The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-28

Tide at seattle Harbor Today.
fiisH 4Sie, Low Tide
/. m feet p N feet a m feet pm feet
80 la4 as i5.sIi i.ss 100 LIS o.s
Al Port Townsend.
All 81 s.f7l 10.7Il o.g 50 i2.23I o.
Seattle. May q. 1895.
Exchanges at Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland clearing houses today were.
C1earances. Balances.
Seattle ...............x ssh y So. IA s,
Tacoma .............. 1855 % zl,7.l -
Portland ..........-.- ~ a1 ~ n. AS 90
Tnls weeks market opened rather firn
and there was a good demand for com
m0diues generally Merchants as a rule
admit that business during the past few
weeks has been much better than they
expected. stating that while no great vol
ume OF business Is being done. prices are
such as viii allow them To make a fairly
good profit on their sales. More native
productions are being handled here than
ever before. and consequently shipments
from the East have been greatly reduced.
IN previous years eggs and butter came
here from Iowa. Nebraska and ether
s,ates east OF US in large quantities. but
this year has witnessed a change ard
especially Ia this so In the matter of
eggs Compa ratIvely few have been re-
eeived here for the reason that the home
production nas been very large, and
they have been placed SO low that there
has been no encouragement 10 outside
shippers to endeavor to find n market in
Seattle. Eggs are now selling at from
z cents TO 1919 cents. and have been
down as low as 10 and II cents. Several
efforts have been made by some OF the
local merchants to fix on a higher price
and maintain It, but the large ma ior-
ity have shown that they are opposed
TO II. and as a result the low price con-
tInues.
The demand for first-class potatoes Is
good. A great many have been shipped
East this season, the Rochester Broker
age Company doing a large business In
that direction. Reports come from Yak
ina that the supply OF potatoes has
about given on. and that very few will
be shipped 10 the local market. Good
potatoes can be bought today for from
81 10 s. ton. An Eastern man who
wanted about fifty car loads a few days
ago was offered them for s. but he de-
elned on the ground that he could get
them fol 81. Yakimas sell at from SO
to si2
Local straw berries are selling al 81. and
merchants have very little II any trouble
in disposing Of the supply. So far this
season the local berries have come from
east ot Lake Washington and Nashon
Island Merchants say that Nashon
placed the frat In the market. Oregon
and California are stil shipping berries
here Heretofore Oregon has usually
been earlier tdat Washington. but this
season local berries were in the market
before those from the former state ar
rived The Monarch variety Is favor
lie here. but the Clark Seeding which
has been used so extensively at Hood
river, Is gaining popularity, and may ere
another seasob command Seattle trade.
II Is a fine shipper and arrives about
as early as the average berry. Several
thousand plants have been placed In the
ground IN Seattle and vicinity, and re-
ports are TO the effect that they are In
fne condition.
There Is no change I'm She grain mar
ket little more is coming In just now
but prices remain the same.