The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-03-12
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Latest Quotations N i,e Portland
Market
Complete MARKET Reports Corrected
Each Day Giving The Wholesale
Prices Of Commodities. Farm
Produce, and Vegetables.

PORTLAND. March 10. = Further
shipments Of California butter to this
market are expected within . few
days, and II is quite proabable that
local prices will be put down this
week in order 10 meet the competi-
ton from the South. This Is the sea-
son Of flush production In California,
and II Is always few weeks earlier
than that Of Oregon. AS yet there 10
no serious accumulation Of Oregon
stocks here, but production Is steadily
increasing and the necessity Of low
cr price Is generally felt in the trade
Grain, Flour, Feed.
Wheat--club, BE; Valley. BIC;
bluestcm, 84c; red Russian, 8Oc.
oats--Producers' prices: White,
$2S; gray, s26@1.
flour--Hard wheat, patent, N80;
straight, 500; graham. $3.50; rye, sS;
whole wheat flour, S4.4s; Dakota
s64oG6.6o; Eastern rye, 5000;
Pillsburg. 81; Corvallis, $40
Rye-Si.40 per cwt.
Corn--Whole, $3.50; cracked
| $3.50 per ton.
Hay-Wholesalc selling prices
Valley timothy, $i7@is; Eastern
Oregon, s20@2l; clover $l4@ls
alfalfa. si2@i3.
Grain bags--D Domestic, BIC; Cal
cutta, &c.
Millfeed--City bran. $3.50; coun
try bran. $3.50; city shorts. $40
country shorts, S27; chop, s22; mid
diings, $3osO,
Bariey-Produccrs' prices: Brewing
$3.50; feed, S27; rolled, $28@D
Buckwheat--$36 per ton.
| Cereal Foods-Rolled oats, cream
o0-ib. sacks, 81; lower grade, $3.50
oatmeal, steel cut, 4s-ib, sacks, IS
o-lb. sacks, $4.2s per bale; oatmea
(ground), 4s-ib. sacks, $50 per bar
rel; o.ib. sacks. s4.00 per bale; spill
peas, $3.50 per i00-ib. sacks; 2s-lb
boxes. $l.2s per box pastry flour
i0-lb. sacks, $2.7s per bale.
\ Fresh Meats and Fish.
Observation-Disclosures Bay, per gal
Ion, SIPS; per sack. $3.50; Tok'
Point, SLIGO per 100; olympias az
lbs.), Sc; Olympias. per gallon, $2.2s
Fresh Meats-veal. fancy, 100 lbs.
averag, o6oic; 100 to $50 lbs, ga
SIC b.; large and coarse. 5@-c; hogs
fancy block, 7@7hc; heavies, 6@7c
beef, bulls, 3i@4c; cows, 4@sc
steers, slc@6c; muttons, medium
size. lo@iic; large and coarse, S@Sc
Clams--Little neck, per box, $3.50
razor clans, $500 per box.
Fish--Halibut, &c; black cod, &c
black bass, per h., zoe; striped bass
l3c; smelt, 7c; herring, She; founders
&c; catfish, lie; shrimp. l0c; perch
7c; sturgeon, l2ac; sea trout, i8c; ton
cod, l0c; salmon, silversides, &c
steelheads, lie; chinooks, l2c ID.
Holsters, 25c ID.
| Fruit.
| Domestic Fruits -- Apples, fancy
| $l7s@2.S0 box; common to good, s
@l.sO box; pears. $i.7s@20O box
cranberries, $4,000 per barrel.
Dried Fruits--Apples, o@l0S pc
pound; apricots, 27@29c; peaches, /
@l3c; pears, ili@l4c; Italian prune'
s@6c; California igs, white, in sacks
7ac per pound; black, 6@7c; bricks
7sc@$2,2s per box; Smyrna, l6@i7a
per pound; dates, Persian, 6a@7c pc
pound.
Tropical Fruits-Lemons, $1,000
$50 box; lines, 75c per 100; oranges
new navels, $l.7s@2,s0 box; grape
fruit, $3.sO@40O box; bananas, s
b.; Grated. She lb.; tangcrines, $l.4O(
l.50 box; pineapples, $4@s dozen.
Groceries, Provisions. Etc.
Sugar (sack basis)-D. G., $50.
Xxx, $5,4s; beets, $s.4s; Golden {
$3.50; extra c, $5.l5; powdered, $s.S(
boxes, ssc cwt advance over sac
oasis; fruit or berry sugar, $50
boxes. 55c cwt advance over sac
! basis (less ic IL pai dior in Is days
8 Coffee--Mocha, 24@2Sc; Jaw
! ! fancy, 2s@2Sc; Java, good, 2O@24'
Java, ordinary, l7@2oc; Costa Ric'
, fancy, l8@20c; Costa Rica, good,
! @iSc; Arbuckle, $l663 cwt.; Liol
$is.SS cwt,; Colombia coffee, l4c lb