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Show TURKEYS SOARING Oil LOCAL MARKET 48 Cents Per Pound Quoted by Dealers for Holiday Poultry. Higher Quotations Are Expected; Ex-pected; Scarcity of Supply Blamed for Price. Turkeys sold on the local market yesterday yes-terday at 4S cents a pound. Tnis, as far as pioneer dealers of Salt .Lake remember, is a higher price than the holiday bird has ever commanded in the retail market mar-ket of Salt Lake. While the foregoing price was "top" yesterday, some being offered at -12 and 4o cents, retailers declare there will probably prob-ably be new high quotations before Christmas marketing is done for the season. sea-son. Some there are who freely predict 50 cents a pound, and none admit a possibility pos-sibility of a lesser price than that ruling Friday. Shortage of stocks is universally made the excuse for the soaring price of turkey, tur-key, commission men and direct buyers who handle in retail lots, loo, declaring there are no birds to be had in the country. coun-try. One or two of the usually heavier dealers have dropped from tlie market entirely, except for the purpose of supplying supply-ing customers who are depending on them for the Christmas dinner centerpiece. center-piece. One market row but clier. who at Thanksgiving enjoyed a big trade tn poultry poul-try of all sorts, especially turkeys, yesterday yester-day declared he could not afford to handle han-dle the choice meat for Christinas, and would only fill one order, that being for some seventy birds, going to one house. He had about fifty turkeys on hand and had scouts out trying to buy the re-, mainder. Geese Going Up. j Predictions were freely made that a price of J-!5 cents a pound would probably prob-ably hold for domestic ducks an chickens, chick-ens, but grave doubts lyere expressed about that price holding for geese, which are said lo be quite scarce. Geese are expected lo trail turkeys in the latter's excelsior movement and may reach the 40-cent mark today. Following the trail blazed by the turkey, tur-key, eggs yesterday engaged in an upward up-ward flurry, strictly fresh stock being quoted at SO cents a dozen. There were few to be had, however, and storage goods controlled Ihe trading. These were sold from GO to 7'" cents a dozen, according accord-ing to quality. Butter is holding about the same as a week ago. with ranch stock offered at 65 and creamery at 73 J cents a pound. Oranges have not tumbled from the high perch they assumed early in the I season, and, while the market is fairly plentifully slocked, prices are 50 cents a , dozen for "walnuts" and $1.10 for the j bigger size. Brussels sprouts are CO cents a pound, lettuce 10 cent s a head, celery from 5 I cents up, sweet polatocs three pounds for J 1 cents, cabbage 5 cents a pound, cran- berries 2,". cents a pound, mixed nuts -10 cents a pound, and tomatoes, poor quality, i 10 cents a pound. ! Strawberries Seen. Some strawberries. imported from southern 'alifornia, were to be- seen in high places on Ihe local bourse yesterday, yester-day, but they were marked cents a basket of a pint measure. Pish prices arc stationary, with oysters selling at r-fi cents a pint and $1 a quart. , Tiie market is showing a fair variety of fish, including shell oysters. An investigation of retail prices of beef, mut ton, pork and veal shows tha t in the past three weeks there has been quilo a noticeable reduction in all lines. Three weeks ago beef was retailing at from U. to 10 cents a pound; today the prevailing prices range from 15 to "o cents. I'ork was 45 to 50 cents, now HO to 40 cents: veal, 2-5 lo 40 eenl-s. now 20 . to 35 cents; mutton, 25 lo 35 cents, now 17 to 2S cents. Although all milling restrictions, includ-ing includ-ing fair price schedules, havo been re- s'-inrled by the Urn' ted Stales grain corporation, cor-poration, no effect was observed on the local grniiUand flour market. Bran, it is I rue, is reporter I very scarce and may ' he suhjeel In a raise in price. The present pres-ent figure is $12 per ton. Notice of the ! lifting of restrict ions was received hy : M. II. Ci recti e, Utah representative of ihe ; federal grain corporation, in a telGgram from D. F. IMaz.ek of Kansas City. Mo. 1 Dealers report strength in the hay section sec-tion of the i rod uoo. ma rke t . A I fa 1 fa Is quoted at $1.45 a hundredweight and lim-othv lim-othv at $1.50 a hundredweight. Other prices per hundredweight are; Wheat, j:;.7:.; oats, J3.50; barley. $3.35; hen feed. I S:!.S0; corn, $3.7o; bran (very scarce). I $2.10; flour. $5.40; potatoes, $1.S5; dry I onions, 52. 25. |