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Show Coast Supplies Local Market California Vegetables Taking the Place of the Utah Varieties. Va-rieties. NOW begins the month of California vegetables There were only two representatives repre-sentatives of that sunny clime n f.-i days i'go, but now many of the Utah ve$;e-iables ve$;e-iables arc out of tho market, their plac, King taken by the California varieties. onie or mo new ones arc California Bruxsels sprouts California green peas California radishes. California string beans', California French nrtlchokoH Malaga grapes have taken tho ol.icn of 1 If.ck, and pom granites are now gone from the market. The fish market reports small clams at 0 . --nts per dozen Poultry has gone up, making a chicken dinner moro expensive than heretjfore. Striped bass is 20 cents per pound. 5 cents cheaper than before, which makes this tish even with the fowl cjl to price. Wholesale Quotations. Hay Cr.iln and Straw Ont straw, per ha e 30c, alfalfa. $10 00; timothy, per ton, baled, 513 50, wheat, per bushel 80c43$1.10; corn, per cwt., $1 :o'-ri 35. corn, cracked. "1-40; oats, $i 01 50; rolled oats 81.60 '"' barlej rolled 81.86; flour, bakers' No L $2 3r. flour straight grad- $2 402.G0; Hour, high patent Jj ;-..,: 7-.; rve. $2.Cn, graham flour. 12.5082.70; cornmeal, i 7CrrT - bran ?! .0. I, ran and shorts. $1 P. Xleats Dresse.i beef, per pound, 611 6c. dressed veal, per pound 7c dressed lambo p. r po md, 7 . . dres.a. .1 mutton per pound, 6497c dressed hogs oJ-ic live, ?4r) per cwt.; mincemeat. 8tfc84MfiC Poultry Dressed hens. 11c; broilers, per pound 12c; turkeys 800J28 Frulls. California grapes $2 00; Utah apples per bushel, 11.00; Idaho apples bananas, per bunch. '.5'fiC.OO . cran-bcrrles, cran-bcrrles, P.SOeiO.OO per barrel dates, per pound, Sliif. oranges. $1 J. to ,U 25 per box Sugar -Meet r. per no. JC.10, cine st:gnr, $6.;i0 Vegetables California head lettuce 45c a dozen ovstc-r plant 46c a dozen; celery, dozen, 60c; parsnips, per cwt.. $1.25. yellow onions, per 100, $1 Vj. vegetable marrow, per dozen. (T'c. red cabbage, per pound. 24c. sweet potatoes per cwt. 82.00 Utah cabbage, per 100 $175; potatoes, per cwt, 90c; turnlei heets and carrots, per LI I, SI. 25; green onions, per dozen, 20c, pumpkins pump-kins dozen, j- 26; Utah lettuce. 20c. caull. Iloe, . r, p.-r pound, Kfi12e Dairy Products But i.t. per pound. Mc ; clieese. per pound, 12c; eggs, per case. Si '.o'iS.75; comb honey, per crate. $2 75; Bweitser cheese, pt-r pound, isc, llmbur- i-1 i" ' h' epe pr r , nd 16. . n im brick he. --. per pound. 17c; Bdam cheese, per dOBI n $12 'O. Fish Salmon. l.V mountain trout. ?0c: halibut, 12c striped ha.F. r-er pound 16c; SOles per pound 9c- llounders. per nound, Sc. California smelts, per pound. 12c, catfish, cat-fish, per pound L'c perch. per pound, 10c: kingflsh. two pounds. 85o; lobsters ..per pound. 1.r.e; oysters NSW York counts. $1 60 per 100; selei ts $2 25 per gsllon; Olympian. $3.fi per gallon. Cromarty Cro-marty bloaters, per 100, $3 60. codfish. 6g 9c: smoked salmon. 10fl2Asr, red fish or red snapper 17c blue fish 17c: ecrebasss, 25c per dozen; white fish. 15c; pompano.' 35c. Retail Quotations. Meals Prime rib. 174c; porterhouse. 18 080c; pork, 16e; mutton chops. 104916c; I.;--- 12 ' . In ml. 12' '! 15c per pound; e 12a20c; veal loaf 30c. Poultry Dressed hens, 13fiK,c: broilers 20c; turkeys. :W; ducpa. lfiin, . roast Rprlngs, 30c. Fruits Idaho npj)ea. g0c n peck, lemons, per dozen, 2-"o, oronpeji. per dozen, 25fi10c: bananas, per dozen 20f30e; pears' throe pounds for 25c; grop.-s I Malaga l, 25c a pound; pineapples, :;" and 40 each, rrape fruit, per dozen. 7.V and up. straw berries u' iliforrln), 25c per box. egetables New ce)er. 5c a bunch oyster plant So a hunch, parsnips. 20c a peck; red cabbage ,5c a pounrl sweet potatoes, per pound. 3c, cauliflower. 16c per pound, potatoes, per peek. 20c cabbage, cab-bage, per pound. 