The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-30
MARKET AND TRADE REVIEW.
THE SEATTLE MARKET.

The butter market is very unsettled just
now. The dealers until a few days ago
have been able TO maintain the price at u
cents, when one dealer forced the price
down 10 IS cents for no known reason, and
as a result IL Is claimed the Washington
creamerics viii be the sufferers. The deal
ers are divided as TO opinion of reducing
the price. Some are selling at l9 cents and
others at 20 and Il cents, quality OF butter
OF course regulating the higher or the
lower price.
Eggs continue quite firm at 1s cents and
there Is prospect of a still further advance.
Asparagus IL getting very scarce in mar
ket. Saturdays quotinss being $50 per
box.
A small shipment of hot house lettuce
arrived Saturday. and was sold at 4oc per
dozen.
Strawberries are not very plentiful as
yet; Natives are stu auotsahle at IS and
Hay Is moving OF slowly. though one
commission firm sold 100 tons to klon-
dixie party Saturday.
California -four has dropped in price 25
cents a barrel.
The following prices are being offered to
the producer by local dealers for delivery
in round lots on the dock or In the car at
Seattle;
Grain-Puget sound oats. sl7aas; barley.
So: Puget sound wheat chicken feed, se4:
bran. SIS: shorts. $l5.J90lG
Hay-Puget sound. s9mlo per ton: East
ern Washington timothy. sligl5.
Rye--whoie. se1
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch. 15c.
Butter-Fresh ranch, l0Il2c; creamery,
l1is@Isc
Poultry-chickens. i've i2c per III: spring
ducks. Saia. % per doz; spring chickens. S22o
ass per doz
Live stock-C'holce beef cattle. cows. 90
&c; steers. 4,2n4s.c; choice sheep. 49fac;
good hogs. live. sc; hogs. dressed. 6isGac;
calves. dressed, large. &c; small. Sc; calves,
Hides. pelts and wool-Heavy salted
steers. over 90 lbs, &c; medium; pei. 10, SIC:
ss sns ksns &C. calf psr a' se green
hides, 1c less than salted: dry hides per ID.
afilic: dry culs. one-third less; summer
Sc: papery deer sGlcc: dry elk. sal2c:
green elk. +15c; sheep pelts long wool, 75c
6Sl * each: medium pelts. 4ods5c: shear
s ie,v ,ze or ber bnsnsa 1ss ts
Washington WOO, sGilc; tallow 2'21I3c.
JobbIng Quotations.
Jobbing quotations Saturday were as
sugar. Flour and Co1ce.
Sugar lobbingl--Golien c. in bills. per
II. sSc: extra {. in bhls. per 10. size. dry
granniated. in bbls. per 10, &c: cubes. 'lsc:
Foar etc I'd ssaa zap Excellent
| sss5: Novelty A. s.. Star tbakers), A50:
F, Tyee. A-5: California brands. Sc; corn
meal. yellow sieo per u" ih, ,o ie1ln sacks %
Il
sacks: huckwheat -four, pure, 81 per 100 his.
| lo-ib sacks; cracked wheat, s. per 100 lbs:
| NIB sacks; farina. ass per 10 lbs; io-ih
l0-lb sacks: graham Hour. s.. ~ per 100 lbs,
Job sacks: Whole wheat flour. s. 20 per 100
HIS, Ie-lh sacks: rye meal: 81 20 ner 100 lbs.
sacks; pea meal s4s5 per loo lbs. loAIo
sacks; split peas, 81 per 100 lbs s5-lb boxes;
pearl barley, 81 per 10 lbs: 9-.h boxes:
pearl barley $50 per 100 lbs. In sacks: sniit
peas. s. 20 per I0D lbs. IN sacks; rolled
wheat s. per = lbs In sacks: wheat flakes:
s. IS per - lbs. in case: wheat fakes, - -
ga per case OF Is 2-lb pkgs: fancy rolled
| oats Sss5 per hi, IN s-lo sacks: corn
meal. yellow. & Der bbl. IN Sn-ib sacks: corn
neel; white S. per Dbl n , ns h saek Il
| aA,-Ib sacks. cracked wheat. So per bal IN
| 50-lh sacks; stses-cut cat meal, - 20 per noi.
| IN so-ia sacks: graham hour stie per Dbl.
| fl Se-ls sacks: whole wheat tlour. si.sa PEI
! hhl ir Sa-lh sacks: rye meal, 81 - ner bha
| IN sa-lb sacks: rye -four. sac per bol. N
| Sob sacks: pei meal. s. per hos IN So
| s.: fancy rolled oats. sob sacks. s8.sa;
| fancy rolled oats, per case. s. 30
J Coffee colh'ngs-fsreen- Mocha, per 10
choice. per IL. iie Roasted-Arbuckle's
1 IN laa-lh cases. ner cwt. siiss: Glib casss.
| per cat. aI.s. as-lo cases. per ewi. sii y;
| Adpn Mocha. sgtz:: Caracola. 70: Guate-
| mata sc. ground coffee. issiaAci Lion. fsss.
1 81 s.: So, su.ss; Ses. Si n.
| Meats. Provisions ana Fish
Fresh meats tiohbng}-Cow beef. sfFi'zs
| rer n. steer beef. ~ per 10: mutton V 9er
1 h. pork. sSI5a@s per III; veal large. Ssss'ci
I veal. small, Sc .o.
l ProviSiors .johbsrg1 Hams large. lefec.
/ hams, snail. fie; breakfast bacon, lie; dry
| sai,ed sides Ss<C.
| Lard tJohh!ssgl-Fiena made. per H. sac:
1 Ub{ts Star SHE. Coin Special. Yzc; lard
compound sierceS. ssgc: Rex, sac.
I Fresh aSh tioooins i--Hsbbut, ssftc: sal
+ gISsft., so-s< &c. rock God. &C: trout. l2'=9f
( IS: snrinsps la. ssi.slt. - k. tom cod -
| oysters. oiyrn s1.5o per sack. A-s1 per
J gallon; clans. 40 per sasH' A""ss'sesS
| crssss. live, s.; cooked. lie.
smoked fish liehoing s-salHioa. s1eelhesa.
| isisr: chinook lzh4c: fail salmon, Sagec; hal
| tbui. eaunxA sac. Ss4ess ~. asTE.ax. -