Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
PRICE MARKETS
FOR TABLE FOOD
SUGAR SETTLES DOWN TO
STABLE FIGURE.
Green Vegetables Plentiful and Ex-
ceptionally Fine, as Frost Has
Spared Them; Meat Prices
Hold Firm and Steady.

Dealers believe that sugar has set
tied to a permanent price of $S.05 for
beet and SS.45 for cane, IL and 12
lbs, for 81. Potatoes are little
lower in the downtown grocers, the
best Greeleys selling at II lbs. for
Csc, 100 lbs, S1.S5. 1t seems to be
the general opinion tho that they will
stiffen back little.
Flour is steady at S5.45 for the
Longmont Special and Legal Tender
and $555 for the Pride of the Rock
les and Hungarian Patent.
Butter is the same as last week, the
Orange creamery, Brookside and Col
umbine selling at 45c per lb. and the
other Denver brands selling at 4sc per
h., 2 lbs, 95c; tub butter, per h., 43c,
2 lbs, s5c; Butterine, 2Sc per h., 2
lbs, 55c and 33c per lb, 2 lbs, Csc.
Indications are for higher prices on
butter next week. Eggs are 40c, 45c
and SOC per dozen.
The best peaches are fast disap-
pearing from the market, and next
week will see the last of the good
stock. Elbertas are selling at 90c for
choice and 81 for fancy Colorado Ell
bertas and the extra large Oregon Ell
bertas are S1.15 per box. Bushel bas-
kets of Elbertas are S2.15. Bartlett
pears are from S2.25 to S265 per box
Preserving pears are from S2.35 to
$3.50 per box
A carload of transcendent crabap-
Piles from Montana arrived yesterday
and are selling at 65c for a concord
basket, S1.50 for peach box full and
SO for bushel box. Wild plums are
Csc per concord basket, S1.50 for a
4-basket crate. italian prunes. SOC
per basket and $1.S5 per crate. Lom-
bard plums, 90c per 4-basket crates.
Genuine Damson plums are S5c for a
concord basket.
Concord grapes from Michigan are
40c per basket; Tokays and Malagas
are 45c per square basket. Ounces
are on the market, dealers say the
early ones are the best, 10c per lb.,
and S275 for a large box. Most peo-
pie want sweet apples to go with
ounces. These can be bought in the
loop stores at S1.50 per box.
Rocky Ford cantaloupe are S5c for
a fiat crate, S1.75 for a pony crate
and a standard crate, 81; Honeydew
melons are a little cheaper, selling at
from 20c to 35c each.
Every day shows a few more varie-
ties of apples on the market; Belle
fleurs are 50 per box; best Jonathans,
So: Grimes Golden, 50; Maiden Blush,
S225; Wealthy, S1.25 to s1.50; price
on smaller quantities running from
3 to 8 lbs, for 25c.
Tomatoes have taken quite a drop
owing to the fact that frost has held
off and given the growers chance to
gather their entire crop. Large size
peach box of selected tomatoes are
selling at 35c; green tomatoes are the
same price per box.
Green vegetables are unusually fine
for this season of the year, there hav-
ing been no frost to set them back:
cau,ifower is 2 lbs, 15c, spinach, 2
lbs, 15c; lettuce, SC, California head
lettuce, each 1Oc and lnrger heads, 2
for 25c; green beans and shell beans
are 8 lbs. for 25c: butter beans, lbs,
25c; large well bleached pascal eel
cry, 2 stalks for 15c, 75c per doz.;
smaller celery at SOC per doz.; large
egg plant are 15c to 20c each, and
green peppers are from SC per doz.
for the very small ones, to 15c per
doZ. for the larger sizes.
Picking cucumbers are from Bic to
SOC per 100 and the dill size, 81 per
100: dill weed sells at &c per bunch;
garlic, 15c per lb.; horseradish root,
per lb., zoe; one can buy hubbard
SQUASH at &c per lb. and summer
SQUASH at 2hc per lb.: radishes and
green onions are 2 punches for Sc.
CRYSTAL wax and yellow onions are
lbs. for 25c; this is an advance of
about one cent per lb. over last week.
Cabbage is also little higher, selling
at 12 lbs, 25c. 100 lbs, Soc.
Meat prices hold steady.