The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-14
TRADE AND SHIPPING.
New Potatoes and Vegetables
in the Market.
WEEklYRETAlL MARKET REVIEW.
Consignment Of Eastern Creamery Re-
ceived-Fresh California Stock Hold
Ing the Butter Market Down.
TIDES AT SEATTLE HAEscs TODAY.
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SEATTLE. March IS, 1891.
Exchanges at the Seattle clearing house today
amounted to sli5,ea7es. The balances were
$56,l5o.2i.
MARKETS.
A carload of nice Eastern creamery butter
came In yesterday and was offered at 20 cents.
Dealers say that prices are advancing in the
East, but have beea forced down here by the
fresh California stock which is coming in.
RETAIL MARKET REVIEW.
In the retail grocery and provision market
trade continues good, but it IL a little slack in
the fresh meat market. Prices have huctuated
but little except of butter. which has dropped
Is cents on California fresh roll aud 10 cents on
picked roll. Lemons have dropped 5 cents:
and In the vegetable market onions have ad-
vanced ga cents, while cabbage is down a cent.
some new potatoes, green peas and beans and
asparagus have come into the market from Cal
ifornis, and find ready sale. sailed meats have
advanced 2is cents and honey cents.
Poultry Is very scarce and dealers say they
have not had to pay rs high prices for stock in
years ~ they are paying now. In the fish and
oyster market trade has been good. Halibut has
commenced to como in more plentiful, aud the
price has dropped 10 cents. HOLSTERS and crabs
are also little cheaper.
RETAIL QUOTATIONS.
FLOUR AND MEAl.-Miunesota. S6o5: Cali
FORMS, 500; Oregon, 1850; Washington, $4.35
per Dbl. Cornmeal, sl.c; oatmeal. &C. Rice loc
per Id.
SUGARS Granuiatcd. 10 lbs: extra c. IA lbs;
golden q Is lbs cut loaf, II lbs. and puIverized.
BuTTER-F Fancy Eastern creamery, SIC, and
dairy, zoe per ID: California fresh roll, 6oc and
picked roll, 40c per roll.
EGGS-Fresh ranch, Sc, and Eastern, &c per
doz
CHEESE Eastern. zoe; California, zoe; Swiss
imported, 4oc, and domestic. SOC per h.
Washington navel oranges, J0c. 40 and
30c, and Riverside seedlings, 40c, 80 and zoe per
doz. Sicily lemons, soc, and CALIFORNIA;, S5c per
dox.
MISUNDERSTANDING potatoes. 1IIc: Oregon.
llloc, and California, lc per ID. Carrots, tnrnips
and beets, &c; cabbage. &C. and onions, SIC per
ID. Celery, soc, and caullfower, $50 per dog.
pinks, SIC per ID New green peas and beans,
zoe; asparagus, &c, and new potatoes, Zoe
CANNED GooDs-Peaches, pears and apri.
cots, 25c; cherries, strawberries and rsspberries
Soc; all other table fruits, Co., peas, 20c, and
corn. tomatoes and string beans, I5c,
CURED MEATS AND LARD-Natiye cured
hams, lT916c: Eastern, 129l3c; bacon l5e; dry
sailed meats, 129c; dried beef. Clipped, aoc, and
ia Hd,E saSlsc I psf It. syRupsc.,,o,n. com,
honey, 25c, and strained ljc per ID; pure maple
syrup, &l.2S9l.5o. and common syrups 5oc9,l
1lNhlAcO--(lOSSs pldIus Mlxc0 duu CHOW
chow, SOC per pint, or 75c per quart; domestics
in glass, 26(940c, and pure cider vinegar, 40c
per gal.
FRESH MEATs-Beef, for boiling, &c, and
steaks II, s@20c; veal, l2l4920c; mutton, l2lzt0
loo; pork, l36Gl5c; sausage, 1211(0i5c: poultry,
Eastern frozen, zoe, and native, freshly
FISH AND OYSTERS = Halibut in slices.
15c: smei;s, herring, founders. rock cod and
tom cod, Slsc; Eastern shad 25c; Holsters &C.,
crabs 5@Dc each; Eastern oysters CSC per can;
Sound oysters SOC per quart.
GENERAL SHIPMENTS.
During the past twenty-four hours goods and
merchandise have been shipped from Seattle in
the following amounts: BY rail-Northern Pa
cite, ITO tons; Columbia a. Puget Sound, SO tons;
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern, los tons. BY
water-McNear. 1911 tons; J. X. Mcdonald, 60
tons; Wasco, 10 tons: W. +. Munroe, n tons;
Delta, D tons; W. n. Merwin, II tons; City OF
Kingston, IL tons: Angeles, IL tons; City Of
Seattle, tons: Eliza Anderson, 5 tons; San
Juan, 3 tons; Baily Gatzert, 3 tons; Washington,
2 tons: Grace, tons; A. X. Robinson, tons;
Favofitc, ? tons. Total shipments, 2,46l tons.
MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE REcEIPTs
Produce and merchandise have been received
ct the port Of Seattle during the past twenty-f0ur
hours az follows: BY rail-Northern Pac-
ifc, 760 tons, Columbia & Puget Sound, 30 tons;
Seattle, Lake shore d Eastern, 3lS tons. BY
water-Premier. 20 tons; Henry Bailey !, IS tons;
State of Washington, ~ tons; Angeles, 10 tons;
City of Kingston, tons: Fsirhaven. S tons;
Wasco, tons. Total receipts, 1,25S tons.