Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-30
AT THE MARKETS.
Improvement in Trade Reported by Dealers
Some Fruits nnd Vegetables Little
Lower-Advance In Dairy Products-
prira. nf Sfnufee.

Prices of Staples.
At the Diamond market stalls an improve
ment was reported over last week. Many of
the good customers who; for the past month or
two have been consumers at Atlantic ports.
have returned. and there is already percepti-
BILE improvement in demand. Prices of fruits
and vegetables vary very little from rates of
last Saturday. In jobbing way, melons, pota-
toes and tomatoes are a shade lower. but the
decline is not sufficient to affect the retail
markets to any extent. All dairy products are
on the advance. The advance in creamery but
ter has brought oleo to the front once more.
and a very large proportion of that which is
now sold for butter is the imitation.
Where ignorance is bliss it were folly to be
be wise" Certain it is that the masses are
spreading their bread with other than genuine
butter. A leading dealer said yesterday, We
are selling much more oleo than butter, and our
customers are entirely satisfied. Choice oieo
Is much more satisfactory than the common
grades of butter. In the line OK staple meats
there are seldom any changes no matter what
the price of beeves, sheep and swine. PRICES IN
this line are the same as for months past. There
is still great,scarcity of western fish. Demand
far exceeds supply. Eastern fsh are also in
light supply. A leading dealer reports that it
is utterly impossible to fill orders for western
fish. Florists report quiet weeks trade with
prices unchanged. Following are the latest re-
tail prices as furnished by leading 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 lSc;
standing rib roast from Is to 20c; chuck roast,
10 to 12c best round steaks, l2l< to'15c; boiling
beef to Sc; sweet breads 20 to SOC per pair: beef
kidneys. l0c apiece; beef liver, SC pound; calf
livers to Csc apiece; corned beef from l0to l2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast l215 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 l215c; fore quarter, &c; loin of
mutton, LOCI giblets. sc per pound.
Garden Stun.
Cabbage, to l0c; potatoes zoe per half peck;
tomatoes, 10c a quarter peck; bananas Is to Zoe
a dozen; carrots sc a bunch; lemons, 80 to 40c
per dozen; oranges IS TO Soc; caulIfower, l5 to
35c head; lettuce. sc per bunch; beets SC per
bunch S5c per dozen: eucumbers, Sc apiece, 6
for 25c: beans. 35c half peck; ap-
is to zoe quart; huckleberries. 15c quart;
celery, sc bunch: roasting ears. 20 to 25c doz.
eggplant, 10 TO l5c apiece; squash. &c 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 dozen; grapes, l5e a pound, for
Choice creamery butter 30c. Good country
butter, Is TO 20c. Fancy pound rolls, 30 to 35c.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 25c.
The range for dressed chickens is SOC to 81 20
per PAR; ducks, 60c to 81 co.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to I26c;
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
R1zc; herring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mack
erel % to SOC pound; blue fish l5c; halibut,
zoe; rock bass, Csc; black bass, l5c; lake trout,
l2zc; HOLSTERS, 20c: green sea turtle, 20 to 25c.
Oysters: N. Y. counts, 81 70 per gallon; clans,
81 Is per gallon: soft shell crabs, 81 25 to 81 SO
per dozen; brook trout. 75c pound.
Flowers.
La France. 81 % per dozen; Mermets 81 25
per dozen; Brides. 81 rs per dozen; yellow and
white. 75c per dozen; Bennetts 81 90 per dozen;
Beauties, 25c apiece; carnations, Soc per dozen;
lilium auratum, 20c apiece; gladislus, 81 dozen;
hydrangea, 20c apiece.