The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19
SAL ES OF FRUIT
UNUSUALLY BIG
More Is Being Sold This Season Than
Ever Before.
PRUNES PROVE POPULAR
GROWERS MAKING EFFORTS TO
PUSH CONSUMPTION.

Retailers say that more fruit is being
sold. and consequently presumably eaten,
this year than at at any other season for
some time. The feature of the markets
the past week, or rather the past fort
night, has been California oranges, and
the coming week viii tell the same story.
Not only have orange sales been unusual
~ large, but with grape fruit the same
has been true. The oranges are of re-
markably good quality, report retailers.
and are selling at prices ranging from as
low as l2l2 cents per dozen for the smaller
variety up to the large thin skinned kind
at 90 cents.
Prunes, the lowly prunes. have been a
strong bidder for popularity on the fruit
market Tor several weeks past. This is
the result largely dealers say, of a united
move on the part of California growers
to push their product 70 the front This
mas been undertaken on the coast in the
form of campaign of education deal
ers consenting, for the purpose of help
i4S the industry. and introducing prunes
nfere generally, to handle them at little or
Fish in great variety and at fair prices
was on sale yesterday There was little
change in quotations in the dressed meat
or fish stalls
Yesterdays retail quotations:
Meats.
Beef 15c to 25c per pound. Veal. prime.
rec to nc Mutton 121zc to 1712c. Pork,
lamb choos, 15c to 25c. Jack rabbits, 15e
each Spring lamb, Sl.JO to 500 per quar-
Fish.
Salt Goldfish. 15c a pound: homeless cod
Isn, pound boxes, 35c each. Large mack
ereI; 35c each; small mackerel l5c each.
I1oiIdhd herring, 81 eachi kits, $l.l5 each
Idaho trout, soc pound Salmon, 171aG2Oc
a pound Halibut, 15c a pound Striped
bass. zoe pound Whitefish zoe uer DoIind.
Soles and founders. 12rBc pound. Catfish
l9c per pound. Perch 121Zc per pound.
S9IIneIts, l6c per sound Fresh eonfish,
Tr,T,g COLI 10.
pound oysters. extra select, % can, 6UC
per quart; New York counts. roc d can;
smoked salmon, zoe Der pound. Bloaters,
&c each Finnan haddies, 171ac per pound.
1 OaIIIornla crabs. 25G to zoe each Pom
PIANO 4Oc per pound Red snappcrs, 2Oc
per pound Sturgeon, lac per pound
Poultry.
Hens. dressed. 1SG2Oc per pound. Spring
chickens, 2Oc per pound. Turkeys, CSC per
pound Broilers, DC per pound
Dairy Products.
Butter, creamery. 8oc per pound. Eggs,
-Zc 10 29c per dozen Cheese, Utah cream,
20c per pound: eastern. 20c: limDurgeT. 25c; |
imported Swiss, 40c brick 2Jc. Honey,
comb, loo box; strained 25c per pint.
Fruits.
Cranberries, 1Oc per quart. Fresh pine
apples. Soc to SOC each Lemons I5c 10 soc
per dozen. Oranges IjC TO soc per dozen.
Grape fruit. TIC to Toe each. California
black figs, 10 cents per pound: Turkish
figs, per basket, 15c; Turkish fiss, extra
fine, 23c per pound Prunes. pounds for
Zoe and pounds for 25c- EVapOrdted ap~
pTlcoJs, : pounds Tor 22c; peaches.
pounds for 25c; pears. 1Jc per pound. |
Fresh apples, DC to zoe per peck. Ba-
nanas, l5c to SOC per dozen. CocoanUts,
10 cents each. Dates. 15c per package.
Stupped dates. 25c per box.
Vegetables.
Turnips. zoe peck. Carrots, 2Jc peck.
Beets, zoe peck. Spinach, 4 pounds Tor
25c. CauliflOwer. l5c per pound. Cab /
bage, &C per pound. Oyster plant. /
punches for Zoe Potatoes soc per bushel-
Sweet potatoes. D pounds Tor 3 cents
Celery, 1Oc Il bunch ParsniDS. 2Oc
peck. Dry onions pounds for z5c; green
onions. 2 lunches for > cents. Radishes. !
&C per bunch. California and Utah let
tuce. sc per bunch. ArtichOkes, 10c each.
ChickoTy- sc per bunch Rhubarb, 1Oc |
per pound. Tomatoes. 23c per pound. |