New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-13
PRICES AND NOTES IN THE MARKETS.
FAMINE IN ORANGES AND LEMoNs-CALI
FORNIA FRUIT-SPANIsH MACKEREL
pIFNTJETI

FORNIA FRUIT-SPANIsH MACKEREL
PLENTIFUL.
The feature of the markets this week was the
sudden and lofty jump In the prices OF oranges and
lemons these fruits selling auction high as
$40 SO a box for oranges from the Island Of Rod
Italy, and at 80 box for Maori brand Of lemons
from the Mediterranean source The Med
terranean orange and fruit growers are reaping
harvest this along with the peach pear plum
and prune growers OF California and the melon growers
Of the South, all because of the failure in the Delaware
peach crop When lemons sell at 80 box, holding
800. at the auction rooms, the commission merchant
charges 1-2 cents each for them, about S11 box,
and the retail merchant who breaks up the box com
pels the perspnng customer who wants to make a
little lemonade pay at the Of ST. box. Thus
is the value enhanced though the quantity remains
Just the To fully appreciate this boom in
lemons 1t must be remembered that at this date last
year they sold at So 30 box, which was considered
a good price, TOO. The rise caused by a sudden
famine in the West owing TO the hot weather and the
fact that few lemons were in stock here. The next
auction sale will be Of cargo Of 10000 boxes OK
pected here carly next week. The Rodi oranges bring
So and 81 a half-box, containing 100 oranges. The
boom in oranges, aside from the eevating effect gen.
orally Of the failure in the Delaware ach orchards
due to the fact that there almost no oranges
in market, except the Mediterranean supply, which Is
limited this year. The Jamaica crop will not be
available before September.
watermelons are 40 per cent higher this year than
last because OF the absence Of Delaware peaches while
pears plums and prunes cost 80 per cent more, and
even whorteberrics sell 90 per cent higher. The
humble eater In city restaurant has just what these
figures indicate dochcd' from the supply brought TO
him by his waiter; thus everybody Is suffering
WhOrtleberres cost the hOustkeepcr 90 cents quart
box In the market apples from Jersey, are
worth go and IS cents basket; Japan plums, from
California. cost SO box. and Quackenbush pums, 81
q box; Bartlett pears worth So box. and Florida
nectarines, the beautifully variegacd cross between
a peach and plum worth 81 80 n box. Niagara
grapes can be had this week for II cents pound; 60
cents will buy six pound box OF Concord Delaware
grapes dollhouse grapes can be had for II pound,
fall Of SO In four months. Large California peaches
Early Cnwords and Tuscan Cllngs sell from 30 cents
to 81 dozen. ewJersey muskmeons cost and
10 cents, and Virginia wateimelons % to so cents
each
New-laid eggs from Long Island are worth 30 cents
dozen, which high figure, like almost everything, IS
attributed to the demoralizng effect OF the failure OF
the Delaware peach crop. Fourteen State eggs can be
had for %. cents. Elgn creamery butter costs q
cents a pound and Western dairy butter % cents.
Cottage cheese IS sold In the market for cents a
pound full-cream cheese cost Ia cents.
Roasting pigs cost from 50 to 81 each. Dreaded
pigs feet are 75c dozen. Picked pigs feet COO
a dozen Honeycemb tripe costs SC a pound. Lambs
tongues cooked are soc a dozen. Fresh OK tongues
are Csc each tails dozen, are 81 Calves brains,
q dozen, soc. Calves heads 40c each. Calves
nvers from CSC TO SOC apiece according to size
Calves feet, set, csc. Fresh calves tongues
are al apiece sweetbreads cost from 81 to as a
dozen.
Lamb kidneys are 36c a dozen. Beef tongues,
fresh, are apiece. Beef Kidneys 1Oc apiece.
Beef tenderolns from 25 to zoe pound Beef
rolls cost 13c pound. Pork tenderlons are 1sc a
pound. Lard which comes In tubs IL &C pound
Lard which comes In pals Is 1Oc pound french
New Jersey and Long Island are supplying this city
With plenty OF fresh vegetables and garden truck
20 CENTS hafpeck string beams cost % cents
hafpeck; sheled peas are worth % cents a
quart; lima beans, 80 cents peck: savoy cab
bages, to cents head white turnps 10 cents
half peek new sweet potatoes, 90 cents a peck ;
raddishes, cents bunch: oyster plant, 10 cents
bunch; green okra, % cents hundred cau
II bunch. and onion sprouts, cents bunch Mich
'gan celery. 40 cents dozen roots; soup greens,
5 cents bunch lettuce, and 10 cents a head ;
tomatoes, 10 cents quart or Al % a crate; green
corn, 90 cents a dozen ears: cucumbers, cents
each: green peppers. 20 cents dozen and new
cooking apples, 3 cents quart.
HOthOu-e mushrooms In the market and can be
had for 81 pound
Young geese from Boston sold at 90 cents n
pound frozen Vermont turkeys are % cents pound
Philadelphia capons from cold storage, 30 and 80
cents q pound scalded Western brocrs cost u cents
DOund. and dry picked broilcs. 30 cents: Thllnde
phia broers are % Frcnchklllcd spring ducks
can be had for % and % cents pound
Stalled pigeons cost s2 80 dozen: fresh killed
blackbirds. 40 and 30 cents dozen: Philadelphia
white sqiab are 81 So and dark squad. 81 rs dozen
The markets exceedingly bare Of game at this sea
Spanish mackerel. caught in nearby waters, are
abundant and sell for 30 cents pound; Lye sea
bass be had for 10 cents pound. Blnensh are
worth only 10 10 IL IL cents pound now.