The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-22
Berries Are Scarce but VIII
Soon Be More Plen-
tiful.
TOMATOES AND SPUDS
Quotations From New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, Portland and
Elsewhere.
Spokane. Wash. June 90.


terday was the extreme scarcity of straw
berries. only a few of which arrived. not
enough to anywhere near supply the de-
mand. Shipments from other points than
Walla Walla are expected in a day or
two
New potatoes are becoming cheaper and
are now quoted at $1.50dl75 per hundred
pounds. New tomatoes. of which daily
shipments are received from Florida and
Mississippi, are also cheaper.
The wheat market is firm and un-
changed.
Wheat-A No. 1, dry bulk, at country
points, Ale; sacked, 44c.
Flour-Plansifter, $500; Superb, $275;
Gold Drop, $2.75; Our Best, S2.75.
Spokane breakfast cereals-Rolled oats,
per barrel, So per bale, S2.75; wheat man
ma, in bulk, 75-lb. box, $2.25; per case, 50;
rye flour, "a per barrel; farina, $2.70 per
bale of 100 pounds.
Feed-Bran and shorts, per ton, 50; clear
shorts, $40; straight bran, ton $3.50; chop
ped barley, per ton, $12Q1S; oats. per ton,
$l5.5O4l6; chicken feed, per ton, S10Gl1;
timothy hay, N@75O; grain hay, S6q6.5O.
Produce-Creamery butter, solid pack,
lie; Cheney creamery, 17G1Sc; butterine,
creamery, lSQ20c; butterine, dairy 1S12c;
country butter, in rolls. per pound 10q12c;
cheese, twins, skim milk per pound, &c;
cheese, Cheney, full cream, 10G101hc; eggs,
ranch, per case, $34325; honey, per pound,
133sQ1Sc.
Groceries - Blackberries. dried, per
pound, &c; apples, evaporated, Sc; cur
rants, dried, SIC; peaches evaporated,
&c; Italian, Sc; Silver, 10c pitted plums
&c; Muscatel raisins, bags, &c; London
layer boxes, $l.75; Snake river Italian
prunes, 7qSc; silver prunes, &c; pitted,
Ease; peaches sun dried 7c, vinegar,
Washington cider, 24c; sugar, graduated
SIC; extra c, 52sc; golden c. 5Isc green
coffee, per pound, 211Ac; roasted, $3.50;
Arbuckle's, $22.30; Lion, 1920; Cordova,
$22.3O; McLauglin's, $22S0; gold band, So. 30;
salt, rock, per cwt., 90c; dairy, per cwt.,
| $l.l5; crackers, Washington sodas, &c;
xxx, 6lsc; oysters, 61Ac; ginger snaps,
Zoe; canned goods per case, 21a-lb. plums,
$3.50; 21s-lb. apricots, 49, 2lA-lb. peaches,
$40; 219-lb pears, $40; 215-lb. assorted
table fruit, 1925; 21s-lb tomatoes. 81; cove
oysters. lib. cans, 81 per dozen; 2-lb. cans,
| $l.f5 per dozen; Columbia river salmon,
$3.50; evaporated cream. per case, $40;
corn. 81; corn meal, bulk, per sack, $2.10;
1910 bales, 81 80; rice, Japan, SC; Siam, 47sc.
Canned meats-Corned beef lib cans,
per dozen, $l.55; 2-fb cans, $3.50; lunch
tongue, lib cans, $3.50; Clipped beef, lib
cans, 2.25; deviled ham, 1S-1b cans, $1.40.
Coal oil-23c per gallon in bulk, S2.75 per
case.
Poultry-Chickens. spring, $2d25O; hens.
per dozen, $275d3; turkeys live, per
pound, lie; dressed, per pound, lac; ducks,
spring, $35004.
Soap-Spokane Soap Works Co., Golden
Climax, 100 cakes, GO pounds, S2.75; Smi-
! lax, 6S pounds, SO; Home Industry, 81.
Old Badly, $3.75@510; Uncle Ned. tar, $50;
! Nugget, 70 pounds, $50; Savon Blanc.
| $3.15 Borax $3.50; Toilet CASTLE, 125; sal
soda, per pound &c.
Tallow-Steady and dull; &c in barrels
raw tallow, 119q2c; prime grease. 11a9
2lhc.
Vegetables-Potatoes 3Oc; new turnips,
cwt., 50; beets, cwt., 81; cabbage. Califor-
MIA, $3.50 per cwt; onions, S2d2.25 per
cwt.; green onions, 121a@15c dozen; spin
ach, 2Q3c per pound; rhubarb, 115@2c per
| pound asparagus, 607c per pound; rad
| ishes, 15c per dozen; new turnips, 25c per
dozen; green peas, &c per pound; new po-
| tatoes, $l.50d1.75 per 100 pounds; new to-
matoes, 2O-fb cases. 81 1908; 36-ib cases,
! $3.50G4. Walla Walla cabbage, PFC
| onions. Sl.75M2.
Nuts-Walnuts, 15c per pound: Brazils,
l4c; almonds, soft shell, 12lkd15c; peanuts,
green, &c; roasted, Sc; pecans, lac.
Fruits-New California navals, S.5O6
3 70; seeding oranges. 2.25a2 so; Sicily
lemons, fancy Messina, %.25d775; Calfor-
mia, S4.5OG4.75; California figs, sleeper 1O-lb
pound box; Turkish figs. tic per pound;
dates, $3.50 per 14-pound box; bananas,
S4G4.5O per bunch; strawberries, $l.75d2
| per crate; Snake river and Walla Walla
cherries, 5Od75c per box.
Fish Tetail)-Fresh trout, per pound,
| 15c; shad. 15c; fresh salmon, per pound.
l215c; smoked salmon, Csc; smoked smelts.
1Oc; herring, 1Oc; founders, 1Oc; Goldfish.
| 15c; rockcod, 15c; crabs, 15G25c each
clans, Sc per pound.
Provisions-Smoked bacon. Sasc: pack
ing house brands, none; breakfast bacon,
lie; dry salt clears. Sc: hams. medium,
home sugar cured. Spokane brand, INC;
Chinook brand, He; II. & f. brand
11Ac; lard, pure leaf, 5-pound tins, S5sc;
tens, &c less; fifties, sc less; cottolene,
S-pound pals, 91sc; 5-pound pals, &c; 10
pound pals, SBc.
Meats-Beef stall fed, S3d3.25; dressed
S6d7: retail, 3d12i5c choice cuts. 15c
hogs, live weight, SEC; dressed, 4lkd5c
retail, Zoe; mutton, 4Q1Oc veal, 4G12c
choice cuts, 1OQ15c; mutton by the car
cass, Sc; veal by the carcass, sac.