Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-16
THE MARKET BASKET.
Absence of Consumers Makes Dealers Com.
plain-Fish in Great Demund-No
Change In the Price of Staples
The Week,s Eentnraa

Change In the Price of Sfnples
The Weeks Features.
There have be en- few changes in price Of mar
ket basket materials the week past The
absence Of many of the best customers at the
seashore and mountains, is felt by the dealers,
but trade has been fairly good the past week.
BY large m ajority the consumer must stay at
home and. In a season like this when the fruit
and vegetable crop is light there little difficulty
in dsposing of stuff. There has been an un-
usual scarcity of ocean products for a week or
two past A leading dealer in the Diamond
market said yesterday: I'VE have not been
able to meet demand for Western fish this week
or two past. While prices have not been
changed, we are not getting cost for fish, of
late. Softshell crabs are very scarce, and
frogs are not to be had at any price. 1 have
seldom seen the time when it was so hard to
satisfy our customers as it has been this sum-
mer. The catch of Western fish has been un-
usually light tEis season.
Following are latest 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 l8c;
standing rib roast, from 15 to Zoe; chuck roast,
10 to 12c best round steaks, 125f to I5c; boiling
beef to &c; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair; beef
kidneys. 10c apiece; beef liver, sc pound; calf
livers % to 35c apiece; eorned beef from 10 l2c
roast 1211 to l5c; cuslets, 2Oc per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to 12c; hind quarters
l5c. A leg Of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l21ac; fore quarter, SC; loin Of
mutton, l5c; giblets, sc per pound.
Garden Stuff.
Cabbage, 5 to 1Oc; potatoes, zoe per half peck;
choice tomatoes, 15c quarter peck, 25c peck;
bananas, Is to 20c dozen; carrots, sc bunch;
lemons, 30 to 4Oc per dozen; oranges, IS
TO Soc; caulIf1ower, homegrown, 15 to Soc
head; lettuce. sc per bunch; beets. &c per bunch,
35c per dozen; green onions, punches for &c;
cucumbers SC apiece. 8 for 25c: peas 35c half
peck; beans, ,35c half peck; apples 20c quarter
peck; blackberries. 10 to Zoe quart; huckleber-
ries, 15c quart; celery, DC bunch; roasting
ears, 20 to 25c doZ; pineappes, Is to 25c apiece;
eggplant, Is to Csc apiece; squash, sc apiece;
watermelons. 20 to 4Oc apiece; cantaloups, 10 to
Csc apiece; California aprcots and peaches 40
to 60c dozen; German prunes, 35c a dozen;
grapes, 10c pound.
Choice creamery butter 2Sc. Good country
butter. 10 to Zoe. Fancy pound rolls, Is to 3Oc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c
The range for dressed chickens is 75c to 81 90
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon, 10 to 1211c;
California salmon. 35c per pound; white fish,
1211c; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to Soc pound; blue tsh. l5c; halibut
zVS. roCk odSs 1oc, DlacR DasS, loci lake trout
l21c; Holsters, 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to 25c
oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 75 per gallon; clans,
81 % per gallon; frog legs, 75c pound; soft
she'll crabs, 81 25 to 81 so per dozen; frogs, 81
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 25 per dozen; Mermets, 81 Is |
per dozen; Brides, 81 25 per dozen; yellow and |
white. 75c per dozen; Bennetts 81 90 per dozen; |
Beauties, Csc apiece; carnations, Soc per dozen;
l1l1um duratum. 20c apiece; gladislus, 81 dozen;
hydraryea, 20c apiece; sweet peas SC dozen.