The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-10-08
SEATTLE MARKET LETTER.


to city consumers was dropped one
cent or to ID cents quart.
City creamery men are of the opin-
ion that the condensed milk plants to
be closed at once because of the fail
ure of the expert demand for canned
milk will precipitate low prices for
milk and butter fat. Their position
is that the condensarics have built
up and sustained the Western Wash
ington milk market, and unsatisfac-
tory as milk prices have been to
farmers, according to their recent
protests, they arc expected to go low
er through the withdrawal of the
chief avenue of consumption.
With fresh creamery and storage
butter only SC apart on the market,
there is a general to cndcncy to hold
cooler stocks. Many are of the
opinion that the butter market will
recover shortly.
The market on standard fresh hen
merry eggs opened firm for the week.
Despite the downdard tendency of
the costs Of all foodstuffs, iobbcrs
contend that eggs must be the cx-
ception-
The speculative element is entire
ly out of the apple market this year
SO far as buyers on this side of the
mountains are able to judge. Rcit-
Grated claims that the Eastern mar
kets will clean up a bumper crop of
early fruit before Washington apples
start moving in that direction arc
rot borne out by the facts, as tho
bulk of the early local fruit has pas
sed into the hands of buyers at Chi
cago and in the East.
The potato market is far from
strong. Digging in the yakima val
ley will begin this week There arc
bids of $4,000 per ton and avenue
jobbers declare that there is range
of 81 to SIS in the grades of what is
being traded in as No. I Gems.
The fresh creamery butter drop
ped cents to 60 cents for bricks
Saturday. Tt is expected that farm
ers will now put their milk cows on
winter ration, cut down the cream
supply and that prices will rebound in
few days.
There were no hogs on the market
Monday, though packers announced
that they would offer Saturdays
prices. Cattle receipts were 40
Read, but with the arrivals late. buy
crs did not get into action and thee
was little trading. Saturdays bids
ruled. Sheep receipts were 24o The
market was steady.
Hog uotations-Prime, s16.5Om
II; medium to choice, s15616.5O;
smooth heavies, s145O@15; rough
heavies, s125O@13; pigs. s13M1450.
Cattle Quotations-Prime steers,
s9.50@10; medium to choice, $500;
common to good, s6@7.5O; best cows
and heifers, s7.25@775; medium to
choice, s6@7; common to good. $3.50
@6; bulls, s4@5; Calves, s7@15.
Sheep Quotations-Prime lambs
s1o25@11.5O; valley lambs, $500;
Gull lambs, S5@6; yearlings, $1,000
8; wethers, s650@7; ewes, s5@6.50.
Purchasing Prices to Producers:
Eggs-Puget Sound select ranch,
65c@67c per doz; Eastern Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho &c per doz.
Butterfat-F. o. b. stations, Gle per
ID; raw milk, $3.50 per cwt; dairy.
35c per lb; bakers 3Oc per III.
Poultry-BroiIers, 2 lbs. and un-
der, Sac per ID; springs, over 2 lbs.
each 25c; hens, 1908 IA lbs, 16c per
Id; lbs. and over, CSC per h.
Hogs-Choice Block, so to $50 lbs.
19@21c per ID; do heavy, 10000 per
lb.
Beef-Steers, fat, 90O1Oc per lb.
Veal-Fancy light, 20m2tc per lb;
do medium, 10000 per III.
Mutton-Fat, 12c per lb spring
lambs, fat, dressed, 1Sc per III.
Sheep Pelts-Long wool, each, 50
MS1: medium wool, each 4OmSOc;
short wool, each 35c; shearlings 15m
Csc; hint-dry wool pelts, 50D12c per
lb.
Tallow-No. I, Sc per ID; No. ..
DC per h.
Wool-Medium clean, 20c per ID;
medium heavy, 16c per III; coarse
clean, Zoe per lb; coarse heavy, Zoe
per lb; No. 6 colts, Zoe per ID.