Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-02
FEATURES OF TRADE.
First Arrival of Fruit From Gulf of Mexico
This Week-Dairy Products Tend Up
ward-Receipts of Grain and Hay
Light and Demand Also Light.
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
In Produce Lines.

In Produce Lines.
Among the features of the past week has
been the arrival of new strawberries and Gu
cumbers from the Gulf of Mexico. These first
arrivals are somewhat ahead of the average
time a fact no doubt due to the mild winter. In
the line of dairy products prices are steadily
hardening of late, especially for high grade
creamery butter and good cheese. Stocks are
very light in the hands of jobbers, and pros
poets are good for further advances IN price.
New York prices of Elgin creamery butter and
fresh eggs have been below those of Pittsburg
for several days past, whereas the difference is
usually the other way. Fresh eggs have been
higher in PittsburG the past few days than any,
where else in the land. In Cincinnati and St
Louis the jobbing price has ruled &c to 4c per
dozen lower than here. This has been partly
due to the floods in the Ohio Valley, whence
large part of our supplies come. Large guam
titles are awaiting the first opportunity of ship
ment, ana there will no doubt be plenty the
coming week and lower prices.
But as to choice dairy products, there Is no
fear of an over supply, and the drift is sure to
be toward higher prices There has been
good movement of potatoes the past week ar
outside Qsotations. In other lines of vegetables
the situatIon has been favorable to the buyer.
Cabbage and onions are particularly quiet. The
same is true of apples The high price of ap-
piles has very much curtailed demand. With
tropical fruits SO abundant and low as they
have been the past winter there has been
very light consumption of the dear domestic
article.
Cereals and Groceries.
1t will be seen by reference to domestic mar
ket column that receipts of cereals have been
light the past week. Demand has been also
light, but prices are firm with corn and oats
higher than they were week ago. There has
been little life to bidding at the Grain Ex-
change though stuff has been offered at prices as
low as at sources of supply. Since the ssoppage
of street improvements by the decision of
courts, the retail trade has perceptibly de-
cllned. Retailers are evidently buying only to
supply immediate wants. The feature of the
week in grocery lines has been the upward
movement of sugar. At the beginning of the
month the general expectation was that prices
would steadily move downward until April l.
when sugar goes onto the free list. And in
this expectation jobbers were carrying light
stocks. Now it seems there is danger of q
scarcity the coming month, and hence prices
are tending higher Green coffee advanced &c
per pound the past week in Eastern markets,
but the advance fails to reach the roasted arti-
Gle as yet
Package coffee is relatively 1c per pound
lower than the green article. The pork pack
ers Of the city agreed on reduction of 15c on
at their regular meeting today.
The Hide Market.
The stronger tone to light hide market noted
n week ago. has developed into an advance of
1Lc per pound, and our quotations are advanced
accordingly Steer hides are fairly steady, but
prices are unchanged. The same is true OF
calfskins.
Following are prices paid by tanners and hide