The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02
TRUCK TAKES a DROP.
Northern Markets Down. but 6avan
nahians Have 70 Pay High Prices

Northern Markets Down, but 6avan =
nahians Have 20 Pay High Prices
The truckers shipped beans, cucumbers
and potatoes rather heavily the early part
OF last week, and as a result prices went
down so low as to be quite discouraging.
and some Savannah buyers pulled out alto
gether, telling the small truckers from
whom they had been buying that they would
ship for them, but wouldn't buy on their
own account
One firm shipped 104 crates of beans in q
refrigerator car to Philadelphia, and was
almost paralyzad when il received the re-
tnrn showing that the shipment had brought
only s3l after deducting freight, carriage
and commission. The freight alone was
$50 2S Of which $50 was for use of refrige-
TOR, and S39 Is for transportation. Cucum-
oers went as low as 40 cents per crate, beans
to 80 cents per crate, and potatoes went
down as low af SO per barrel
Toward the middle of the week there was
a favorable reaction. partly occasioned by
lighter shipments and partly because four
teen solid cars of vegetables were shipped
over the Central to Cincinnati for western
markets, where better prices were re-
ceived.
Beans sold at 81 % to 81 50 in New York
Saturday and potatoes at So rs to SO. Po-
tatoes at Cincinnati Friday sold at s. IS to
"a and beans at 81 and 81 %.
A MORNING NEWS reporter was shown
advices yesterday from Mobile and New
Orleans that the bean crop there has been
exhausted and the potato crop pretty we'll
marketed, and if this is true the west must
now look to the Atlantic coast for its beans
and potatoes. Twenty carloads of vege-
tables will go west this week, with 2219
cents per crate on vegetables and "a cents
per barrel on potatoes as the freight tariff.
Vegetables are hauled to the Central rail-
road yard on West Broad street, where
they are received from 2 a. N. to p. m,
and cars leave daily this week for Cincin-
natl. Messrs. Exley 81 Buck shipped two
solid carloads of POTATOES last week, one car
containing 147 barrels and the other 172
barrels.
The potato crop of this section Is i'm
mense, and the quality of the tuber is OK
cellent. L. NJ Ryals has thus far shipped
1000 barrels Of potatoes, and Mai. G. NJ.
Ryals mas been shipping on an average 200
barrels per day. The Bellevue came in
from Button, s. c., yesterday with 225
barrels for reshipment by to-day's New
York steamer
II is expected that the western shipments
will relieve the northern market, SO that
Savannah potatoes may command better
prices this week, as the Norfolk crop will
begin to be marketed before the close of the
week, and when it goes in lively prices will
drop.
Savannah consumers do not get much
benefit from the low prices. A gentleman
said last week, as he looked over the return
or shipment made by friend: 81 have
been paying bigger prices for my vegetables
Tor the table than they would have cost me
II had ordered them shipped from New
YORK, and yet the vegetables
are from within mile Of the
city. We paid Is cents for two
cucumbers early in the week when they
sold at 90 cents crate north with freight,
carriage and commission off. was paying
at the rate of 81 crate, and l paid IS
cents quart for potatoes, about S12 a
barrel, when they were selling at So a bar
rel north. with expenses to come out of
that. We could have home market if the
prices were not out of all proportion"
Complaints of this kind were general in
the early part of the week, but on Satur-
day cucumbers, beans and potatoes sold
reasonably low. Good cucumbers sold at
three for dime, beans cents per quart
and potatoes % cents peck.
Green corn of very fair quality retailed
earlier in the day at rs cents per dozen, but
before the close of the Saturday night mar
ket concessions were made and the stock
closed out at 20 cents per dozen. Okra was
In the market, but scarce at 90 cents per
quart. Vegetables will rule lower this
week in the Savannah market