Arizona republican., 1906-06-24

crop it is also encouragaging that the market will this year insure a higher price than last for the product. In California the crop is light and on the eastern coast 1t is light. Last year the price paid the association was cents a pound. All of it was taken by the National Biscuit company, which con cern controls this market. The crop this year would have been even great CT than it is had not the climatic con ditions of the gathering season been poor. The rains of spring blighted nearly all of the mesquite blossoms.
 which ruined that source of supply.
 Aside from the appearance of the first lot of honey on the market the remarkable sale of ripe bananas yester- dayin Phoenix was the unusual event of the week end. One hundred punches
 were sold to the local dealers and nearly all of this amount was disposed of to the trade. On account of the heat it is not likely that another shipment will be made by the commission men. The fruit was of fair quality and sold at retail as low as ten cents a dozen. A shipment of lemons which reached the city Friday is of better oualitv than those formerly offered and the wholesale price was raised from S5.25 tO $5.50 a box. The price per dozen
 made by the Walter Hill company is 25 cents. which will force the local dealers to raise the price above that of last week and they will probably sell for the week at 30 cents a dozen.
 The middle of the week a shipment of
 valencia oranges is expected, to sell from $500 to $5.5O a box
 The coming week will see the cante- loupe market well supplied and all , will be about the tenth of the month 1 before the car load shipments will be begun. Tomorrow what can be had of the fruit for the local trade will be of Tered at S2.50 crate or sixty cents a dozen and by the last of the week if the growing weather continues, the prices will probably be dropped to $175 or $2-0O a crate. The watermeI-
 ons brought in by the growers for the past two days were in large enough
 quantities to make up two cars which were shipped to the coast last night over the southern route The prices remain the same, $20 a ton.
 All green vegetables are scarce with the exception of squash and cucum-
 bers- Home tomatoes will begin to come In tomorrow and the conmissioy7 houses will pay $2 a crate which will probably make the prices of the deal CTS to the retail trade range from 10 cents pound up. All the home pota toes are gone. Good, firm heads of cabbage are to be had at cents a pound.
 Butter and eggs have not changed during the week. although there was an increased supply of ranch butter brought to the market yesterday Many dealers took it in trade at the retail price of 20 cents a pound. Creamery still holds at 25 cents, 20 cents to deal CTS and eggs at 20 cents a dozen.
 When mention was made in the last report that the wheat and barley crop of the valley would be light. expIana- uon should have been made of the fact that this did not apply to the yield per acre. There was less acreage than any year for several years past, but the yield per acre is phenomenal. Barley still remains at $1.1O: wheat at $40; hay, alfalfa loose, $6.5O; baled s7.OO per ton. These prices are paid to the rancher, while the dealers are receiving S9OO ton for wheat, oat or alfalfa bailed hay and sS.5O for mixed baled.