Show PRODUCE MARKET Big Demand for Wheat for Horner ft Trade and Shipment ti CORN IS STILL ADVANCING Eggs Take an Upward Shoot Shipments of Potatoes Light With Prices Tending Downward The spring months have passed and our city has settled down to solid business 4 with good prospects for a good summer Salt Lake being the commercial centre of all Utah With the great number of people peo-ple that are coming to our city we feel confident con-fident of a prosperous season When our farmers wake up to the fact that the demand de-mand for produce doubles each year they will break up and put under cultivation the hundreds of acres of land that now stand idle comparatively worthless to them There is at present a good prospect for a full crop of fruit this season which will brim a good return to our farmers The fruit boxes and crates can be shipped from California in the knock down and l put up here at a small cost and thereby obtain fancy prices for what has been dumped into our market at almost any price Take a hint and prune your i trees and thin out your fruit and bring quality to this market instead of quantity The outlook is good for the Utah farmer and there is no further danger of an overproduction over-production that would cause a glut in the markets OFFERINGS WheatWheat is still being served out with an excellent demand for export and home trade On account of the large ship ments there has been an advance in prices It is firm at from 8105 to lOiM per cwt tor a good milling article buIlt on cars Utah common points e CornEastern markets are still advanc ing on this article so much so that very little is carried in steep by our home dealers Offerings are mado from 310 to 215 for cracked corn and whole corn from 305 to SJ10 sacked P O B cars here OatsOats are scarce Tho speculators report shows the smallest stock on hand for years It looks as if there would be an oat famine before tho season is over HayThere has been a wood demand for hay in the east but the delay in loading bits stopped all shipments of this article as the hay is growing very rapidly in the east as well as in our territory Prices are as follows Alfalfa baled F O B cars is from S7 to 750 per ton mixed hay from 9 to HO timothy mixed at 11 straight timothy at 12 per ton F O B Utah common com-mon points on the line of the railroads Eg sVe are very much pleased to say r that an advance on eggs has taken place since our last issue The supply is light and not one half equal to the demand Many t of the dealers are entirely out hence ii i t held prices stiff during the past week and eggs have been firm at 5 and 550 per case Most of the dealers have been tale cranhme east to malro up their supplies Offerings m Nebraska ana Kansas are iu 10M and 11 cents per dozen ButterAll the best grades of butter are arriving from California and it is a number num-ber one grassfed article Tho market is fairly well supplied with import and home trade Offerings are made from 25 to 27U for an A No 1 article Dairy is from 36 to 20 and Utah stock from 20 to 25 cents per 1 pound Vegetables Shipments of potatoes are very light prices have somewhat declined t Offerings lor an A No1 article are made at 60 cents per bushel sacked on cars while the jobbing trade is gelling from 70 to 75 cents Exportations for the past week have been very light as California and Colorado are filling eastern markets and other points that should be tributary to this territory New potatoes arc in the market and are offered in small lots from 3 5 to 4 cents per poundSalt Lake Price Current Cur-rent |