3c; turnips, 20c per peck; green onions. 2r, carrots 20c per peck' beets, Vic per peck; lettuce. 6c; pumpkins! 35c; hothouse lettuce. 6c per punch' spinach, four pounds for 25c; California French artichokes-, ln.'rl'ic each; California Califor-nia Brussels sprouts. Pe per ixmnd roen I- - two pounds for 25c; California rie.-ii ocas. 15c a pound California radishes 5 a bunch Dairy Products. Sutter, per pound, 30c Cheese, L'c esgs. per dozen, 3(j35c. fancy cheese, per pound. 25c, comb honey, per ioml, 15c. strained honey, pei pound, 16c Swiss cheese, per pound. 40c. Ilmburger cheese, per pound, 00c; cream brick cheese 86c; Edam cheese, each. Si 25. l-'luh Sn Im.in l?lr- MiiUi.l. I... halibut. 16o; striped has.-. 80c; Ma. k iuaw iron'. 80c; codfish. 16c; peroh. 12 4o' while llsh. 20c, mountain herring, 16c! lobster, 17Vse: select oysters. G0e a o,uart. clams, 3'k.- a dozen. New York Fruits. NEW YORK. Dec 3" E sporated apples ap-ples are In fair demand for attractive grades, and prices were steady in firm. Common are quoted at i'li4e ;' prime, 4", fioc: choice :,i4T and fancy 6 -a 7c' Prunes show a slight Improvement In lone, although the general range of prices remains at 8406340, according to grade., lor California. whll Oregon prunes aro ranging as high ns 6:4c on tho larger sizes Apricots show n0 further change, choice being held nt 4fiPv; extra choice, 11c, and fancy. 121515c. Peaches are said to lw In small supply and are firmly held, with choice 94c; extra ex-tra choice, lin-yr, P ,,,,,i fancv, ll-yfil2 Chicago Grain. CHICAGO. Dec 30. Heavy liquidation i' .. prominent holder todai entirely wlpc-d out a sharp advance In wheat prli es The market closed weak with Slay down 413"e Corn, oats and provisions pro-visions wen practically un hangrd A stampede ' 1 belati d shorts resulted in an advance of over lc In the price of May wheat during the first hour of trading. Influenced by higher cables and exceedingly exceed-ingly mali receipts In the Northwest, opening prl ts showed i tair gain. May b. Ing up 4 to He it S3 144 to P 14. On an urgent demand from short and several prominent commission houses, additional alns w.-re made the price rising quickly to $1 15' before any considerable supply of offerings was dislodged. Some small holders then took advantage of the ad-Nance ad-Nance to secure proilts The result was a reaction to $1,144- An active demand from Northwestern houses, which seemed to indicate a belief In a further reduction of receipts in the Northwest gave renewed encouragement to local hulls, and the buying became more aggressive May sold up to $1.15 For a time the market continued extremely strong, with prices near the highest point. D'itei in th,. day sentiment suddenly changed and sharp reaction occurred tme conspicuous feature fea-ture of the late trading was heavy selling by the leader of the bulls The claim was made that 2.000.msi bushels were sold bv this one operator Pit traders were quick to follow the lead and the selling was quite general during the last hour A report re-port of a St. Louis trade paper waa construed con-strued as bearish the report stating that the winter wheat crop hud been greatly benefited by recent rains and snows I'n-der I'n-der this selling pressure May dropped to $1,134. The market closed weak and practically al the lowest point, nnai qua. ts i Ions on Ma) being at $1,1349L134 Early In the day the advance In wheat had a Strengthening InMu.-ri. on the ( orn markeL Ma) opened v.'V-' to 14c higher it 1540464 to 154c sold between 434 and '4. Vi , and closed at 454c. Th. volume of trading in oats was a slight Improvement over that of recent days May opened Ufj'c higher at 314 to aIC, SOld niT to 311-. and closed at 31Afi , 314e. w An Inclination to take profits had a weakening effect on the provision mar-I mar-I lading was largely local At the ose May pork w as off 24fj5c at $12 75 l.'.i.4; lard was down 24c at 87.0087.084 libs were a shade lower at $6.C5frO . 