The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-22
The Market Well Supplied With All
Kinds of Delicacies.
QUOTATIONS YESTERDAY
PRICES GOVERNING ARE CON-
SIDERED REASONABLE.
Turkeys Go at Seventeen and Half
Cents Per Pound-In the Fruit
Line-Vegetables-The Wholesale
and Retail Produce Markets-No
Material Changes.

The following quotations on Thanks
giving supplies and general produce
and provisions will govern the local re-
tail market this week, the market
being we'll supplied with delicacies for
the Thanksgiving dinner, with prices
| reasonable:
Poultry Turkeys, dressed, 171A cents
per pound; geese, dressed, 1715 cents
per pound; spring chickens, dressed. 10
cents per pound; old chickens, dressed,
121a cents per pound; teal ducks, %
cents per pair; mallard ducks, so cents
per pair; mediums, 40 cents per pair;
tame ducks, 10 cents per pound.
Fish and Oysters-Trout, % cents per
pound; black bass, 20 cents per pound; ;
salmon, 1919 cents per pound; catfish
smelts and founders, Is cents per
pound; oysters, canned, 80 cents; oys-
ters in bulk, 40, so and go cents per
quart; shrimps, 20 cents per quart.
F'ruit-Very little remains of the
market for fruit. Peaches and pears
are practically gone, and what re-
mains Of the old crop of good oranges
sell at a fair price. New oranges a
few of which have been received by
local dealers, are unripe and command
no figure. Good apples will be scarce
from now on, owing to the cold, and
have already made a jump from last
weeks quotations.
Oranges, old, 80 to 40 cents per dozen;
good apples So cents per peck; bananas
20 to % cents per dozen; choice prunes,
% cents per peck; lemons, new, 30
cents per dozen; grapes, 121a cents per
pound.
Vegetables-No material changes in
the prices of vegetables are announced,
though the cold weather has a telling
effect on the quantity furnished the
market. The farmers cannot so read
lily rob their pits of potatoes cabbage,
etc, as heretofore.
Potatoes are quoted at 40 cents per
bushel; sweet potatoes, six pounds for
% cents; cabbage 9 cents per pound;
beets and turnips, 25 cents -;er peck;
cranberTies are 10 cents per mart.
Honey is worth 10 cents per pound;
maple sugar, 10 cents per pound, and
eocoanuts 10 to Is cents each.
Flour, grain and hay remain sta
tionery.
Flour-No. 1 bakers, s1.75 per 100
pounds; straight, $1.S5; high patent, 81.
Wheat-65 cents per bushel; corn,
$1.1O per 100 pounds; oats. $1.25 per 100;
cracked barley, $1.2O per 100; rye, 80
cents per 100; bran, rs cents per 100
Hay-Timothy $12 per ton; alfalfa,
81 per ton; mixed, SO per ton.
Butter and Cheese-Butter cream
cry, rs cents per pound; ranch, 20 cents
per pound; cheese, Is and 20 cents per
pound; eggs, % cents per dozen.
WHOLESALE PRODUCE.
The wholesale selling price of turkeys.
geese and tame ducks, dressed, is Is to
16 cents per pound.
The following quotations represent
the buying prices of the wholesale deal
er that is, the prices paid the seller:
Wheat-Best milling grade, SO cents
per bushel.
Oats-$11O to S115 per 100 pounds.
Barley-Feeding % cents to 81 per
100 pounds.
Barley-Brewing, s1.1O to $1.2O per 100
pounds.
corn-shelled, 81 to $1O5 per 100
pounds.
Corn-Chopped, s1.1O to $115 per 100
pounds.
Rye-65 cents per 100 pounds.
Alfalfa SEEDS to 5 cents per pounds
F1our-High patent, $1.55 per 100
pounds; straight grade, $40; bakers
No. /, $1.30.
Fresh Eggs 81 per case.
Butter-Ranch, 20 cents per pound;
creamery, 25 cents.
Choice Spuds-35 cents per busneI.
Apples-50 to So cents per bushel.
Onions-Prime, 70 cents per 100
pounds.
Chickens-old, 10 cents per pound;
young, 121s cents.
Grouse-S25O to $500 per dozen.