Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-29
FLOUR HOLDS FIRM
BULLETINS WEEKLY REPORT OF
RETAIL MARKET.
Peach Season Nears Close, Dropping
to 81 Per Box; Sugar 40 to 55
Cents Per 100 Cheaper.

Sugar has eased off from 40c to 55c
per hundred pounds. The beet is now
$3.50 per 100 lbs, and the cane, Ss.75,
10 and IL lbs, for 81.
Flour holds at the same old price,
S5.45 per sack for the Longmont Spe-
cial and Legal Tender, and $3.50 for
the Pride of the Rockies and Hun
garian Patent.
Potatoes are zoe per hundred cheap
er, the best Greeleys selling at S2.25
per 100 lbs, 10 lbs, 25c.
There has been no change in butter
and eggs, the Orange Creamery,
Brookside and Columbine, 45c per lb.,
and the other Denver brands, 4Sc per
h., 2 lbs, 95c; dairy tub butter, 43c
per h., lbs, S5c; Butterine, per h.,
2sc, lbs, 55c, and 33c, 2 lbs, Csc.
Eggs are 40c, 45c and SOC per dozen.
The peach season is nearing a close
without peaches getting down to the
scarce and the bushel baskets are in
greater demand than the supply
Fancy and extra Elbertas are S1.15
and SIPS per box, Slayer pie peaches,
81 per box; bushel baskets, Elbertas,
$3.50; Paonia Elbertas will be here
next week, but dealers do not expect
prices to be materially lower if any.
Large green Northwestern Bartlett
pears are s2.S5 per box and cheaper
grades selling down to S2.25 per box.
Flemish Beauty and Duchess pears
are $3.50 per box; crab apples are Csc
per concord basket; Hyslop crabapples,
the box, S1.65; Nectarines, peach box,
S1.75; wild plums, Csc per concord
basket; genuine Damson plums, 81
per concord basket; Lombard plums,
4-basket crate, SIPS, and other fancy
plums, 60c per square basket. Con-
cord grapes are 40c per basket, Nal
agas, per square basket, soc; Tokays,
Soc, and sweet Muscat grapes are 35c
per large square basket, Sl.35 per A.
basket crate.
Rocky Ford pink meat cantaloupes
are S5c per fiat crate, the regular can
taloupes, 81 per fiat crate; pony crate,
.S1.75; standard crate, 81; watermelons,
each, 40c and up. Honeydew melons,
25c to 40c each.
Oranges, doz., 25c to 6Oc; grape
fruit, each. 10c to 12lRc; lemons, doz.,
40c and 45c.
Eating and cooking apples range
from lbs. to lbs. for 25c; Belle
5fus Blush, AsPte5 sPs5; Wealthy, We thy $50; " Jona,
thans, So; and Crimes Golden, SO
per box.
Just little more frost and you can
forget about tomatoes, they are SELL
ing at SOC to Csc per peach box full,
slicing tomatoes, basket, 15c; green
tomatoes, per box, SOC. California
new pressed figs are in, 15c per pkg.
Cucumbers for picking will be off the
list soon; they are now from 35c to
SOC per hundred, the dill size, 81 per
100; dill weed, per bunch, Sc; picking
onions, lbs, 25c; green peppers: 3
doz., 25c; bunch peppers, SC; dried
Mexican chill peppers, per h.. Soc;
cauliflower, 2 lbs, 15c; new spinach,
2 lbs, l5c; California head lettuce,
10 and 121ac per head; homegrown
lettuce. Sc: bunch beets, carrots, tur-
nips and boiling onions, large bunch,
Sc; shell beans. green beans and wax
beans, 3 lbs, 25c.
Cabbage, 12 lbs, 25c, 100 lbs, S1.5O;
this is quite little higher than it has
been and growers say the end is not
yet.
Dry onions are from 6 to 8 lbs. for
25c; Hubbard squash, per lb., Sc; sum
mer squash, lbs, &c; large extra
fine pascal celery sells at stalks for
15c: dozen, 75c; smaller pascal selling
at SOC per doZ. Large egg plant are
from 15c to zoe each; Brussel sprouts,
25c per lb.; new garlic, per lb., 15c,
and horseradish root, per lb., 20c.
There has been no material change in
the fresh and smoked meat market.