Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-06
POTATOES co
Up A NOTCH
ALL KINDS FlRMER AND STOCK
LIMITED
EGGS BEAR A FIRM TONE
Butter Situation Full of Interest and
Prices May Advanoe--FruIts Are
Plentiful and Varieties Many.
Onions Firmly Held
EGGS BEAR A FIRM TONE

is gone and the next shipment is
awaited by steamer that should arrive
today. Valley creamery Is also re-
ported in less volume and the demand
on shipping account shows such de-
crease that little is going into storage.
From these conditions the street is
discussing the question of an advance
to AN cents roll from as cents, the
opinion being general that possibly
before next Saturday and surely upon
that date this advance will be made.
Reports from coast points show that
the green feed is not so extensive as
during the rainy season and that the
effects of dry weather are noticed.
FIRMER EGG TONE-With light
receipts of local eggs, the egg quota
ton committee yesterday again fixed
the selling price of local ranch at %
cents Demand is steady and the warm
weather has had an effect on the conn
modify that makes close Gambling nee
essary. Eastern may now come on the
market, as the price is gradually
reaching the point where they can be
taken from storage.
CHEESE MARKED DOWN-Yester-
day the powers that control the local
cheese output sent all makes lower
by one cent. This makes Anchor IS
cents, Young American II cents and
handmade 1S cents. In the face of the
firmness in butter, the trade seems at
a loss why the mark-down came now,
unless stocks in storage are large and
eastern and. northern are liable to
crowd the situation. 1t is said the de-
mand is good, but the low price may
cause an Improvement.
POTATOES RULE ACTIVE-Old
potatoes are very scarce and they rule
on quality from $125 to $1.75, and every
pound is taken. The in-between sea-
son is now on and the scarcity, there
fore, is the greater. Two carloads of
northern are in and these are firm for
the new crop, from $1.75@2OO. Local
new crop is also coming in small lots.
The demand is taking everything in
sight.
Onions are also firm and silverskins
have gone to $500 a hundred. Ber-
mudas from Texas are fast passing and
command $1.75@2.00 a crate of fifty
pounds. Local reds are about due.
Local yellow sweet potatoes are firm
at $2.25 hundred and limited. No
northern are in the market at all.
FRUITS ARE PLENTIFUL-Up to
last night, since Saturday, five car
loads of apricots have come to this
market, filling the wants of dealers.
These jobbed from SOC to 75c box.
In strawberries the market was slow,
the 700 crates from Moneta sold at 40
Az cents a box, and 1000 trays from
Tropico at &c, some fancy 6@7 cents
box.
|, More cantaloupes ara in from Braley.
Thermal, Indio and Coachella and job
at $500 for special crates holding from
is to "a each. These are the fore
runners of the active season that is
now close at hand.
OF the 1000 boxes of cherries that
glutted the situation yesterday, reds
and blacks were on a par at SAG cents
in bulk and S5c@$1.00 in boxes.
Choice red currants were 60@65 cents
box and common 50@55 cents; black
berries are steady at 4@D5 cents: logan
berries cents and raspberries higher
at 12@15 cents a box.
In plums the Mikados We're $1.0001. .25
a box, the cherry plum indifferent at
rs cents a four basket crate and ely
man plums S5c@$1.00 in four-basket
crates.
Black figs from Mecca and Yuma
were ST. so a layer crate and white figs
from Burnett $3.50.
Bananas, owing to the quarantine,
are 4041a cents a pound and some
scarcer, with demand active.
Fancy Seeding grape fruit is $1.75
a box and the Padre variety $3.50. All
other citrus fruits are unchanged.
Hale's early peaches arrive freely
and job at 80 cents box. Demand is
steady. but receipts are too free to be
absorbed.
VEGETABLES PLENTIFUL - In
vegetables, attention is now on local
tomatoes that come in more freely, but
are held firm at $1.50G1.75 a box and
n
are jobbing at $1.75@2.OO a four-basket
crate.
Summersquash is slow at 40 cents a
box, string beans are 6a7 cents and
wax beans the same, with all peas at
5@6c.
Asparagus is 500 cents, cabbage. S5
@40 cents a sack; artichokes 50@75
cents a dozen; egg plant, 10 cents, and
lettuce scarce at 25@S5 cents dozen
punches
dozen.
FISH AND POULTRY-No more
fryers are expected from the east,
making the local line very firm. De-
mand for all poultry Is good, as the
crowds this week are taking all Of
fered Old hens also are wanted.
In fish, barracuda was the only kind
In large supply and halibut and small
kinds were scarce and wanted. North
ern fish also were scarce and crabs, as
usual, were abundant.
Receipts of Produce
The produce exchange reports the
following articles received on the date
June and A.
Eggs. cases .............,,,..,,......, 305 |
Butter, pounds ''''''''''''''''''''''''. 80 O66 |
cheese, pounds ........s',,..,'.,.,... b,630 |
Pota toes, Irish. sacks .,,....,.,....,.. 124 |
Potatoes sweet ,ascks .......,....... none
Onions, sacks .....,..,,,,,,,,,..,.,.... .5
Beans, sacks .........,..,..,,..,,...... none
Local Produce Prices
The following prices rule In a jobblng
way in the Los Angeles market: