Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-25
NORTHERN BUTTER
RULES STEADY
COAST RECEIPTS ARE NOW
MORE LIMITED
LOCAL EGGS ARE UNCHANGED
Receipts Of Northern Eggs Large.
Fancy Potatoes Scarce-onions
Actlve-Fresh Fruit PIenti-
fuI-Fish Scarce
LOCAL EGGS ARE UNCHANGED

| IuI-FISH oCdTCS
Whether butter will be weaker and
strike an open quotation of 40 cents a
roll of two pounds for valley creamery
| is mooted quotation. On Saturday
the butter board still held to the price
of 45 cents a roll, but 1t was reported
on the street yesterday that the inde-
pendent butter dealers and other but
| ter men were selling at 40 cents. The
demand is reported only fair and that
shipping is slow. This has caused
much butter to go into storage at
present prices that are regarded as
excessive for such a purpose. In last
week 1t Is said the amount stored
'equaled fully $4,000 pounds a day. This
figure is not verified, but is approx
mately correst, as the surplus was large
each day.
Coast dairy and creamery came in
yesterday by steamer. OF the 100 cases
reported received all practically went
in consumption at once. Los Angeles
is getting practically all of the coast
butter. This jobs at 371a@40 cents a
roll and Is giving the valley creamery
close run because the difference in
quality just now, say butter experts, is
hardly perceptible.
NORTHERN BUTTER NEWS-Re-
ports from San Francisco say that up
to the close of last week the receipts
of butter were heavy and that stocks
are light for this time of the year. 1t
is also said that the local demand is
free, as it seems fairly we'll settled that
lower prices in that market are not in
sight for some time to come.
Telegraphic advices from San Fran
cisco to The Herald last night say that
fancy creamery Is 20 cents; seconds,
1Sc; fancy dairy, 1Sc; seconds, 171ac
The reports further say that the north
and Los Angeles are still buying, al
though in small quantities. The noun
tain territory Is drawing heavily on
the market, being shut off from eastern
supplies by the unprecedented advance
there. Heavy orders for pickle and
canned stock for shipping are being
filled. There has been some buying of
solid pack for eastern shipment, but
| just how much went is not ascertained,
as there Is a suspicion that instead of
going east at least some of 1t went to
| the coolers
In the face of this movement there is
little left out of the $50, 900 pounds or
slightly more surplus not used in San
Francisco to put into storage and with
| April coming to an end, even the fact
that this is plainly to be a long season
| is beginning to make some dealers lose
no opportunity to send what they can
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| sell outside Of regular customers whose
| trade they must control unless they
secure a neat premium over the quota
| tions on almost everything that comes
from a creamery.
Creamery extras have been quoted
| all week at 1Sc but with little selling
at less than a cent to a cent and half
premium. With this as the situation
| as regards the quotation and selling
price there is considerable apprehen-
sion of those who cannot buy what
they want on the street going to the
country and offer premiums to ship
pers and upset things generally, which
will mean that the market must be
quoted higher or houses are likely to
lose their regular shippers.
Receipts have been confined to the
coast region north of San Francisco.
The valley butter about all goes to
Los Angeles. Humboldt receipts have
been liberal as were also those from
Del Norte and the Oregon coast. The
quality generally rules good
EGGS STEADY-On the produce ex-
change yesterday the egg quotation
committee again fixed the selling price
of California ranch eggs at zoe and 1Sc
for northern. The receipts of locals
are not heavy, and If it were not for
northern, that are classed by them
selves, the local egg would sell at
higher rate. The market seems we'll
supported. but number of dealers
think the market will go shade lower,
being influenced by the northern eggs.
FANCY SPUDS SCARE-Old pota-
toes are becoming scarcer and Color
ados and Utahs, with a few Nevadas,
are the sole reliance. Demand Is active
and fancy pototoes. that grade, come
near touching the SO price. Shipping
is also steady. The receipts are heavy,
showing that the new crop as yet cuts
but little figure. New pototoes are
coming in more freely and are in
creasing in size but they still hover
around 3q4c a pound.
All onions are scarce. The poorest
go at 51ac and the Australian browns
above &c. The latter are coming in
by Wolf & Son, who have their second
carload.
MORE CHERRIES COME-Yester-
day about 200 boxes of cherries came
from the north by express Some are
reported injured by the recent rains.
Whites sold at 81 box of ten pounds;
Guignes $l.25Q1.50. and black Tartar
ians, $1,75. In bulk they jobbed at
12hc fiat
Strawberries were i'm good demand
and were not In large supply. Extra
fancy Tropicos were firm at 100l2c a
box; Gardenas and Monetas, 7pSc. |
Shipping demand active.
Blackberries are just coming in and
are a luxury at Ice a box and retail
two boxes S5c Raspberries are scarce
and SOC box.
Bananas are scarce and quoted &c
fiat although common stock is 31hr