71.. RANGE OF LEADING FUTURES. Articles. Open. High. Low. Close. hat. No 2 December 1 1314 1 144 1.1J4 111 W 1 144 1.154 1 US 1.13rH Ju'' 994 99V, 98S 9S4 Corn. No. December 46 4S 444 444 3njy 45 16 454 454 Oats, No 2 December 20 j7 094 y 314 314 314 fas JuJ' 314 -U4 314 314 aaaaa rx.rk r-r barrel January . 1.145 12 474v 12.?.', 12 .1-4 M' 1- 774 12 S24 12 75 12 774 Lard, per 100 pounds January .... I 75 $.0 6.75 45.774 M.v 7 "5 7.05 7 00 7 02', Short ribs, per lt pounds-January pounds-January . .B40 C 40 3.'- 37U Mn' 0 67', 45.70 6 65 6 874 CASH QUOTATIONS. Cash quotations were as follows. Flour, steady; No 2 spring wheat, Jl.10491,16; No 3 C48L1I; No 2 red. II 154fll !,l4. No 2 corn HH484c; No 2 yellow. m,44c No. I oats -' '-. No 3 whltr 31'u32c; No 2 rye. 75c, cood f'-'.llac barley, 64J7c; fair to h..r malting 41-o isc; No 1 flax seed. $116', No. 1 North-web-tern. $1.24. prime timothy seed $2 7i-mess 7i-mess pork per barrel. $1105911.15. short ribs slds ilrx.so). $1."3&6 374 short . lenr sldSS Iboxedi. 02S'C 75, Whisky, hnsln of high wines, J1.2I; clover, contract grade, $12 75. KL'. EIPT8 AND SHIPMENTS. Artleles Receipts Shipments. Flour, barrels 21.300 27 .Mm Wheal bushels .... 31.000 41 j.' ' "rn- bllPhrls . . ZU.Vr 4T.I M Cot s, bushels . ... 65.3'M 174 10a liy. bushels . . 1 000 IS, too Barky bushels . 34.700 31.200 PRODUCE EXCHANGE. On tho produces exchungo today the butler market was firm. . r.-ams. 17rf2Sc, dairy if.'-f Mi KKt firm KOttc finu. Etc; prime first., extra. 27e. chesSS, steadj, 11. u.. New York Stock Letter. James A. Pollock & Co . bankers and brokers, 6 West Second South street, furnish fur-nish the following stock letter and gossip, gos-sip, received over their private wire; NEW yORK, Dec 30 Logan and Bran Stock Letter Market closed soft and Irregular Ir-regular and sharpl) lowei for Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed and Ste.-i stocks. The opening was : u.'iig 1.. I bu.i.irit. but '-arl:. in the ee-sl..n ee-sl..n a hear raid developed In Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed whi. h caused a sympathetic decline In the Industrial group, upsetting the entire market The volume cf business bos been large and trading In special stocks ver) heavy. Tho market has had a pretty sharp upturn and tomorrow being the last day of the old year it Is onl natural to expect some profit-taking pending the two days' holiday to come after tho closo thle we, k Aside from the break In the Industrial In-dustrial group, railroad stocks are closing but very little under yesterday's final figures. fig-ures. Tho tone, of the market, while Irregular, Ir-regular, would Indicate, some support mr the better class of stocks. A rather favorable fa-vorable bank statement Is looked for New York Walker Stock Letter We look for a good market after the first of the year. X. w York Hut ton Stock Letter In the Initial dealings today continued strength was noted In the railway list which spread over the entire list of securities, making many new record prices on this move. However, copper t j r nc 1 1 h.- market later which stock broke heavily on the free selling by commission houses on rumors that Law son w a.s in New Jersey applying for a receiver today. The stock had little port If any from Insiders, which ! nt color to these rumors temporarily What- ver h- .li.eq will bo met aggressively and undoubtedly tactics will be used In the market to corner this man's operations. The present market Is not Inflated on the outlook of increased earnings on railroads and larger dividends, and higher prices can be anticipated In the near future hence we believe good stocks can be bought on any weak spots New York T. A Mclntyre .1 Co Stock Letter While the market closed Irregu lar, It showed a pretty good undertone of strength considering the pressure which was brought to bear upon the gen-cial gen-cial list. The movement Is slmplv .-in-otl.ei h.-.