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Show ,ILD PLUMS ffl" ICMIEIS Small Berries Are Growing Scarcer; Peach Supply Is Promising. Larue quantifies of wild plums, small, velloiv", delicious of flavor, and highly feco!!,nien'lcd for preserving and jelly-inakiii?. jelly-inakiii?. i'ave been reaching the local ,arl;ct durinir the past week. The fruit forms about the only really new addition to tlie stocks offered locally for sale, and is iiita'h sought by Salt Lake housewives. They ai"e selling at ti cents a pound and eujo'vins b'K demand. Raspberries and cherries are on the wane and are fetching somewhat higher prices than a week ago. Raspberries are quoted at 15 cents a box, or S1.S5 a crate, while cherries are 7 cents a pound. Black currants, too, are on the downgrade and sell at tw-o boxes for a quarter. (Joose-ber (Joose-ber ies are fairly plentiful at present, and are bringing S cents a pound. The rj'ospeet for an ample supply of f: hes is bright, according to deal-V deal-V Cfn0 are now receiving big consign- wits daily. The fruit is cheap, too, for Jr-Mi time of the year, being" offered on ihe open market at three pounds for 2t cents. Apricots, of good eiuality, are ti cents a pound, or tlO cents a crate. Red currants are going well at $1.00 a crate. The cantaloupe market has been braced considerably in the past week, there he-ini,' he-ini,' none but poor slock offered below 13 rents each. Watermelons are worth fi cents a pound. New apples are four pounds for 25 cents. During the closing days of the week Utah sugar corn has been glutting the market, causing a downward trend in price. A dozen big ears, filled to the tip, can be purchased for 25 cents. Summer bqtiash is quoted cheaper than any lime during the season, large product going at three for a quarter. String beans are in Hie flush season and are offered at three pounds for 25 cents. Utah potatoes are .f-tling at eight pounds for 2o cents, or SI. 76 a bushel. Cucumbers were never cheaper than now, being; K cents a dozen. Meat and fish prices hold at the marks set weeks ago. with little suggestion of ' any change, either ipward or downward. A year ago today a fancy rib rolled roast , of beef sold at 28 cents a pound, pot : roast 17' to 20 cents and plain rib roast ;5 cents. Pork was from 22 cents to 2S cents a pound, veal 30 to 35 cents, spring: lamD 30 to 32V'2 cents, hens were 27 cents and broilers 3." cents a pound. |