Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-29
LOCAL MARKETS.

LOCAE MAXINE ..
The sugar market today ranges from
81 for beet sugar to $3.50 and cane from
S7.25 to IS, the retail price, which
varies at different stores. Yesterday
one grocery dropped sugar to 1925 and
today others followed at that price al
though they claim 1t is below the
wholesale market and that after the
present supply is gone the price will
advance again. The peach market was
well supplied again today and dealers
are moving the crop in crates and
apple boxes. Choice crates sold today
for so cents and apple boxes filled with
peaches at 81 to SIZE. The hog mar
ket. which showed a weakness yes
terday, broke today under the heavy
receipts, a decline OF rs cents per hum
dred being shown by the quotations
Spring chickens are plentiful and
half cent decline per pound is shown
in the quotations. Several changes are
noted in the quotations today. which
are as follows:
Wholesale Markets.
(The following are the prices paid
to the producers and not what the
wholesaler charges the retailer. ex-
cept in vegetables:)
| observation-disclosures daily by the
pany, Potatoes, $1.25 per cwt-; cab
bage. 81 per cwt.
! Local fruit-(Corrected daily by w.
]. Campbell & Son)-Blackberries, 81
par crate; peaches soc per crate; wat
ermelons 75o per cwt.; grapes 4@5c
per pound; tomatoes; 30 per pound
apples, 65@75c per box.
Dairy produce-(Corrected daily by
/ y.
Creamery butter, solid pack, $50; prints
extra; cream. per gallon. 81; milk, per
gallon, zoe; per hundred pounds. s1.7o;
butter fat, S2c per pound.
| acknowledgements daily by the
Boise Butcher mpany)-Cows. $475
as per cwt.: steers, $55o@5.70; fat
hogs, $8@825 per cwt.; medium, $7.25
@7.75; heavy, $7@750; shearling weth
ers, $4,000 per cwt-; ewes, 80SMo
per pound spring lambs, &c per pound;
spring chickens. 1910 per pound;
hens. SC per pound; turkeys, 12hc per
ipound, live weight; 16o per pound
dressed: breakfast bacon. zoo per
pound; ham, 1sc per pound; lard, tree
base, 121ac per pound.
Eggs, honey and ranch butter
Corrected daily by w. j. Campbell &
Son. -F'resh ranch eggs, per case, Sc;
fhoney. per case $2.4o@2.76; ranch but
ter. rs a 300 per pound.
Hay and grain-Alfalfa, $s@s.5o per
ton. baled; timothy baled $10@11;
wheat s1.15Q1.25 per cwt.; oats. SIG
s1.10 per cwt.; barley. anc0$1.
Retail Markets.
corrected daily by w. j. Campbell
& Son.)-Potatoes. IA pounds for 25c;
per cwt. $3.50; green peppers. 25c
per dozen; parsley. 90 per bunch
onions. 2 for &c; dry onions, &c
per pound; radies. for SC; car
rots. &c per bunch; cucumbers, two for
&c; new beets, &c per bunch: new car
rots, &c per bunch; cauliflower. 1oc
per head; wax beans, 8 pounds for 2oc;
green beans, pounds for 25c; Sweet
corn. 10000 per dozen; celery, sc per
bunch; egg plant, 1Oc each; summer
squash, &c each; dill, loo per bunch.
Local fruits-Apples, s pounds Csc,
, per box, 81; local peaches, 15@25c per
basket; per apple box s1@1.15; per
crate choice, soc; plums. 20c per bas
ket; watermelons, lie per pound; cam
taloupe, 6Q10c; tomatoes, SC per
pound, 55c per crate; Damson plums,
SC per pound.
Tropical fruits-Bananas, 8 pounds
for Csc; cut off bananas. 15c and zoe
per dozen; Florida pineapples, 12hc per
, pound; oranges. zoe to soc per dozen:
lemons, 35 @40c per dozen. Tokay
grapes. 65c per basket.
Eggs, butter and honey-Ranch eggs,
per Dozen csc: creamery butter. 400
per pound. ranch butter, sec, best $50
per pound; honey, 15c per pound.
Sugar and lard-Beet sugar. per
cwt, S70725: cane sugar, per cwt-
S7.25Qs; lard. per lob. pail, $50;
mamie sugar. 25c pSr pound.
Fish-Halibut, zoe per pound; SAL
mon. zoe per pound; perch. zoe per
pound; salmon trout. soc per pound:
, salt cod, 15c per pound; smelts. zoo
per pound.
Poultry and meat-Hens, zoe; ducks
22c; spring frys soc to csc: roasting
|, chickens, 22c; spring ducks. 22o per
pound; cod, 15c per pound.
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