-ir Hltatk characteristic of the Boston operator, and his New York following, fol-lowing, and was Well timed for the holidays, holi-days, for after a short session of two lours tomorrow' the market her.- and at London will be closed until the following follow-ing Tuesday Aside from these speculative specula-tive conditions there Jr. nothltij; new in tho general situation The advance to 5 I . r . .-nt In call on money rate at the .-lose today wps merely an Incident The loans not only carry over Into tomorrow, but also Into the new .year and It would have b--en strange indeed If the yeat' ..I.'.oa.I ,,.K...,I IM. ,. 1 1 nV. . . . 1 1 1 v rise in the rate. New York nick Bros Stock i,etter The market was very strong at tho opening open-ing this morning and for a time thereafter, there-after, but the advance stocks were llb-erall) llb-erall) supplied and the rise was cheeked. Before noor Amalgamated Copper turned v...ik main and t.r.-ak 111 it was followed fol-lowed by a Law: on denial of yesterday's Bli P) that he had been Induc ed to stop his attacks. The break In Amalgamated Induced selling in other stocks, ana thi whole list turned" weak, declining sharply sharp-ly In the afternoon and closed very nervous ner-vous at the low prices Apart from the LaWflcn incident ihere was very little news. The s-;-lllng which broke tocks I inie rl, !(! from lte.se spe.ulnthe ln-U-rests which nave had moirt to do wllh t!.c recent advance New York Marshall Spader & Co'S Stock Letter The advance in the market Slni last Friday has about equaled $"' a share In the active list, .at the hlgh-est hlgh-est quotations secured yesterday and to-day to-day Copper sold nearly $1" tL share higher this morning than on lust Krlda and th flexibility Of the mark.-i during the afternoon today was therefore not II n imre.-ioni hie develonment 'r- f-n operators care to be wldel) committed this week and a disposition to ev.-n up n ounts prevails We hae much faith In the influences governing the market and shall consider the list a purchase on any break from the present level which may come about from artificial causes of sensational attacks. New York Summary American stocks In London steady, a shade above parity National Lead officials . I r report of rec Ived mi rk-. r negotiations. Good demand for Amalgamated Copper in loan crowd. Ilarilm in bin Ing n port' d In Baltimore & Ohio. Illinois St.-.-l rail mills will slart full capacity January 2. Amount of proposed Russian loan Issue In II. rlln Increased fr.un JImi.i i,i't, to 8110,000 000 No probability Of material advance In call money rates over turn of the year. Dun's Review for Week. NKV YORK, Dec. 30. Dun's Weekly Etevlea of Trade tomorrow will say: Hollda) week brought the CUStOmST quh t conditions In the business world. Inventories In-ventories anil preparations for annual set-tlements set-tlements monopolising attention sx pt In some branches of manufacture, where Ini-medlate Ini-medlate deliveries were required Severe storms also Interrupted communication and transportation, particularly at the West, but on the whole tin- elements were helpful, for drought was broken in the Pittsburg region Annual reviews Indl- cate that the rear lus made much better bet-ter showing than seemed possible at th. outset, tho second half comparing v.-rv favorably with the first six months and the amount of business on the bocks lu tho leadlnc industries promises still further fur-ther Improvement in m" Traffic returns Of December Indicate that cross eariilnKS Of the railways were 7.2 per cent larger than in the previous year, and foreign commerce for the last week at this p..rt shows an Increase, of $1,54.1.103 In exports and a very large gain of $3.S19 245 In Imports Im-ports as compared with UJ09 Buoyant sentiments prevail In the Iron and steel Industry. Supplies of natb hides are accumulating, accumulat-ing, owing to the liberal movement of cattle-, and the tone Is easy, but small st... ka of branded hides maintain that department depart-ment Woolen Roods are advancing because r,f the upward tendency of raw wool, and purchasers are more willing to place contracts con-tracts at privilege rates. Failures this week number 2.2 in the United States against 232 hist year and 11 In Canada compared with 17 a year ago. Week's Review FTom Eradstreet's. , . I j , i i i ; I v i , i-.. wv, uiauDieci.i . . morrow will s;i Distributive trade generall Is marking time, while past results and future prospects pros-pects are eu' e-cts of consideration. A period ."'f marked. en unexp. '.'