Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-03-03 | Page 9 | Business on Produce Market is Booming

BUSINESS ON PRODUCE MARKET IS BOOMING Scarcity Reported in Poultry, But Fish, Fruit and Vegetables Vege-tables Are Plentiful. Tuesday was a fairly active day on the produce market. In all departments, except ex-cept the poultry market, dealing was quite brisk, and merchants reported a better demand for fish than there has been for somo time. Fish Is somewhat more plentiful now than it has been for several weeks, and now that it Is coming In more freely dealers aro hoping that the demand will keep up. Poultry continues con-tinues anything but plenty, and although the demand is but slight, owing to the high price. It is being supplied almost entirely with eastern stock. Utah birds arc extremely scarce. There are now practically no turkeys on the market. Dealing was good In tho fresh fruit lino Tuesday, oranges and bananas meeting with an unusually good sale. Oranges are very plentiful arid are now at, their best. Fresh lottuco. radishes, young green onions and new cabbage wore features fea-tures of tho market Tuesday and met with a very good sale. They have been shipped Into the city from California and Nevada. Oranges are passing through this city two and three times jvery week to tho east, and reports from the. Salt Lake Route are to tho effect that moro California Cali-fornia fruit is being, shipped to pointa cast of California than over before. Ootton Letter. James A. Pollock & Co., bankers and brokers, 6 West Second South street, fur-nlsh fur-nlsh the following, received over their private pri-vate wire yesterday afternoon-. Logan & Bryan Cotton Letter New York Without any particular brass-band accompanying and for no decided reason other than that tho price at which cotton had been selling were too cheap, today's market lifted Itself up by the boot-straps and showed 16 to 19 points advance. The only real logical reason that was not already al-ready apparent was the Increased good demand for spot cotton at somewhat better bet-ter figures than yesterday. The movement for the day seemed liberal enough, about 24.000 bales at ports against 32.000 last year, and the clearances not -very largo. It seems, however, that the nearby months are rather eagerly sought for by tho biggest spot interests In the cotton trade and only the moro distant options aro neglected and at a discount. Next fall position should hot show quite as large an advance as this crop months, although al-though a continuance of tho dry weather in Texas and a forecast for dry weather tomorrow is still shown. This weather question Is a serious one, and would cause considerable buying If it wero not a fact that a considerable long Interest exists In both October and December cotton. In the long run. It is not dry weather that is feared, the fear being that a wet spring will follow tho lon dry spell. On ajiy recession, re-cession, we arc heartily In favor of the cotton market, as we believe cotton will some day share the same activity that prevails In the wheat market, and Its very cheapness commends It.