The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-13
SELECT WHAT'S GOOD
FOR SUNDAY DINNER
Market Row Is Overburdened
With the Good Things of
the Season.
ALL KINDS OF BERRIES
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Another Carload of CantaIOupes
Reaches Salt Lake; Mar
ket Novelties.

The surprise of the day OH Market
row Friday was the return OF fresh
luscious strawberries. after week Of
berries OF poor quality. The berries came
from Alpine. near the mouth Of American
Fork canyon. their ripening being some-
what delayed by the cold breezes from
the mountains. The berries sold readily
at 16c per box. Many OF the hotels and
restaurants bought several cases of the
berries each.
price and arc now selling at two quarts
FOR 2bc, The price OF raspberries still re-
mans ma, two boxes for Csc. but the quality
ent week and the fore part OF next week.
raspberries are at their best Red cur
rants also are selling at the same hg
ures OF the last three days, namely lDc
a box or three boxes for a quarter. More
black English currants are arriving on
the market, but they seem 10 get no fur
ther They are selling at 1oc a box, No
the. row Friday, but few white ones
selling at lHc quart were on hand dur
Ing the early part OF the, day, Cherries
the, present week. Their price continues
TO drop. although not uniformly along the
row; the change depending more or less as
to the rate at which the dealer purchased
from the wholesaler.
The best figures on red cherries was
12tc pound and on black cherries 15c
:, pound, The highest figures asked were
gQc and 2bc. The only merchant who has
displayed huckleberries along the row
during the present week appears 10 be
having an extremely hard time 10 get rid
OF them They are still offered of 20c
q pound. Dewberries are again changing
their price. the rates now being 10c and
l2sc per box
been on the row there were plenty on
hand to last through the day. The price
still remains the same, being zoe
pound.
One of the commission houses received
n consignment OF green tomatoes. and
the retailers who took these were COM
PEELED to reduce the price, going down
as low as l6c per pound.
A slight change In the price OF potatoes
was noted in some of the booths. al
though the figures were by no means uni
form The best rate was eight pounds
for 25c. others selling seven pounds for
2bc.
The wholesale price of Utah cabbage
dropped from &c n pound to s3c a pound.
but the retail price, be pound, remained
unaffected.
Cucumbers vary In price according TO
quality. the poorer grades selling three
for loc. and the better ones going at 10c
apiece.
Peas are now selling at 25c peck. the
former price being SOC for the same guam
tity,
Peppers are selling all the way from
20 to 4Oc pound,
Some nice looking peaches were Of
fered In some OF the stores Friday, Their
price two pounds for 25c, is a reduc-
tion on the figure which has been asked
for the past week
Lines are wholesating at the rate of
50 per 100. and grape fruit though nearly
out OF season sells for 12ic apiece,
Another carload OF canteloupes arrived
Friday morning, The price of the melon
Is Just little higher than II has been
for the last few days being 125c apiece.
This is the same figure quoted previously
for the last few days. being 12oc apiece.
This is the same figure quoted previously,
but the size OF the melon is different
causing the change.
Car load lots OF bananas and canta-
loupes are expected TO arrive today