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Show CARLOAD OF KB TURKEYS ARRIVE Toothsome Birds Are Selling at Slight Advance Over Utah Product. A carload of corn-fed Kansas turkeys arrived In Salt Lake City Monday and Is on sale at the wholcshlc markets on Ecclcs avenue at from 26 to 27 cents a pound. This Is about a cent a pound more than Utah turkeys are bringing. Turkeys on the rotall market are marked at 30 cents a pound and the Christmas sale Is just beginning. Sweet pointed; arc arriving almost dally from Kansas and California. There will bo no more shipments from Virginia Vir-ginia on account of the cold weather. The Kansas Hweet potatoes arc a Utile cheaper thun those from California. A car of cabbage and potatoes was unloaded un-loaded by the W. I. Frank "Produco company com-pany Monday, and thlB II nil announced that It will receive a carload of mixed fruit and vegetables from California this morning. The displays of ornnges and apples on the retail market were attractive and there was a fair amount of each of these fruits being sold. There wcro a great many cocoanuts on the market, but thej were not In heavy demand. There was a large quantity of Christmas Christ-mas decorations and specialties on th market, sclllngc. fasl. The supply of staple fruits and vegetables, however, although al-though good, was being slighted Monday. Mon-day. Meat "and fish prices remained the same that they were last week and staple articles, like (lour, sugar and potatoes, po-tatoes, will stay where they are until after the holidays. Tho prices arc tho same that they have been for some lime and there was little demand for any of thcin Monday. Now York Money. NEW YORK. Dec. 19. Close-Sterling Close-Sterling exchange strong, with actual business in bankers' bills at J4.82.505t 4.S2.60 for demand and at 54.S5.60 for sixty-day bills. Commercial bills, $4.Sli5J4.S24. Bar silver. 543 cents. Mexican dollars. 45 cents. Government nnd railroad bonds steady. Money on call steady, 35?3i per cent; ruling rate. 32 per cent; closing bid. 31 per cent; offered at 32 per cent. Timo loans, weaker: for sixty day bills and ninety bills. 3355H per cent; for six months, 335j'4 per cent. Coffee Futures Steady. NEW YORK. Dec. 10. CofTec Futures closed steady at a not loss of 65iU2 points. Sales. 22.000 bags. December and January. 11.00c; February. 11.02c; March. 11.03c: April, 10.05c: May. I0.02c; June. lO.SSc; July. lO.SIc; August. 10.76c: September, Sep-tember, J0.71c; October. 10.61c; November. Novem-ber. 10.56c. Spot coffee, qulei; No. 7 Rio. 13Jc; No. 1 Santos. 13Jc; mild coffee, quiet; Cordova. Cor-dova. I335?153c. The New York coffee exchange will ob-servo ob-servo Saturday. December 21, as a holiday. holi-day. Coffee Exchange Will Close. NEW YORK. Dec. 19. The coffee exchange ex-change here will be closed December 24 and 26 aud January 2. |