The San Francisco call., 1909-08-03
Deciduous and Citrus Fruits

AS usual on the first day of the week, deliv-
cries Of the leading descriptions Of fresh fruits
were light and good demand for local and
for shipment steadied prices for attractive lots
in the early trade. Poor stock that had been
held over from last week dragged badly at weak
rates. however. sellers being willing to accept
any fair offer to effect clearances Of SUCH Crab
apples were in free supply and received little
attention, while choice Gravensteins and highly
colored red apples in four tier boxes continued
move freely at satisfactory prices. There yas
marked decrease in receipts of apric0ts. and
with the demand much better than before prices
for bulk fruit did better. and the Gamers were
unable to any supplies at the prices they
offering The Gamers raised their bid for
Bartlett pears and paid as high as $40 ton for
a few exceptionally fine lots. Peaches were
steadier and figs remained firm limited sup
plies. while melons and grapes were plentiful
and easy. Grapes piled high at the stores
and were hard to move, although offered at low
rates Malinda strawberries were higher there
berries stood about before. Citrus goods were
quiet and featureless.
Reports from Sebastopol. in Sonoma county.
say that the wineries are onering $1I ton for
wine grapes on 10 year contracts in that region.
The growers around Lodi being offered $6
according to current reports.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, - per chest; large
variestieS, S2.5004.
Raspberrfes- per chest.
Blackberries-$2d3.5 per chest.
Loganberries-$6 per chest.
HuckleberriNi-12iac per Id.
Applicability airavensteins. $1.25d1-50 pee
box; fancy reds. SIG %; common to choice
60@s5c; erabapples, 4O@50e for small and 75e@
81 for large boxes.
Pears~BartIetts. s1a1.25 per box for wrapped
stock: canning price, $S5GSI.oO per ton for No.
and s2OG27.5O for No ?.
Peaches-Small boxes. 40G 75c; lug boxes soc
GS1; baskets. 40665c.
Plums-40G75c per box or crate; prunes. 6o4
Soc per box or crate.
Nectarines- -s5cas1 per crate for red and cOG
75c for white
Aprieots-Crates and, small boxes 5O@75c; in
bulk. 2M21sc per h.
Figs-T5eM 81 % per box.
Nrrfn uno1 = nor hoy con
taloupes. $1.75G2 per crate; watermelons, 81 25M
. 80 per dozen.
Grapes-Seedless. 65dTJc per crate: muscat
81 per. crate; other varieties Goa zoe per crate
Citrus Fruits (per hox)-Valencia oranges.
So 25a3: grapefruit. s25Oms for seedless; lem
ons. $4.50m for fancy. S2.50u3-5O for choice
and $1.5Om2 for standard; lines. s5.a0@6.
Tropical Fruits-B Bananas 75ed $l.7s per bunen
for Hawaiian and $25Od3-oO for Central- Ameri-
can: pineapples. $1-50M2.50 per Dozen
Dried Fruit. Rafsfns. Nuts and Honey
report from Antioch says that the almond
crop of that section has been sold to Stockton
firm at about 15e and that the crop there will
be about ITO tons, which is less than that OF last
year.
aprieots. 9G10tsc: fancy moorpark. 111@12e;
peaches 4c for standards. ~ d415e for choice
and 506c for fancy; pears. 41a@11se, prunes.
size basis 2l4g2stc, with &c premium for the
large sizes.
New Fruits -Evaporated apples Tdsc; spri-
Sc; prunes 21a @2ssc. with 4 a 1ac premium for
40s and 81 a4dic premium for eos to 40s: figs
3n4lsc: pears. 515 d0I5e.
Raisins tf90s crop)-London layers-2 crown
90c: crown. 81; seeded. 41aM5lac: ThOmpsons
seedless. 34c for unbleaehed; seedIess suItanas.
23t 0Se: loose muscatels, &c for crowns. Sc for
crowns and 23zc for . crowns.
New raisins-Layers, clusteFs-6 crown. So 80:
: crown So: crown. S1.35; ordinary layers
crown. 95cMS1: > crown. 90M95c seeded 5L
G6c: seeGless sultanas. 3isM33tc: Th0mpson's
seedless 4c: loose muscstels. crown 4iSc:
) crown. 3ssc crown. 3He per ID.
Nuts-New almonds. nonpareils. t4isd15c:
IXL. 14M14iac ne plus ultra. 13M i3l5e: Drake.
lfM11isc: languedocs 10G101sc: hardshells 6ls
n 7c old walnuts lie per 10 for No. 1 soft.
shells. &c for No. do; hlberts. 12isG14c; pc
cans 15M17c-
Honey-Comb, 14a15c for water white and
10M12c per ID for amber: extracted lie for
water white and 6IaG7c for light amber; old.
caBded and dark amber, 4@4Iac per 10.
BeeSwax-27 < a. J29c per ID for light and 25G
26c for dark.