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Show -POOR ORANGE -CROP CAUSES HIGH PIE Quotations Also Reflected on Lemons ; Eggs and ' Butter on Incline. Beef and Other Meats Maintain Levels; Turkeys Sent to Cold Storage. In HUtJ the California orange crop yielded 37,100 cars; in 1917, the crop was 4(5.501 cars; this year the estimated crop is n.f'00 cars. in 131 tj prices ranged from 30 to 50 cents per dozen; fn 1017 from 40 to 65 conts per do;;en; this year, thus far, the nuotations on the retail stands are from 150 cents to 51.10 a dozen. -i Figures on the crop yield for the years 191G, 151J and 1318 are submitted by lo-jr lo-jr cal wholesalers, or commission brokers, in justification of the high price of oranges or-anges in Salt Lake this season. They i-ay the California orange crop, except in a few isolated districts, is practically a failure, due to hot winds which swept the Kedhinris and other important plantation planta-tion territories devoted to the culture of V citrus fruits, at a time when the fruit was in the stage of "setting." The hot wave was particularly destructive in the Kiverside and Pomona growing districts. Jn these places scarcely sufficient oranges or-anges were grown to satisfy the trade of those localities, according to reports and statements carried in citrus fruit market journals. Wholesale Prices. ' , "Wholesale prices for oranges range ! from $K.25 to $9.25 per crate, the price being fixed according to the size of the , fruit contained in the crate. Florida . oranges are selling locally at 25 cents per"! crate lower than the California product, ; and while Florida produced a good crop i this season, the great distance from the j Salt Lake market prohibits shipments in large quantities when all conditions ! are equal ' in California. The Florida 1 product, dealers declare, is not in as : groat demand in Salt L.akoas the Call- j lorn fa fruit, chiefly on account of the ; peculiarly unattractive appearance of the southern citrus goods, the skin of which ; is always greenish and inclined to be spotted. California fruit, at the height of maturity, is a golden color and usually without skin blemish of any sort. Lo- j cal commission merchants, however,, de- clare th;;t the Florida orange contains ail the elements of the very best California Cali-fornia fruit, acid, sugar and flavor. None of the dealers expect any particular reaction re-action in the orange market, although; shipments are not believed to be coming us rapidly at the present moment as they j may later on. I Effect on Lemons. The huoy-n-'y of the orange market has hnd it?; effect on the lemon section, j, the price of the latttr picking up steadily j r in the laet four weeks, until the best I qua lit y fruit 'k now selling at (ii cents a dO'en. Grapefruit is from 15 to 25 ; cents earh, j The local market is not showing a wide ! a:-'M.'rtm.-)it of apples, and what do come . to tin- stalls are short in both quality and quantity. Only pitted, and spotted goods are bing sold at anything like , V reason-! hi'- figures, the best going, in small hits, at 10 cents a pound. Dates and figs. too. are higher than in past years, an ft the trade, retailers say. is hardly wo'-th while at the market fig-uifs. fig-uifs. About the only thing In the fruit seel ion of the home bourse that has shown a reaction downward in the past wpek is the persimmon, prices having dropped rrf u cents a pound. The fruit is now selling at H5" cents a pound. Tn the dairy produce section, eggs and butter are still enjoying top position in the high cost percentage column.. Eggs, for storage goods, are quoted at 55 cents a dozen, but. for fresh stock the ultimate consumer must pay 75 cents. Ranch butter is going at 55 cents a pound, while cream erv poods are selling at 75 cents a pound, cheese is higher than usual, the best full cream product retailing at -10 and -15 cents a pound. Beef Unchanged. Hoof and other butcher stuff hold their own in the mat tor of price, and fish, too. stands at quotations of a week ago, The surplus stocks of turkey, loft over from the Thanksgiving trade, have been rushed Into cold Btnrngo against the coming of t he Christmas festal rush. Th.-re was no recession in the price of turkov or any other grade of poultry at the fag end of the Thanksgiving marketing, market-ing, although some merchants offered some old stored stock to meet the demands de-mands for cheaper turkey on Wednes-dav Wednes-dav afternoon and evening. A fair supply of tame rabbit is to bo - found on the 'market, but commanding prices equal to those asked for turkey. Belgian bares are selling at 0 and 42 cents a pound for dressed stock. Common Com-mon rabbit is 37 and 40 cents. Xo wild stuff baa been, offered for local trade as vet. , California is shipping In vast quantities quanti-ties of small vegetables, such ns caull-y caull-y flow vr, lettuce, radishes, bunch stock, green peas, parsley, peppers and sweet potatoes, while Utah is still supplying the host ceK'i-v the borne market ever afforded. Spuds. Utah stock, are selling at ten pounds for 25 cents in small lots, and about $1.80 per hundredweight for the larger Fales. |
