The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-27
NOW IS BEST TIME
TO BUY POTATOES
Indications Are That Price
VIII Go Higher at an
Early Date.
CROP RATHER SHORT
Big Demand in East for Su-
perior Quality of Utah
Product.
CROP RATHER SHORT

I'd uUs "up SAINIbS " IdS VI a Niut-l
supply OF potatoes would do well 10
| make their purchases within the next
ten days or two weeks. Not that the |
price is going TO be low, IL has been
in some OF the recent years but that the |
prospects arc that II Will be higher with |
In the next few months than II has been
for II long. time. Just AZ the present
their "spuds" and many or them are
bringing their product 10 the market in
wagon load lots. The price varies; some
bushcl. while in some cases they have
been offered as low as 20 cents per
bushcl. An average price, would be about
! however, tho purchaser should be sure OF
] the weight, whether they arc purchas-
Ing from a retail dealer, farmer or a
peddler. Tho standard weight of pota
| toes Is so pounds to a bushcl; this is the
weight that is recognized In Utah.
The prcsent and what promises to ne
| Salt Lake City is due 10 two causes;
first the potato crop In this state Is far
below. normal this year, Lack Of water.
part OF the season are said TO be the
principal reasons. This. coupled With the
land in Utah that was formerly planted
| TO potatoes are now being planted i'll
sugar beets Is making some difference.
Second the Utah potato is In demand 1dss, In
! some Of them claim that they can get
better price In the east than they can
| ScI III the nome market. FHtcFn years
ago a Utah man went into the cafe OF
| the Maxwell hotel, in Nashville, Tenn.
He asked the walter IL he had any good
potatoes, The waiter replied Yes, sab;
was ever served on any table in the
/ world. De potatoes dat we serve To you
Utah is. but day arc. sure de finest po
tatoes dat we ever had i'm dis house"
Tho Utah man ordered a double portion
for himself and his Nashville friend and
q ho of he
| marked Those are the finest potatoes
that have ever enjoyed
For the last five or six years Greeley,
Colo, has held the center OF the stage
as potato producing point Judicious
advertising. dining car service, and few
other influences have brought the Gree
| Icy potato very much TO the front through
out the country. This year there will be
| thousands of bushels OF northern Utah
and southern Idaho potatoes sent out of
Greeley as Greeley potatoes, Carload after
| carload OF Idaho and Utah potatoes have
been sent 10 Greeley and Will be shipped
| from that point,
trct OF Idaho IS the largest this year
that has ever been raised In that state
1t is estimated that not less than $500
I will be shipped from that district The
greater part Of the crop VIII go 10 the
east for the simple reason that the grow
ors can get a better price there than
they can get at home. An average Of at
least two carloads OF potatoes are oefng
shipped daily from Cache county for no
other reason than that the growers say
| that they can get a better price In the
cast than they can get AT home.
Within the next week or Ten days
farmers will he coming to salt Lake CITY
from Weber, Davis. Salt Lake and Utah
counties with wagonloads of potatoes
They will offer them at a price that
promises to be as low as they will be
days the farmers will pit their pota-
| toes and will hold them for a raise IN
| the early months OF next year This
raise may and may not come, but accord
| ing TO wholesale dealers the price Of po-
tatoes will be as low within the next
week or ten days as 1t Will be until the
new crop comes in next summer
There have been but few changes on
the local market during the last week.
Meat prices remain unchanged and the
| same is true OF -four. grain. sugar, tish
from last week are in vegetables and
| fruits. and they are but slight.
Local dealers quote the following
| prices
Wholesale Retail.
Butter creamery ....,-s .33 40
Butter ranch ..,.-...,.-.. ..-"- Sog"oc
Wholesale Retail
l'Utah. per lb. -lo1 20 |
Swiss (domestIc), per lb.. % 80
New York cream; per lb. .SS so
Camembert, dozen 400 500
I.imberger. per lb..,..,.,.. 10 rs
Jldam. dozen ..-->.-s.,..- 800 -;
Bismarck. brick ........... .25 80 |
Wholesale. Retail.
Fresh ranch eggs, dozen. 40
Case eggs. dozen ,.....---. ,35
Wholesale Retail
Apples, California. per ID, .os ,os Ia
Apples, Utah, per lb-es,-. ,O3 .Of |
| Retail. |
Rananas 206u3Oc |
Figs 80. :. .....-.........-...... 35c
Grapefruit each ..-...,, ,,.-.-.,.....: Ice
Tapss Grapss. GSnco4G PeT I9 per basket sSe
| Lemons. per dozen .......,....-- 20 q i0c |
Oranges, per dozen '.''.''.'.-. ag ,2o@ooc |
Plums. per bushel .-..-,--,.. .$l25@l 70 |
Peaches, per busbel .......... .Sl75@2.50 |
Pears, per bushel -.,......-, ,sl,5092..5
Fish,
Wholesale. Retail
| Barracuda, per lb..,.S III S .17s
Black bass. per 10. .,..,.., .25 80 |
Catfish. per lb.,.,..,..,..- IL .l5 |
Carp. per lb........-....., 90 .0s |
Goldfish, per 10. ..,-..-,,.-. .OS rs !
F,ioundcrs: per. lb......-,. II .l5
King nsh. per lb,.--.....,. IL -15
Herring, per b....,....... ,O9 .12s
IIalIbut, per lb.....,...-.. % .12h
Fresh mackerel. per lb.,-. II 20 |
Prawns, per lb. b.,-.-...... 10 30
Perch. per lb..,...,..,... IL 10
Rock cod, per lb- ..,.-...-, IL rs
Fresh salmon. per lb..-,-.- Ia 20
silver smets, per lb.,,.,. II Ia
Sea bass. per lb.,,s-.,... .12 .17S
Iobsters. per lb........... .32 .45
Shad per lb- ....,-,,. .0T .l2A
Smells (Cal-) per lb.-...,. .l5 30
Soles. per lb.,..,,-,..,.. IL .t5 |
Brook trout. each ........- ,1.' 10 |
Tom cod. per lb-.......... ,12 Is
Fresh Shrimps, per lb. .-,... 20 .25
Sturgeon, per lbe..,.,.-,,. IL 20
Salmon trout. per lb.,..... go 90
Striped bass per lb.....-- 20 20
Flour,
Wholesale. Retail.
High patent. Utah, cwt..S 30 S2.35
Straight grade. Utah. cwt 1.25 go
Bakers No. l, per cwt..,. 1.s5 80
Hay and Grain,
Wholesale. Retail.
Alfalfa. per ion.,.-,..-..sl 90
Timothy, per ton. ......-.. 1850 49,.
Timothy per cwt. 80, 30
Alfalfa. per cWt.,-,.-s.,. -, 80