! actlv-lt actlv-lt in holiday Roods of hlgh"i ih.in usual quality haei brought to a .lose a -,ir which, because of mrwk.d Improvement in the last quarter has eunded better 'ban it began and certainly in far better shape than seemed possible at the turn of the J ear W hob-sale trade is naturally of the liRht-e liRht-e t at this season of StOi k-t-iklng and the llurrv in raw cotton have tx-en additional chining Influences Rather less than the usual annual clearing saleti have occurred because of the. notable absence of sb" k . of finished goods pressing for sale. ol-lectlons ol-lectlons show some effect from the recent heavv circulation of money in rail lines In niarged receipts Industry Is of notably large volume for this season Of the year-, especially In Iron and steel and kindred lines of manufacture manufac-ture Railway returns are favorable In that Increased earnings are quite general and the only drawback Is the country wide reports of ear shortage At tin- Weft an Important feature has been the ni-eaklng up of th- winter wheat . h .i ight Prices of metals have hardened this week copper on go. Hi demand, advancing t.. the highest point yet reached. Wool Is strong and stocks In dealers' hands are the lightest In years This makes for strength In the finished nrod-u:t. nrod-u:t. business In which however, Is light Boston Wool Market. BOSTON, Dec 30 The close of the Boston Bos-ton wool market for the year ISO! Is characterised char-acterised by remarkable shortage in the amount of wool on hand. In fart, the scarcity of the supply Is occasioning traders trad-ers In this, the chief wool market of th United States, considerable apprehension .-;s to whether serious conditions win bo int.. -red Ik ton- th arrival of a new Clip. T'le Boston Commercial Bulletin has Juat completed Its annual canvass of the wool supply Of the country It will Bay tomorrow that Boston greets lsni "with a startling situation." it finds that the supply sup-ply of wool, domestic and foreign on hand unsold here, Is the smallest carried over In fifteen (rears The Journal reports lhat th' r are of .1! kinds of wool ,,nu tt,000k000 pounds on sale in Boston and that Of this smal iMtnl but 2t,. VM.i.-i ,,r. domestic i inly 42.00O.OUO pounds of domestic word is left unsold in tne l nit en wiaies against 112.0CO.ijOO last year. The total supply of foreign unsold grades is but 11. 50ft. 000 pounds The total supplv of all kinds In th.- country Is ISSS than "d. 000,000 pounds This is K.tld to be tho smallest supply on hand In the United States In a groat Urn It Should be stated thai the mills are heavily stock-d and that millions of pounds belonging to them and not for sale still are stored In this country The Bo -t o stool market remains firm. New York Sugar. NKW YORK. Dec. 30. Sugar, raw. stead) fair refining, 4c; centrifugal, v,- test. Hc: .molasses sugar, 4S- Refine, 1, firm, crushed, i' V; powdered, 96.85; granulated, granu-lated, $'. ;.. St Louis Wool. ST. LOl'IS. Dec. 30. -Wool steady, inedlum grades, combing an.i clothing, 2'.29c; light n". lfi22c: heavy flue, lifl 18c; tub washt d 27fl Hi Treasury Balances. WASHINGTON, Dec SO. Today's statement state-ment Of the Treasury balances in the gen-oral gen-oral fund, exduslvi of th.- 81(0,000,000 gold reserve In the division of redemption, phows Available cash balance, 8142,795,-100; 8142,795,-100; gold, $-S0.13L2;. |