Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
THE MARKET BASKET.
Butter and Eggs Firm and Other Staples
Quiet Mt Old Prices.

Butter ana Eggs Firm and Otner Staples
Quiet Mt Ola Prices.
There has been no material change in the
cost of market basket filing in the past
week. At the Diamond market stalls the
uniform testimony is, that trade is very
quiet. Prices have been down to hard pan
for weeks past. Zero weather has had the
effect of ssiffening prices of eggs, but not
enough to make any marked impression on
retail markets. Fancy Elgin creamery is in
short supply and very firm, but last weeks
quotations still hold good. Lake and ocean
products on the stalls are almost entirely
frozen stock. The movement is firm and
prices are unchanged.
Florists report an Improvement over last
week, as regards demand but prices are a
shade lower now than then. Staple meats
seldom change. Live stock is subject to
frequent and sharp changes. but butchers
do not follow the ups or downs OF cattle,
sheep and hogs Our steaks and roasts are
the same in price, whatever the changes OF
live stock may be.
Following are latest retail prices OF mar
ket basket materials:
MEArs-Best cuts or tenderloln steaks sc per
n: sirloin 1SGso0c: Standing rib roast, ISS20c;
cauck roasts, 12c; corned beef a910c per b:spring
lamb 15c; leg of mutton, l2sc for hindquarter and
a0c; st-ng pieces. &C per 10; veal rOasts l2sG15c
per ID, and outlets. 2Oc. Pork chops, 12'1c, and
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT-Ca5bages. 56D1Cc: pota-
toes, 15c per half peck: sweet potatoes 9@o5c per
beans, 35c quarter peck; pie pumpkins, l5025c:
onions. &c balf peck; bananas, 2oc dozen;
carrots. sc bunch: lemons. 20925c per dozen:
oranges, 1g3jc: lettuce, IOc per bunch, punches
for &c; heets. punches for 10c: cucum5ers. &c
apiece: celery, Sc bunch: caulifower. 156S5c
apiece: apples. 15ll20c half peck; tomatoes. Sc
quart box: Spanish onions, &C apiece; Malaga
grapes, &c pound; new beets, 10c a bunch, for
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery. 3a933c per
70: fancy brands. 3d35c; choice country rolls. 30c:
good cooking butter, lie; fresh eggs, 2tG35c per
dozen.
PoULTRY-Live chickens. Gz675e pair: live
turkeys, 126iSc per lb: live ducks, 60675c pairy
dressed chickens, IL to 1Sc per ID ducks, II to 1Sc
per fb turkeys, Is to 2pc.
tiNIE-Squirres, sc pair; rabbits. 30c pair.
quail. q 90 dozen woodcOck. 81 20 pair; pheas-
ants. 81 . pair; prairie chickens. 81 . pair:
Mallard ducks, 81 70 pair; yenison, 35c per ID:
jack rabbits. 50D95c apiece.
F1sH.Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls. with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 15c: Cali
iforn9 salmon 35 to 40c per pound: white fish. 1e5
to 15c herring pounds for sc: Spanish nackerel,
&c per pOund bluefish, 1jc; habut DC: rock bass,
DC Jake trout l22c: Holsters. 20c: green turtle
- to 25c; oysters New York counts. 81 70 per gal
Ion: srIelts, 20c pound: shad 81 90 10 81 y each;
scallops, 20c pound; Mackinaw trout, 121sc per
pound; frogs. g 90 dozen; CLAIMS, 81 20 q
gallon.
FLowERs-La France 50 co per dozen: Duchess
OF Albany s. GO per dozen; Hernets 81 30 dozen.
Brides, 81 80 per dozen: white and yellow roses.
81 80 per dozen: hostes. s. 30 per dozen: Senator
Wootren roses. 81 60 dozen; Bennetts. 3 90 Per
dozen; hyacinths, 7Jc per dozen: lily of the val
ley. 81 . per dozen: orchids. 75c TO 81 90 each;
vioets e 90 hundred: carnations. soc per dozen:
freezia, SOC per dozen; lilac, SOC spray.