 4 bunch; lemons, 80 to 40c
per dozen; oranges. so to 6Oc; caulIfower, 15 to
25c head; lettuce, &C per bunch: beets,
&c per bunch, 35c per dozen; cucumbers, 2
for DC: beans, 20c half peck; apples, Is to
2Oc quarter peck; celery, &c a bunch; roasting
ears, 20 to 25c dozen; Lima beans, 25c quart;
eggplant, 10 to 15c apiece; squash. sc apiece;
pie pumpkins 10 to 25c; watermelons. 20 TO 4Oc
apiece; can1alouPs. 10 G TO zoe apiece; California
prunes, 35c dozen; Delaware and Niagara
grapes, l5c pound, 2 for Csc; Concord grapes.
SC pound.
butter. l5 to zoe. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to Soc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is soc to 81 20
per pair: ducks, 60c to 81 90.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 12]dc;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
l219c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to Soc pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut,
zoe: rock bass, 25c; black bass, l5c; lake trout
l212c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to &c
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 7o per gallon; clans
81 % per gallon: soft shell Gratis, 81 25 to 81 80
per dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 so per dozen; Mermets, 81 %
per dozen; Brides, 81 25 per dozen; yellow and
white. 75c per dozen; Bennetts 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties, 25c apiece; carnations, Soc per dozen;
lilium auratum, 25c apiece; gladiolus, SOC per
dozen; hydrangea, 20c apiece: asters, soc per
dozen; dahlias, soc per dozen.