Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-26
WATERMELONS
FROM MEXICO
FIRST SHIPMENT COMES TO
Los ANGELES
MORE COAST BUTTER IS DUE
Market Is Firm for All Makes-Eggs
Well supported-onons More
PlentlfuI-New Potatoes
Crowd the Trade
MORE COAST BUTTER is DUE

| From Sonora, Old Mexico have the first
watermelons and canteloupes Of the season been
brought to Los Angeles by the carload. This
consignment came yesterday to the Los AM
Beles Produce company and is the original
shipment Of that nature from that section TO
como to his market. The fruit was in splen-
did condition and the watormelons were jobbed
at 5000 dozen and retailed at 65d75c each.
| Tho canteloupes, In crates holding from IL to
| Is each, were jobbed at SO. 90 a crate. The de-
mand was reported good and the firm reports
several more carloads the road
In this week SO far Q carloads Of bananas
are reported received, with the fruit only in
fair shape, as much is cast away and peddlers
are busy with the overripe stuff The fancy
are quoted at cents a pound, but to move
| the ripe punches, 2Isd13I5c pound Is conceded.
| Apricots are weaker. at &c pound, ship
ments are large from many points.
| Cherries being sent to Gamers yester-
day, as 1850 boxes came in. Blacks and reds
| jobbed 9OcGst25 n box and SGDl0c in bulk;
whites 6oG75c, and in bulk, 6d7c. Royal AIMS
| 90c@n25 The market not over active
and many went to the cannery.
Cherry plums were plentiful and slow at
are down to 12c a box and from Orange 15c,
big decline, Blackberries are plentiful at
| case box
Moneta, the bulk sold 41ad5c a box, and the
1900 trays from Tropico were 5d6c box The
surplus, to ease the market, went to the can
merry.
| Pineapples from Cuba the Spanish reds,
are still on the market in large quantity and
job at sSs5@450 in crates Of 80 to 46 each.
/
BUTTER RULES FIRM.-Ar valley cream
| cry is reported steady at 45c a roll and ship
| ping to many outside points Of the best The
| steamer with coast dairy and creamery was
due yesterday, the shipment coming the
market today. Demand is steady and re-
ceipts from the valley are less the market is
reported carrying a hrmer tone. Coast dairy
Is 42lac, and coast and valley creamery each
| 45c.
cheese is firm and the market is not over
crowded Northern rules 13Q15c eastern
steady, and local output going into consump-
| tion very fast.
EGGS UNCHANGED on the receipts
of eggs, the egg quotation committee yesterday
| on the produce exchange fit to fix the sell
ing price of local ranch at q cents and north
| ern at 10 cents. Demand Is good all
counts, and the country does not report any
| large surplus. If the receipts Of old hens In
| the poultry line Is any criterion the eply pro-
duction should soon shaw a decline. Northern
are sold purely their merits and the price
| OF locals is too low to permit eastern to come
| POTATOES AND ONIONS.-some dealers
report that the receipts of new potatoes, both
| Rose and Burbanks is increasing so fast that
| the effect is noted old potatoes Still the
fact is the demand for old potatoes is active
and that some classes Of consumers still prefer
| the goods. Receipts of old spuds in this week
| have shown decrease. New crop potatoes are
quoted largely at 1.3511.5O a hundred
In onions an easier feeling is noted. as
silverskins have dropped to ~ cents and are
plentiful. Texas Bermudas still fill the local
gaps and reported steady at s1.75 crate of
81 pounds. The crop of reds and Danvers now
1
dition and that the former should appear in
the middle of next month and the latter few
weeks later.
| VEGETABLES PLENTIFUL.-The vegetable
market was crowded with produce yesterday
and lettuce Jobbed at 1O915c dozen. radishes,
12lac dozen, cucumbers from the desert 81 80
Oils a dozen and cabbage slow at 30G4Oc a
| sack.
| Fresh peas steady at SC n pound.
String and beans &c. and rhubarb 75GS5c
a box of 40 pounds.
| Mexican tomatoes the feature In that
article and steady only at S150 a crate of
| 90 pounds. Floridas overripe and slow and
hardly quoted, but bring S150d2 90 a crate
when prime Few locals appear and these are
not fully matured and slow at s1.2591 50 pack
ing box. Asparagus is weaker at S91Oc a
pound.
FISH AND POULTRY.-The fish market was
short yesterday local barracuda and halibut
and northern striped bass. All other kinds were
sufficient to meet requirements. Crabs were
plentiful and steady.
| In poultry many old hens are being received
F'ryers and broilers are in good supply AS a
whole the market is steady and absorbing the
receipts.