The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-08
TIME To SECURE
FRUIT At HAND
Within Ten Days Peaches Will
Be Best in Quality, Low
est in Price.
SUGAR SOARING IN
UNPRECEDENTED MANNER
Price at Present Is the Highest
Known in City During Last
Twenty Years.

Tho Salt Lake housewife who contem-
plates canning. preserving or picking
peaches, tomatoes. small onions or giriin
cucumbers, will do we'll 10 get her sup
ply within the next ten days or two
weeks.
Not only Will these fruits and vegetables
be at their best. but the price will be
as low as may be expected this season,
There has been a rather free arrival
of peaches on the market during the last
few days, but the best OF the peach sea-
son will not open for few days and will
be in full blast for about two weeks,
weather conditions being favora BILE. At
the present time there is a fairly good
supply of peaches being received from
counties, The price asked by some OF
the retail dealers is rather high for
putting up preserves a number OF
people arc getting the habit of visiting
the market in Sscond West street and
making their purchases there. They
claim that white there Is no little incOn-
venience attached 10 such a trip. such
as the carly hour, the street car fare and
homo. 1t pays them for the trouble, One
morning this week a man whose wife
conducts a boarding house on the east
side visited the market and made pur-
chases which no said warranted him In
paying an eXpressman 10 haul them 10
his home.
Peaches Still High.
During the last two or three days a
number of express shipments OF peaches
have arrived from Ogden: The quality Of
asked. 40 cents per box is higher than
the price will be within a week
tomatoes will be at their best in the
next two weeks If the present warm
Shrr oil
with frost come the crop will be practl-
caliy ruined. Tic carly crop OF tomatoes
Was held at a price SO high that it was
Ihlnk OF putting up her winter supply.
The promise is made that the price Of
.ne late crop will be at least as low
VIII be OF high standard The princl-
pal supply 10 the Salt Lake market will
come from the gardens of Weber, Davis
and Salt Lake counties. While no prices
are promised, it is expected that within
the next ten DAYS or two weeks toma-
toes Will be selling in Salt Lake City at
price however. will depend largely on
inc method OF buying. II they are Sc
cured from the grower they will be less
by from 10 to 40 per cent than II they
less the order is placed with the latter
several days before with the understand
Ing that he Is to send them at the time
that he thinks the price Is the lowest.
Good Time for Onions.
Picklipg onions, the little white ones |
and Eirkins. are now at their best and
VIII continue SO for at least two weeks |
with good weather conditions. The sup
ply. however. does not meet The de- |
mand, with the result that the price is !
little higher than last year. The little !
onions may he purchased for 75 cents per
peck and the gcrkns for so cents per
hundred.
During the week there has been but |
few changes In prices. Tomatoes and |
peaches show a slight drop. while meat, |
fsh and poultry remain the same |
Grapes have dropped In price and are |
now selling at from three pounds for % |
cents to ]o cents per pound, the latter !
price being asked for the fancy kind
Egg plants have also dropped in price |
and are now quoted at from 10 10 % |
cents each,
During the week there has been sharp |
advance in tho price of sugar. the quo |
taiions yesterday, $3.50 for cane and |
sbo5 for beet, being tho highest prices |
quoted in this city In over twenty years. |
The high prices are alleged 10 be due 10 |
= shortage In the cane and beet crops in |
Europe and Cuba