The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-05
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.

REPORTS. |
Portland -..All wool men agree that
the coming season will be the most
interesting, and perhaps exciting, that
the Western markets have seen in
many years. Beyond this they will
make no prediction. Prices, of course,
will be good, but whether they will be
high, or how high, no one cares to
guess.
A dealer needs a brave speculative
disposition to undertake forward bust
ness in the face of the conditions this
year. Nevertheless it is said con-
tracing has been done to a consider
able extent in Utah and it is also re-
ported that some contracts have been
signed around Arlington. The terms
were not mentioned, nor could the re-
ports be verified.
Sheep growers are confident that
prices will go to a high range and
some of them are talking of rs or
30-cent market. With stocks in
America as. low as they are and spot
prices here and abroad continually ad-
vancing, there is no doubt the 1915
market will open very strong, but buy
ers are not willing to concede that
farmers will get the prices they are
expecting.
The demand for eggs was better the
latter part of the week, and receipts
cleaned up quickly. Oregons were held
at 80 cents, case count, and 33 cents
candled.
Wheat business came to stop in
the local market this week, and for
the first time this year there were no
sales on the Merchants Exchange.
Most of the dealers evidently had
nothing to offer, and those with sup
ply on hand wanted too much for it..
Bids for most deliveries were ad-
vanced from half cent to II cents,
while asking prices were generally l
to cents above bids, and in the case
of prompt bluestem the spread was 8
cents.
Arrivals of poultry and meats were
moderate and prices were steady and
unchanged.
Butter and cheese moved at last
quotations.
Wheat-Bid: Bluestem, Las; forty
fold, $1.44; club, $1.42a; red Russian,
$1.36; red Fife, $1.38.
Oats--No. l white feed, $3.50.
Barley - No. / feed, $3.50; brew
ing, $42.5O; bran, $3O.25; shorts, $31.
Millfeed-Spot prices: Bran, 5000
81; shorts, $32@32.5O rolled barley,
$34. .50@35.50.
White, $36 ton; cracked, $37.
Hay-Eastern Oregon timothy, $14
ole; valley timothy, $12.5O; grain
hay, y,,.$1O@12; alfalfa, $12@13.
Vegetables : Cucumbers, hothouse,
$2@2.25 dozen; peppers, $4 crate; ar
tichokes, $4,000 dozen; cabbage, II
@1ac pound; celery, $3.50 crate;
cauliflower, $2.25; sprouts, &c per
pound; pumpkins, lie; squash, 1ac;
carrots, $1.25 sack; beets, $1.25;
parsnips, SLIPS.
Green Fruits = Apples, 75c@$1. 80
box; casaba, $1.65 crate; pear, SIG
1.50; cranberries, $9@l1 barrel.
Potatoes, 23c pound.
Onions-Oregon, buying price, $1.25
T. o. b. shipping point.
Eggs - Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 32c; candled, 33c.
Poultry-Hens, 12c pound; mixed,
11@11ac; broilers, 18@20c; turkeys,
dressed, 21c; live, 1Sc; ducks, 14@
Ice; geese, 12@14c.
Butter - Creamery, prints, extras,
32c pound in case lots; &c more in less
than case lots; cubes, 26@27c.
Pork-Block, 8a@9c pound.
Veal-Fancy, 12A@13c pound.
Hops - 1914 crop, 10@12ac; 1918
crop, nominal.
Hides = Sailed, lac; salted bulls,
1Oc; salted kip, 15c; salted calf, 19c;
green hides, 13c; green bulls, &c;
green kip; 15c; green calf, 19c; dry
hides, 26c; dry calf, 2Sc.
Wool - Valley, 17@lsc; Eastern
Oregon, 15@20c, nominal; mohair,
1914 clip, 27ac.
Cascara bark-0ld and new, 4@4ac
pound.
Cattle - Prime steers $7.50@8. 90;
choice, $7.25@7. so; medium, $6.75@
7.25; choice cows, $6@6. 80; medium,
$5@6; heifers. $5@7; bulls, $3.50@6;
stays, $4.5O@6.
Hogs - Light, $6.25@6. 80; heavy,
5.25@6.
Sheep-Wethers, $5. 75@6.65; ewes,
$5@5.75; lambs, $6.25@7.80.
Tacoma - Apples - Green cooking,
SOC box; Spitzenbergs, Winesaps,
Rome Beauties, Arkansas Blacks,
Staymen Winesaps and Black Twigs,
75@S5c box; Delicious, $1.65@l.75.
Cider-30c gallon; Oregon, So keg,
25c gallon.
Comb honey-Yakima, $3.25 crate;
strained honey, $3.50; Idaho, $3.50;
Nevada, $3.50.
Pears-Yakima, $3.50 box.
Cranberries, sS.25@ll.
Vegetables-Cabbage, homegrown,
lie pound; carrots, local, 75c@$1 ;
beets, homegrown, 75c@s1; turnips,
sl.S5; potatoes, Yakima, $22@23 ton;
White River, sl7@lS; Burbanks, $22;
onions, green. zoe dozen; Oregon
brown onions, sl.75 a 2; Yakima,
$3.50; garlic, 15c pound; radishes,
local, zoe dozen lunches; parsley,
4Oc dozen punches; lettuce, head, 60c
i dnzan hunchas 20 crate. aninnch lncal