The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-09-18
hops SHIPPED
TO THE EAST
Messrs. McNeff md Guy Grafton
Send. Out Carrots Over the
Northern Pacific
FRUIT FREICHTACE LIGHT
ACCORDING TO RAILROADS

port That From Their Stand
point the Condiions Are Ex-
cellent and Improving
! Shipping of hops of this seasons
,crop has been undertaken. Already
Swo carloads have gone out for east
ern markets. one shipped by NcNen
Bros and the other by Gny Grafton.
No announcement has been made
here. a. yet, regarding prices but the
probability is that the figure will be
about that quoted in Oregon. which
1s seventeen and seventeen and half
cents pound. Picking Is proceeding
without interruption in practically all
the yards and the bulh~of the grow
ers expect to be throu with the
harvest by the time of the3 tate fair.
Messrs. Payne q McManis, Who have
d yard in the Ahtanum, will not be-
next Monday. They expect to put
as large a crew as they can engage
into the work and clean up in short
order Elsewhere in this issue will be
found brief paragraph from Auro-
70. Ore, saying that an alleged sale
there of IS cents has been called on.
Business is light now, in the fruit
buansss, according to the railroads
The soft fruit has all been disposed
of and the late apple business has
not been undertaken to any great ex-
tent So far as the railroads are con-
cerned, the apple business, though it
is sauoh mere extensive than is the
business In soft fruits, calls for no
great hustle, speaking comparatively
and neither does 1t demand the rush
work in the orchards. OF course,
carloads of fruit are going forward
daily, but this is. a between period
with sone rush cover and the other not
arrived. The fruit business to date
has run to total Of about 5000 cars,
anclading canteIoupes and such things
that Glass in With gthe fruit in ship
r1ent. = 7'tf1 FLs H.sf4i srs eve
Evidences continue to multiply that
rancherss whoa have grown hay are
1ookinK fef' beef and dairy cattle to
which to feed, but are finding the
chances of buying scarce. Whether
there is an actual scarcity of animals
or whether the general demand in the
northwest has run the price up and
created the appearance of scarcity is a
matter which Is debated. The Chi
cago reports indicate that there is an
actual shortage, which is likely to
continue
Ernest Berg, who returned to
North Yakima Sunday from Chicago,
where he had sold his sheep, has
been called upon to explain why the
price of hogs and cattle is so. much
higher than the prevailing figures on
mutton. There appears to be no
doubt that the supply of lambs IS
much greater than was figured and
that the small holdings make, in the
aggregate, a. sufficient supply each
day in the market to hold down the
figures Farmers in all the middle
states are growing some sheep and
the buyers bring these in in great
punches which. makes an almost
daily supply which holds down the
quotations on the shipped lots from
the, west. Ygif "a go Is At view
In hay and potatoes there is little
business and no market has been es-
tab1ished. One grocer said Monday
that he had not paid less than SIS a
ton for potatoes for his business
though he could have bought cheap
or. He did not "have the face" as
he expressed it, to offer less. Buy
ers who have been feeling out this
field say that they can get almost two
tons for that price. but are not pre-
pared to buy Many Of the growers
are preparing to pit and will make no
effort to go into the market this fall.
ery-. xxyitI, a g n uy
Is It is there is but one direction in
which prices can go and that Is up
ward and they will hold for that
change.
Grocers and butchers and other re-
tail dealers of the city report BUSH
ness to be good and steadily and rap
idly improving. They look forward
70 a good fall. General market quo
cations are as follows:
General Quotations
Yakima Best, per sack .$l.So
Minnesota Blend, hard wheat ..S1.S5
Prosser flour, per sack $3.50
Washington hard wheat flour ..$1.3O
Kennewick Best, patent flour $3.50
Alfalfa, ton, wholesale $3.50 @$s.o0
Wheat hay, per ton 5000 q $1,000
Potatoes, per ton -. $500 to $11.OO
Fruits, Vegetables, Groceries, Retail
Creamery butter, Id :. 40c, ? for Toe
Ranch butter, pound .......... 9Oc
Eggs, per dozen ....... SOC
Cheese, Wisconsin, pound ...... zoe
Brick cheese, pound ......... 3oc
Imported Swiss cheese, pound ACC
hamburger cheese, pound 1888. .2oc
Oregon cheese ............... zoe
dj1l nickles dozen ......,.... .,ZUC
Grapes, basket Loo
Lemons, dozen .............5o c
Bananas, dozen ........ soc and soc
Oranges, dozen 49,. 25c, 40c and SOC
California grape fruit, each -. .1oc
ssurnips, per bunch DC
Cabbages, pound ................ &c
ERuliflower, head ....... loo
Wucumbers 20 Tor &C
numatoes, per lb &c. for zoe
ArQcnokes 49,. -. - - w
Carrots. per bunch ............ DC
Green corn. per dozen ......... 16c
Sweet spuds ..............4 IDS zoe