Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-05-28
MARKET AT SPOKANE.
Groceries.

0TOCcTieS.
Sugar. There are no radical
changes in the sugar situation. Re-
tailers are now supplied with certi-
ficates, permitting them to make sales
in bulk during the fruit preserving sea-
son, and distribution is more active.
Provisions.
Butter.=There have been no
changes in the market for butter. The
creamery output is holding normal,
with supply and demand well adjusted,
and prices firm at former rulings.
Eggs.-Are gradually falling off in
receipts, and the market has advanced,
with firm undertone.
Fresh Meats. - Have been very
scarce. The beef situation has been
further complicated by decided scare
ity in arrivals, and higher quotations
have prevailed, but recent arrivals
from more distant supply sources is af
fording relief, and a modification is
looked for. Pork is holding I'M
changed, and mutton is still firm.
Cured Meats.-Are apparently upon
more stable basis. While the mar
ket is firm, there have been no fur
Their changes during the past two
weeks. Demands are active, with the
expansion in out-of-door operations.
Fruits and Vegetables.
Cold weather has interior with the
shipment of strawberries, and supplies
have been inadequate to requirements.
Prices are variale, owing to changing
conditions, with range from $500 to
$3.50 per crate.
Apples are quiet with the advancing
season, but offerings are plentiful at
former range of quotations.
Bananas are still quoting at nc
per pound for fancy stock.
Arrivals of seasonable produce from
local sources are increasing. Rhubarh
is down to sc and plentiful. Kenne-
wick asparagus, loo per ID. Spinach
is selling at $1.00 a box. Hothouse
cucumbers, $2@2.25.
| New potatoes are making a better
showing, at to cents. Old pota
toes are a trifle firmer, locals quoting
at $25.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat.-A marked improvement is
shown in tn government crop repor
for May, as compared with April, anC
the winter whea harvest is now indi
Gated as promising close to record
level. There has been en- enlargement
in the movement of wheat from inter
ior points, with the observance of thu
edict of the food administration re
quiring the disposition of all surplus
5 stocks by May IS, and terminal re
2 ceipts have expanded, but the restriC
: tions regarding milling and conserve
T. ton are being closely drawn.
4 Flour-In the flour situation Their
Y has been no change of note, but tn
o announcement from Washington tina
q regulations were to be imposed to gov
: ern the price of substitutes forshaC
: ows a considerable change in the si
uation, the import of which is bein
awaited with concern by the trade
S The advice that corn flour should
d sold 10 per cent cheaper than whea
l. flour and corn meal 20 per cent belo'
that level gives occasion for speculi
ton as to what is meant, for it is in
possible that present stocks can
disposed of on such basis, in the fac
- of cost at least 10 per cent highe
: than the established price for whef
= flour. Relief in the form of lowe
II costs will bewelcome, although it
D. hoped that regulations will not be el
J. forced which will make the level {
n profits correspond to those of whe;
e flour, which is being handled with 4
remuneration to the distributor und'
existing conditions.
Feed.-The outside demand for fec
., is quiet, scattered inquiries are beir
- received, and some trade is being q
complished. Interior mills in the Mort
d Pacific are having no trouble in di
D. posing of their light output of fee
e. in surrounding territory, as they ha'
4 nothing to offer to local broker