Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-04
VEGETABLES ARE
too PLENTIFUL
PRICES DECLINE UNDER THE
LIMITED DEMAND
BUTTER MARKET MORE ACTIVE
Eggs Unchanged-Wa atermelons Crowd
Dealers--Big Potato Crop in
sght-Fish in Light Supply.
Poultry Cleaned Up


holdover vegetables and today being
holiday, produce dealers at the pub
lie market and jobbers on the street
found it necessary to move the goods
yesterday and prices went down. The
offerings of goods also were heavy
for Monday and retail buyers were
not free with orders because they do
not desire to carry forward to Wednes-
day more than is necessary
Green corn struck a slow gait and
jobbed as low as s1.45 a sack and
cucumbers in small boxes reached 30
cents.
Local tomatoes were slow and plen-
tiful at s1.O0QD1.25 in boxes packed for
shipping, but common to fair sold at
were W Hsai abundant liant and and sank NIX to to- IL t5c
a pound. Even lettuce was neglected
and sold slowly at 35 a 40c q crate.
MELONS ARE PLENTIFUL-Wa
termelons arrived in the market and
when the rush was over nine carloads
were reported unloaded This kept
dealers jumping and prices fell to a.
1Ac a pound and the holdover swas
large.
All classes of fruit except apricots
were abundant and plums went beg
ging in many varieties, while peaches
From Moneta, $50 crates Of straw
berries came that jobbed 90c 6Ds1 90,
while the 1000 crates from Tropics
was in good demand and the market
cleaned up materially, very few crates
going to the cannery.
About 200 crates of loganberries
IS crates of blackberries arrived that
jobbed at once at S0@90c crate.
BIG POTATO CROP-Figures are be-
that the potato crop of this season will
be very large. AS much of the land
that was overfiowed last year has come
into bearing this, season the output
no lxy tod nna
broker reports 1000 acres to draw
from and that the yield will be at
least 100000 sacks from that ground.
The northern Burbank will come on
this market in about ten days and the
lay down cost may be around $1.15 a
1.25 hundred:
think that, any one will have need to
grumble this year about the potato
market, as my Information is that the
yield will be large and prices Will rule
about the average. This time last year
this section was shipping potatoes
north and into Texas, but as the crop
cut ou WERE net tbat tSe %e
yet too green to ship this market
would now be filled with cheaper Bur-
Onions also remain weak with sill
verskins 50@60c a sack. Bermudas
are also weak at $1.10@1.20 a crate.
Local reds are In in small way Fig
ureS on the main crop show that I'll G
high prices of the past season caused
Nevada and Northern California
EGGS ARE STEADY-The egg quo
leaving % cents as the basis for ranch
and 10000 for eastern. Receipts of
local eggs were light and the trade
lacked volume. Eastern fresh Still are
being used and find a steady trade,
for when, well candled are preferred
BUTTER Is ACTIvE-Every dealer
seemed to have his hands full of or
ders for butter yesterday and a de-
cidedly stronger tone came as the de-
were limited for local use. as $4,000
pounds of eastern went into storage.
No coast came in and the stock was
cleaned up. Taking from storage In a
small way was reported by two deal
Cheese is going into storage freely,
but. receipts cannot be called excessive.
was principally eastern and went into
coolers. The market is steady and
from Indications changes in prices will
not follow for some time.
FISH AND POULTRY-All FISH was
scare yesterday, the light supply meet
ing the light demand.
Poultry did not come In large lots,
and the demand was active for the
restaurant and hotel trade, as business
will be suspended today and the stocks
OF hens, fryers ana proilers were We'll
taken up.
Receipts Of Produce
The Produce exchange reports the
following articles received on the
JULY / AND O.
Eggs cases .-..'.''''''.'...'. 1l9
Butter, pounds ............s.... 49,531
Cheese, pounds ...,'.......... 4O,735
Potatoes, Irish, sacks .......... 6S4
Potatoes, sweet, sacks ........ None
Onions, sacks, ..............,,. None
Beans, sacks ..s..,.'.''',.,... 1
Produce Quotations
The following prices rule In a jobbing
way In the Los Angeles market
BUTTER-Produce exchange quotations.
Fancy valley creamery, Soc. fancy coast
creamery, 45c dat; fancy dairy, 425k6D45c.
EGGS-Southern California ranch, can
died. 22c fiat; northern, lsc; eastern. 19@
CHEESE Gall per lb)-Northern. 100
lsc; Anchor Qargel, local. 14c; Young
America, 15ci handmade, l6c eastern
singles, 14@16c; eastern twins, l4@l5c;
eastern cheddars, 14c; eastern Stilton,
lac; eastern longhorns l4ql5c; eastern
daisies, laG15c; Swiss domestic 19c; Swiss
''IRSisS BEANS 1Cali per 100 lbs.)-Pink No. !.
a. .26Gl4.a6; No. ,, S4.0Oa4 .25; lima, No 1,
IS .O0f6 80; Lady Washington No. 1, IS 2bGp
4 8S; small Whito No, i, 1910; Garvanzas.
81 100: lentlls, $7.6008. 100.