Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-23
TRADE RETROSPECTS.
A Week of Unusual Activity in Gen.
eral Produce Lines.
GOOD STOCK BRINGS GOOD PRICES.
Straws Showing That Pittsburg Prospers
Beyond Other
TRADE CENTERS BOTH EAST AND WEST
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURG DISPATCH,
SATURDAY. June 2l. 1880. }

SATURDAY. June II, loSV.
The week past has been one of great ac'
tivity in general produce lines, and volume
of trade has seldom been as large. Though
receipts of berries have been large, markets
have at no time been glutted with good
stock as in former seasons. Demand has
been fully up to supply for choice fruit.
In vegetable lines, cabbage and tomatoes
show downward drift the past week, but
new potatoes are very firm at prices of a
week ago. In fact it has been impossible
to secure all the stock in this line that was
needed for the local trade. Prices are ad-
vanced at sources of supply 25 cents
per barrel, but dealers here have
made no change. The time is now
close at hand when home grown
cabbage. tomatoes and potatoes will be on the
market. A Neville Island gardener reports
that he will have new cabbage for sale next
week. Homegrown potatoes will be due about
July 4, but this season is hardly up to time in
vegetable lines, owing to backward spring.
1t is doubtful if there has been in any other
city of the land as active produce market or
as high prices the past week or two as in Pitts
burg. In a visit to city OF Ohio. with popu-
lation of 1000, last week, it was ascertained
that the outside retail price Of homegrown
strawberries there was DC per quart and otner
things in proportion. Here two quarts for Csc
has been considered cheap. These are straws
that point to the general prosperity
of our city. Our working people nnd ready
employment and good wages, and the number
of mouths to feed are rapidly increasing, and
the assertion is made without hesitation that
no city of the continent lis enjoying greater
prosperity than our own. While the expense
of living here is greater than in most OF the
other greater centers of trade, there is the com;
pensation that the wage-earners are better paid
here. as a rule, than in other cities.
Good Week for Trade.
Said a leading produce commission merchant
to-day: 81 have never had as good week for
trade, and could have sold much more stuff
than was able to obtain. My sales one day
reached 81. 800 the best day have had this sea.
son." Others report in the same strain. Inc
present outlook is that next week will show no
falling off in the volume of trade.
The only marked feature of trade In dairy
products for the week has been the advance in
Elgin creamery butter. Ohio creamery Is un-
changed. and the effect of the rise has been to
increase the demand for the latter, which is
coming to market in very fine shape. New
Ohio cheese has declined Hc during the week,
and is moving out freely at the decline. Eggs
are stationary bnt steady. Guaranteed stock Is
a shade higher than week ago. The grocery
trade does not show the same activity as last
week, or for several weeks past.
The feature in this line has been
is recorded to-day. This decline has come at
an unusual time. time when sugars are usually
strongest. Spectators, however, anticipate
the rise by a few weeks, and are now having the
resultant reaction. Jobbers report that the
future of the sugar market is in the hands OF
refiRers.
Cereal markets in the main continue in buyers
favor, oats being the exception. Wheat and
-four are practically unchanged the past week,
with markets quiet.
Hay of all grades is weaker, owing to liberal
In the line Of oats. bulls have the field and
dealers predict still higher prices in the next