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Show BUSINESS IS GOOD ON LOCAL MARKET Excellent Supply of Good Things to Eat Tempt the Purchasers. Business was good on the local pro-dnco pro-dnco market Saturday, It being tlie day on which the housowlfe does her weekend week-end shopping. Tho dealers greeted tho housewife with an excellent supply of good things to cat, Including the sea-Bon's sea-Bon's best offering of fresh vegetables, part of which woro Utah products. Thero was a drop of 10 cents In the prico of flour Saturday, which was wel-somod wel-somod by the public. However, other quotations quo-tations Saturday were practically unchanged. un-changed. There were nice fresh tomatoes on the markot Saturday, and also fine strawberries. strawber-ries. The lntter met with a good sale, despite tho high price. Strawberries are now retailing at 25 cents a cup. Oranges and bananas met with a good sale Saturday. In general tho demand for vegetables and fruit was hotter Saturday than that for meat. Fish sold moderately well. There have been no other radical changes In the prices of meat. Poultry Is rather scarco and consequently the price of the eatable is rather high. Evaporated Fruits. By Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 23. Evaporated apples Steady. Fancy. 10c: choice. SCTSic; prime. GZiJJ)7ic; common to fair. GffiR'hc. Prunes Fairly active. Quotations range from 22c to S3c for California 30-40s. and from 4c to 9c for Orcgons. Apricots Quiet; easy. Choice. 9i(JJ10ic; extra choice. 10ill;c; fancy. 1212jc. Peaches Dull. Choice. 06icf extra choice. 617c: fancy, 7g)7ic. Raisins show no fresh features. Loose muscatels, 22f5c; choice to fancy seeded, UCOScr seedless. 3i43c: London layers, 51.151.20. St. Louis Wool. By Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 2C. Wool Steady, Medium grades, combing and clothing. 20 Z?)25c; light fine. 28tfy24c. heavy tine, 14 20c; tub-washed. 19fip36c. New York Money. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 23. Close: Prime mercantile paper, 4Jtfii5 per cent. Sterling exchange firm, with actual business In bankers' bills at $4.S4.30rP 4.S4.35 for sixty-day bills and at 54.S7.S0 for demand. Commercial bills, $4.S33(gM.Sii. Par sliver. 632 cents. Mexican dollars, 44 cents. Government bonds, steady. Railroad bonds, Irregular. Money on call nominal. Time loans easy and very dull; for sixty six-ty days, 31SP32 per cent; for ninety days, 31 per cent; for six months, 33(S4 per cent. |