The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-10-02
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.

Portland - Oregon hops sold this
week at the highest price Of the sea-
son. McNeff Bros. bought 1873 bales
Of fuggles at 18a to 1873 cents. One
hundred bales of this quality were OBJ
tanned from a local dealer and the re-
mainder was the Cooper lot at Inde-
pendence.
Several dealers were in the market,
but found growers very firm. A bid
Of II cents on $50 bales of West Side
hops was turned down by the owner.
1t is said number of purchases of in
ferior grades and Of small lots over
contracts have been bought at IA and
15 cents, but holders of good hops are
not disposed to sell them under 18
cents.
Apples are moving better. The
market is in good shape for fancy
stock, and as prices are reasonable the
demand is growing. Fancy apples are
quoted at $1.25 to $1.50 and choice at
rs cents to 81. The season for GRAY
ensteins is drawing to close and
Kings, Jonathans, Twenty Ounce,
Shows and that class are coming to the
front. The trade looks for heavy
local consumption of apples as soon as
summer fruits are off the market.
The Canadian apple crop is not going
to be the menace to Northwestern ap-
Piles on Eastern markets that was pre-
dicted a few weeks ago, according to
Walter M. Dickerson, who has just re-
turned from Canada. Several weeks
ago the opinion was freely expressed
by authorities that because of the big
apple crop generally, including Can
ada, and the curtailment of Canadian
apple exports by the European war,
Canadian apples would seek an outlet
in the United States in competition
with apples grown here.
Wheat = Bid: Bluestem, $1.03 per
bushel; forty-fold, 96c; club, 94c; red
Russian, 90c; red Fife, 90c.
Oats Bid: No. white feed, $26. .25
per ton.
Barley Bid: No. / feed; $21.5 so
per ton; brewing, $22.
Millfeed- Spot prices: Bran, $500
$3.50 per ton; shorts, $29@29. 26;
rolled barley, $28.
Corn--W Whole, $3S per ton; cracked,
$S9.
Hay-Old timothy, Eastern Oregon,
$15@16 per ton; new crop timothy,
valley, $12.50@13; grain hay, $lO@
IL; alfalfa, $12@13.5O.
Eggs - Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 30@31c per dozen; candled, 33
@35c.
Poultry Hens, 13a@14c; springs,
14@14ac; turkeys, young, 22c; ducks,
10@15c; geese, 11@12c.
Butter - Creamery prints, extras,
35c per pound; cubes, 31@32c.
Pork-Block, 11@11sc per pound.
Veal-Fancy, 13ac per pound,
Vegetables = Cucumbers, Soc per
box; eggplant, 7c per pound; peppers,
6@7ac; artichokes, 85c@$1 per dozen;
tomatoes, 50@65c per crate; cabbage,
12c per pound; peas, 5@6c; beans, A
@6c; corn, 75c@$1 per sack; celery,
5O@S5c per dozen; caulifower, $1.25
@1.75; asparagus, $2.25 per box;
sprouts, l0c per pound.
Onions Yellow, $1@1,25 per sack.
Green Fruits Apples, new, 5Oc@
$1.50 per box; cantaloupes, $1@1. so
per crate; casabas, $1.25@1.50 per
dozen; pears, $1@1.50; peaches, 45@
Toe per box; grapes, 75c@$l.50 per
crate.
Potatoes = Oregon, $1.50 per sack;
Yakima, $l.50; sweets, 2tc per pound.
Hops-1914 crop, 17@18c per pound;
1918 crop, nominal.
Wool--Valley, 18a@20ac per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 16@2Osc; mohair,
1914 clip, 27ac per pound.
Cascara bark -Old and new, 4c per
pound.
Cattle = Prime steers, $7@7.25;
choice, $6.50@6.75; medium, $6.25@
$50; choice cows, $6@6.25; medium,
$5.25 a 5.75; heifers, $3.50 a 6.25;
calves, Sc q $50; bulls, $3 q 4.75;
stays, $4.50@6.
Hogs-Light. $s@s.25; heavy, $7@
7.25.
Sheep = Wethers, $4@5. 40; ewes,
So. .50@4.50; lambs, $5@5.50.
Seattle - Yakima potatoes are so
scarce on the street that the trade was
supplied wholly from White Rivers,
which jumped to the unusual level Of
$50. There was not sack of Eastern
Washington spuds on the entire av-