The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-25
SALT lake Markets
ARE WELL SUPPLIED.
Dainties That Only Millionaires
Can Reach.
AND VEGETABLES
MANY NEW THINGS On THE
MARKET.


The people Of salt Lake have no rea-
son to complain of a lack Of fruit and
vegetables thus far this SPRING. There
is a good variety of each to be found in
the. local market and the quality is far
above the average. The prices on some
of the dainties are enough 70 head OF
All but mihionaires, Eut the more COM
mon articles are eheapeE than they
have been in other seasons.
New .Utah peas made their debut on
the street on Thursday and yester-
day were being sold at the rate of
three POUNDS for p cents,
Fine, cucUnberss are In from the soliah
p cents. Utah spinach is plentiful
/ and sells for cents a pound.
/ Asparagus is unusually fine this year,
and waste Quantities OF il have been.
I consumed by the Salt Lake people. 1T.
can be had at the rate of three good
sized punches FOR 10 cents. New tur-
I nips We're In the market ~yesoerday at
/ three punches for 10 cents Radishes,
4 rhubarb and onions are. plentiful and
Z cheap in the market and large Quantf4
i green SFocer5. New potatoes are IN
= from the south and go at the rate Of
/ three pounds for 25 cents. To-
j matoes from Louisiana are SLOW sellers
i at % cents a pound.
straw berries have been the standard
Il fruit Tor the past two weeks, coming
3 from California in large Quantities and
& -of good quality. They are now SELF
= ing at the rate of two boxes for
+ pa cents. The first Uftah berries
4 made cher appearance yesterday, out
they are still rather green. They are
81 expected TO tbe in in great quantities
Il next week Cherries both white, and
4 black have been in from CallfOrIl- a
4 for sOme time past. E,pnese 4 also are
fine and large; they bring Is to
I l7et Pinea pples at s. GEMS
4 each are in the rnarkea and apricots
! from the coast are Just beginning 70
/ Big Fruit Shipments.
II Speaking OF oranges, demons and baz
Tranas consumed in this community
] lone 1Ofe the leading commission men
II tOur house alone VIII snip in over
y so carloads OF oranges tEl4s year and
/ as there are 563 boxes IN each car lt
/ viii Ice seen that we furnish the peo-
4 pie Of salt Lake with practically. 3 s.
Il 600 boxes Of oranges in a year The
q Shipments tins year are larger than
4 usual We have shipped IN 60 caIlea IS
Of bananas. They run about 90
4 punches to the carload making p oo9
q punches that we have shipped in, or
-four shipments Of lemons will average
4 two caploads to the. month, the year
through. in the winter months the de-
mand falls off. and in the suunmer of
q course 1t is much heavie err
AS the house represented by the. gem
ii tleHlan speaking ships in about half the
\ fruit that comes from the 0uside, some
5ddear IS given Of the magnitude OF the
: fruit business of the city
There is no game Of any kind IN the
market at this season. and --ot a large
variety of fish. In fact the fish and
game men assert that they would
make money by closing UP entirely Tor
four months ana turn al their help out
on fun pay till the FAN season sets il
again. tBUt they are eOTnPeled TO keen
open to keep the rtTn Of the business
Trout from private fisheries are ID
the market, and sell an 40, cents a
pound Besides this there IS .sa mon,
halibut, sturgeon, shad, striped bass
TnackereI and. barracuda at the usual
prices.
Chickens are scaEce, Utah hrOhers
are bringing from 80 to 45 SCENTS each
4 Eastern 'broilers bring from 20 TO 5s3z
cents a pound. Hens bring from Is e
= II cents q pound and are in strong
demand.