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Show tuce, 5 and 10 cents a pound, and string beans 20 cents a pound. There is no marked change in the dairy products market. Butter sells at 40 to 50 cents per pound, according1 to quality, qual-ity, and eggs from 30 to 40 cents per dozen. Beef, mutton, veal and pork prices have suffered no change in the last week, and few butchers are reporting cut prices for the week-end. The poultry department is offering a few early turkeys at 40 cents a pound. Hens for stewing are bringing 38 cents per pound, springers 55 cents and pigeon squabs 90 cents to $1 a pair. ON LOCAL MARKET Prices High, but Stocks Seem to Be Meeting Ready Demand. California is crowding the local market with fruits just now, and promises to fairly inundate the bourse as the ripening ripen-ing season progresses. Besides congesting the Salt Lake market mar-ket with the best quality of strawberries strawber-ries ' seen here this season, California, during the last week has supplied the first fruits from the apricot, peach, gooseberry goose-berry and loquat growing sections. Melons, Mel-ons, too, in small quantity, are arriving from the Golden state. Prices governing these new fruits, however, are high, but thus far stocks have been readily disposed of. Peaches have been quoted at 40 cents a pound, gooseberries at 25 cents a cup, apricots at 25 cents a pound and loquats a nickel less than apricots. The loquat is a hybrid hy-brid fruit, having some of the ear-marks of a golden plum as well as some of the apricot. The mixed flavors of both those fruits are contained within its yellow skin. The loquat is juicy, sweet and pleasing to the palate. Melons are selling sell-ing at 12 cents per pofnd. xhe price of sweet cherries dropped a (T nickel a pound yesterday, going from 30 cents to 25 cents. Bananas, in sympathy sym-pathy with oranges, have taken a shoot skyward in the last week or ten days, and are retailing from 35 to 45 cents per dozen, or 9 cents per pound. Retailers claim that even at those high figures the banana market is bereft of profit to them, as the commission men are demanding de-manding 8 cents per pound for the fruit in the bunch. The stalk is included. Strawberries (dollar berries) have settled set-tled to reasonable figures again, and are selling at two cups for 25 cents as a general rule. In some isolated instances, however, a price of 15 cents straight is asked. Pineapples are coming to the domestic market in. quite ponsiflerable number, and are fetching 25 cents each. Oranges sell from 40 cents to $1.50 per dozen. Tomatoes took a brace yesterday and called for 25 cents per pound. Stocks are lower than they have been since April 1. The vegetable stands are offering no wider variety of goods than usual, but the quantity is greater and, consequently, conse-quently, some prices are lower. New potatoes po-tatoes sell at three pounds for 25 cents. Cucumbers, 5, 15 and 20 cents each, according ac-cording to size, young onions three bunches for a nickel "and radishes three for a dime. Rhubarb is cheaper than ever, selling at 2 cents per pound; let- |