The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-29
SALT LAKE MARKETS.
PRICES PREVAILING THIS WEEK
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Markets Are Well Supplied and
Prices Have an Upward Tendency
Good Holiday Trade Expected.

The local market of the present week
exhibits but few changes from the pre-
vious week, and features are not ait
all numerous. Dealers find an upward
tendency in prices of vegetables and
dairy products. Potatoes, which have
been practically unmarketable for the
past few weeks, are now in fair de-
mand and bring an average of % cents
per bushel. Dealers report an active
business week and predict healthy
continuance until the holidays.
Live Stock.
The live stock market was moderate
~ active, cattle ranging from to "a
cents. Good muttons are firm at 2
cents. There was a good demand for
hogs, with the bulk of sales at $3.50
per hundred. Common to good NUT
tons brought an average of 81. Veal
in poor demand, but a few sales were
made at $3.50. Dressed lambs were ac-
tive, bringing cents and upward.
Hay and Grain.
The hay and grain market was fairly
active and the articles brought the fol-
lowing prices: Wheat, 45 cents per
bushel; oats, 80 cents per 100; barley,
60 cents; rye, Is cents; alfalfa, 81 per
ton; timothy, 50. scarce.
Game.
Ducks and Jack rabbits are in good
demand. Teal ducks bring 81 per doz-
on; common large ducks, S1.75 per
dozen; mallard ducks, 81; grouse, $1.75.
Jack rabbits sold actively at rs cents
per dozen and cotton-tailS at 81 to S1.25.
Fruit.
The fruit season is over and dealers
look for little activity until California
products begin to arrive. Oranges are
expected in a week or ten days.
Retail Markets.
The following are the retail prices:
Meats and Poultry-Steaks, to Is
cents; boiling beef, to cents; roast
beef, to 10 cents; mutton, 5 to 121a
cents; veal, to Is cents: lambs, to
ID cents; pork, to 121a cents; venison,
10 to 20 cents; chickens and turkeys. 10
cents; sausage, bologna, 10 cents, and
weinerwerst 1212 cents per pound; pork
and beef sausage, 121a cents; choice
pork sausage, 10 cents.
FfSh-Salmon, 10 cents per pound
smelts, 121a to Is cents; founders and
shoals, 1212 to Is cents; fresh herring,
l212 to 10 cents; shad, Is cents; catfish,
Is cents; mackerel, 20 cents; Utah lake
carp, to 10 cents; black bass, 20 cents;
lake trout, % cents; mountain trout, 80
cents; common fish, such as mullets,
suckers and chucks, cents, six
pounds for % cents; eastern perch, Is
tc Trrhi 70 fc1,
pike, 20 cents; small white bass, 20
cents.
Fruit-Pea ches, plums and prunes are
out Of the market, and but few pears
are left, and those of a poor quality.
Apples are selling 20 to % cents per
peck; pears, three pounds for % cents;
California grapes, So cents per bas-
ket; persimmons, 1872 cents per pound
clanberries, 121a cents per quart; or
anges, 40 to 80 cents per dozen; figs, %
cents per pound; dates, 1919 cents;
bananas, 10 to Is cents per dozen.
getables--Potatoes, 40 cents per
bushel; turnips, 20 cents per peck; car
rots, % cents per peck; Utah cabbage,
21s cents; red cabbage and raddishes,
out of the market; beets, 20 cents per
peck; California lettuce, cents per
head; green onions, two punches for )
cents; squash, 10 to Is cents; Califor-
MIA tomatoes, 90 cents per pound; sweet
potatoes, eight pounds for % cents;
celery, 3 cents per bunch: cau!ifiower,
1212 cents per bushel; spinach, cents
per pound; onions and parsnips, 20
cents a peck
Dairy Products-Creamery butter is
lower, selling at 25 cents per pound;
ranch quality is in good demand and
brings from IL to 20 cents, retailing at
20 cents and upwards; cooking quail
ity brings 10 to Is cents, and retails at
1912 to 16 cents; cheese, II to Is cents;
eggs are scarce, and brings from %
cents up retailing at about 80 cents.
Groceries and Provisions-Flour,
Utah. s1.2O to $3.50; rye flour, S1.75;
buckwheat -four, $3.50; corn meal, 81 so;
sugar, beet, $50; sugar, cane, Sis;
coffee, from 20 to 371a cents; tea, Is to
80 cents; ham. IL cents: breakfast ba-
con, IL cents; dry salt, cents; lard,
75a to cents; beams, $3.50; canned corn,
1925 to sS.75 per case; mackerel, 81. 70
per 15-pound kit; Holland herring, 81. SO
per key of four dozen; pickles, 80 cents
per key; rice, 4 cents; soda crackers, Z
cents; snowflakes, 121s cents; Diamond
oysters, cents; Monitor oysters, 9
cents.
Miscellaneous-Bran, 8 cents per 100;
shorts, 80 cents; alfalfa seed. cents
per pound; timothy, cents; redtop 10
cents: red clover 1919 cents Der T,o,1,1d