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Show HUES SCARCE ! 01 THE MARKET Commission Row Merchant! Hare an Average Midweek Mid-week Business. COOL WEATHER HAS GOOD EFFECT ON THE SALES An Abundant Supply of Fresh Fish on Hand: Price Quotations. Thursday was an average midweek busy day among the merchants, lisii deal-ers deal-ers and greengrocers on market row The OOOl late of the weather had a good effect on the vegetable and fish markets There was a full line of nearly all kinds Of fruit and vegetables from which to sc-lei sc-lei L and all appeared fietii and In good condll ion, in Hup. the only marked scarcity noted Was in strawberries. This fruit was Bcarce ami not of average quality. There Will be Inn few more shipments of Cnli-tornia Cnli-tornia strawberries, and the I'tah crop will not . om. in any great .plan i i 1 ut- fo: at least ten days or more The Utah' strawberries will fall far short of supplying supply-ing the demand this season, a the Best information is that there Will not be more than i;c-:hird the avi.Rge crop iuim ! this year The late cold weather and heavy frosts have played havoc with the early Utah strawberries In nearly all parts of the State. Strawberries, scarce and of inferior in-ferior quality, are retailing at 26c a box. Tills is about the height of the orange season, Of this fruit there Is an abundant abund-ant supply. Oranges are unusually pli atlful, but the prices k.-ep up with unaccountable persistency. They retail on the market from B6c to 60c per dozen. At wholesale they command from 18.86 to $4.25 per box. At these prices oranges are in great demand. One commission house alone this week disposed of over 280 boxes In two days. Lemons are plentiful plen-tiful at 80c a dozen; bananas, 30c a dozen. Raspberries and blackberries are each 20c a box Grape-fruit, I0c each; n:--s. per basket. 20b; dntcs. 10c a pound. Cherries Cher-ries sell for 20c per pound. There is Utile or no change hi th. vegetable market. There is an abundance of all kinds, with no advance or reduction iro n former quotations. There Is an abundant supply Of fresh fish on the market, at prices unchanged. Following were Thursday's quotatlt Salmon trout, 36c per pound; salmon, L'Oc per pound; halibut. l"i per pound; catfish, lEc per pound; OoUndera and sol.-s. L6c per pound; Columbia river salmon, sal-mon, lac per pound: shad. 15c per p--kingfish. 15c per pound; Calilon i . smelts, 80c per pound'; striped bass, 25c pi pound; barracuda. i7ic per pound; Eastern East-ern brook trout. 15c each; crabs. 25 eachi'shad roe. 40c per pouqd; dhlckohs, 20c per pound; Utah broilers. 3oc per pound; turkeys, 2oc per pound. LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS. Chicago. CHICAGO, May 23. Cattle Receipts, SnOO; steady; beeves, $4.30fr 6.50; cows. $1. Sufi 4.90; heifers, 88.7005.40; calves, it. '.Ofi '6.50 , Rood to (irlllo steers. $"..,Vt 6.50; poor to medium, $4.30ffi'5. 10. stock-erfl stock-erfl and feeders. $2.905.20. Hogi Receipts, 8400; weak to 5c lower; low-er; light. 86.3506.571; mixed. 86.2606.571; heavy, 86.0006.46; rough heavy. 6.OO0 6,20; pIks. 85.8606.45; good to choice heavy, 16 .3506. 15. Sheep Receipts. IO.OOO -, market steady; natives. 14.6008.26; Westerns, 14.60 06.26; vi-arlmcs, Sfi. imfi ... mi, lambs. ?6..T. i S r.n ; Westei us. Sfi.oof 8.50. Kansas City. , KANSAS CITY. May 23. Cat tin- -Receipts. 3000; market strong; native steers, $4.50ffi 6.00; native cows and heifers. $2.50 0 ) ; Btockors and feeders. 83.5006.00; bulls. $3 4004.60: . calves. $3.5006.00; Western fed steers, 14.2605.60; Western fed cows. $3.2504.75. iios li.ceipts. 10,000; minket weak to 5c lower: heavy. $6.2O0.3; packers. 6.221'7fi.37; light. $6.3006.40; pigs. $8.60 (if 6.00. She-p -Re. elpts. noon; steady : millions. 86.60 06.80; lambs, $6.5008.60: rjmge wethers. $4.7607.00; fed .-wes. $4.001 6.50. Omaha. OMAHA, May 23. Cattle Etecelpts, 7600; steady: native steers. $4.0006.85; Mv, s and heifers, $2.75 4.80; Western stoers, $3.7505.40; Blockers and feeders, $2.7604176: calves, $3.0005.60; bulls and stags. i i Hops -Receipts. H.oon; market, 5010c lower: heavy, $6.9506.16; mixed. $6,050 6.10; light, $6.1506.25, pigs. $5.5017.6.00; bulk. C.Of'.fi 6.15. Sheep Receipts, 1500; stronger; yearling, year-ling, J.VSr.'Tj fi.S5; wethers. $r..50'i7.6.30 ; ewes, ? I oof: 5.50; lambs, $7.5006.60. St. Joseph. ST. JOSS3PH, May 23. Cattle Receipts, Re-ceipts, 1400. Market steady. Natives, 84.2506.00; cows and heifers, $2.35fi5.00; Stock ers anrl feeders. 18.260 1.75 Hogs -Receipts. 16,200. Market .'i'"!".. lower. Top. $6 37; bulk. $5 I'o'o 6.30. . Sheep Receipts, 1400. Market strong. Clipped lambs. S7.O0 , T. o, , li,, -.l yeai- Ungs, $5.7606.60. |