The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-02-26
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.

Portland - The wool market in the
East is in most excited condition and
stirring times are looked for in the
Western states when the buying sea-
son opens. Everybody in the trade is
bullish, the growers because they are
practically certain to get very high
prices, and the buyers because they
cannot be otherwise.
The contracting movement is Begin
ming to get little headway in the
West. 1t would be booming were
there enough sellers. Buyers stand
ready to contract for wool anywhere
in Eastern Oregon, but they are not
able to make any impression yet on
the growers, and may not be able to do
much in this line before shearing time,
unless they offer a good deal more
than they are talking now. Dealers
would be glad to contract for good
medium clips at % cents, such clips as
they bought last year at II to 18
cents, but sheepmen turn deaf ear to
such proposals. While values are CO.
ing to be high this year it would be
folly to predict any definite prices.
The hop market is plainly moving
in an upward direction, under the in
fluence of strong export demand and
with stocks at low ebb. Fourteen
cents was paid this week for choice
Oregons. This quotation has not been
seen since the middle of last Septem-
ber.
This top price, IA cents, was paid
by Louis Lachmund to Henry Eoff, of
Independence, for 400 bales. Harry
L. Hart bought 1T bales from Robert
Ankeny, of Rickreall, at 1875 cents.
Wheat Bid: Bluestem, $1.54b;
fortyfold, s1.53; club, $1.52a; red
Russian, SLAP; red Fife, $1.47.
Millfeed-Spot prices: Bran, $50. so |
@31.50 ton; shorts, $32. 50@33. so;
rolled barley, $35@36.
Corn-White, $38 ton; cracked, $39.
Hay-Eastern Oregon timothy, $14
OLE; valley timothy, $3.50; grain
hay, $10@12; alfalfa, $12@13.
Vegetables = Cucumbers, hothouse,
$1.25@1.50 dozen; eggplant, 8@1Oc
pound; peppers, $4 crate; artichokes,
85@90c dozen; tomatoes, SITS crate;
cabbage, 14@1ac pound; celery, $40
4.25 crate; caulifower, So; sprouts, 8
@9c pound; head lettuce, $1.75@2
crate; rhubarb, 1O@l2ac pound; car
rots, $1.25 sack; beets, s1.25; pars-
nips, $1.25.
Green Fruits - Apples, 75c@$1. so
box; casabas, $1.65 crate; cranber-
ries, $11 barrel.
Potatoes-Oregon, $1.1O@1.15 sack;
Yakima, 90c@$1.15.
Onions - Selling price 81 per sack,
country points.
Eggs = Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 22@23c; candled, 24c.
Poultry - Hens, 13@13ac pound;
mixed, 12@12ac; broilers, 18@20c;
turkeys, dressed, 2O@21c; live, Ice;
ducks, 13@16c; geese, 8@10c.
Butter = Creamery, prints, extras,
32c pound in case lots; &c more in less
that case lots; cubes, 26c.
Veal-Fancy, 12@12ac pound.
Pork-Block, 9ac pound.
Hops = 1914 crop, 12@14c; 1918
crop, 12c.
Hides : Sailed hides, 15c; salted
bulls, 1Oc; salted kip, 15c; salted calf,
lsc; green hides, 13Ac; green bulls,
&c; green kip, 15c; green calf, 19c;
dry hides, 26c; dry calf, 28c.
Wool = Valley, nominal; Eastern
Oregon, nominal; mohair, 1914 clip,
27c.
Cascara bark = Old and new, 4Ac.
Pelts - Dry long wool, 13c; dry
short wool, lOc; dry shearings, each,
l0@15c; salted shearings, each, 15@
25c; dry goats, long hair, each, 100
l2Ac; dry goat shearings, each, 100
Zoe; salted sheep pelts, February, 81
al. 30 each.
Cattle = Prime steers, 81. .50@7. rs; 6
,hoice, $7.25@7. so; medium, $6.75@ ,
'.25; choice cows, $6@6.60; medium,
'5@6; heifers, $5@6.25; bulls, $3.50
D6; stays, $4.5O@6. I
Hogs = Light, $6.25@6.9O; heavy,
5.50@6.20.
Sheep - Wethors, $6@7.15; ewes, :
i5@6.l5; lambs, $7@8.20.
Seattle-Wheat - Bluestem, $1.54; h
ortyfold, $1.53; club, $l.52; Fife, v
'l.47h; red Russian, S1.44. i
Barley-$3O. ton. a
Tacoma-Apples-Cooking, 75@90c I
'ox; Spitzenbergs, Winesaps, Rome
Arkansas Blacks, Staymen
Vinesaps : and Black Twigs, S5c@
'l.65; Delicious, $1.50@1.65.
Cider-30c gallon; Oregon, SO keg; a
&c gallon. s
Comb Honey-Yakima, $3.25 crate; c
trained honey, $3.50; Idaho, $3.50; "
Nevada, $3.50. e
Rears-Yakima, $1.50. a
Cranberries-$8.25. 4
Cabbage-Home-grown, 1tc pound; !,
Vinningstedt, &c. "
Carrots-Local, 75c@$1. Il
Beets-Home-grown, $1@1.25.
Turnips-Per sack, $l.35.
Potatoes = Yakima, $20@22 ton;
White River, $l7@ls; Burbanks, $22; b
weets, $3.50 cwt. b
Onions-Green, zoe dozen; Oregon 6