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Show IKS 11 . FROM MARKETS High Price Prevents Dealers Deal-ers From Handling Citrus Luxury. At 78 cents per dozen wholesale for oranges, Salt Lake retailers have refused to handle the fruit. There is none on the market. "The price has gone up so steadily that the venture even for a single case Is too hazardous and Involves too much of a. cash investment to warrant the outlay. I have quit handling oranges until the market gets reasonable," said a dealer on Market Row yesterday. Cases containing 200 oranges are quoted by the jobber at $13, while those containing contain-ing 150 and 176 are offered at $14. The 80's and 90's are quoted at $10 per case, according to the same authority. He declared de-clared that few, If any, Salt Lake dealers deal-ers would enter the orange market even on the smallest plan. Other citrus fruits, however, are selling at fairly reasonable figures. Lemons are from 40 to 50 cents a dozen, with choice grapefruit offered at 20 cents each. Lower Low-er grades are selling at correspondingly lesser prices. Heavy receipts of margarines and nut butter substitutes have been noted In the local market the past few days, and, under the pressure of lower prices for these goods, the butter market has slumped, taking eggs with It. Last week the best grades of creamery butter were selling at 70 and 72 cents a pound. With substitutes plentiful at 40 cents a pound, the price of the dairy goods has receded to 6o cents for the top. Eggs, too, have slumped 5 cents a dozen for the best, selling how at 65 cents. Ranch butter is obtainable at 55 and 60 cents a pound in some places, and a good second-grade creamery stock is selling at 60 cents. Although predictions have been made that spuds would ultimately this fall reach unprecedentedly high prices, no Increase In-crease was noted during the week. In fact, potatoes are selling under a rather weak market. In 100-pound lots the best potatoes are offered at J1.90, and in bushel lots at $1.10. These prices obtain In the regular saleshouses, the city market mar-ket prices being slightly lower. The city market, however, inclines to Jobbing business, busi-ness, and, according to an intimation by Market Master George H. Sutton, small orders are not acceptable. Cabbage is quoted at 3 and 4 cents a pound and cauliflower at 12 cents a pound. Celery, quality stuff, fetches from 5 to 10 cents a plant, and sweet potatoes are worth three pounds for 25 cents. Cranberries are selling at 20 cents a pound. Apples of all kinds and qualities are flooding the market at present. Jonathans are going In small lots at four pounds for a quarter; other sorts are selling proportionately propor-tionately low. There is a fair flow of poultry on the market, with the common barnyard variety vari-ety in greatest quantity. Common hens are quoted at 37M; cents per pound; roasters, 40 cents, and broilers, 45 cents. Turkeys are offered at 40 cents per pound, under light demand. The fish market is bracing up in the matter of variety. Salmon is 30 cents a pound; shrimps. 35 cents; halibut, 30 cents; silver smelts, 25 cents; kippered cod, 40 cents: kippered salmon, 45 cents, and Finnan haddock, 35 cents a pound. Alfalfa hay, according to local dealers. Is very scarce at present, although reports re-ports have contemplated a good crop In the outlying farming sections. Following are the retail prices of hay, grain and certain vegetables: Alfalfa. $26 per ton; timothy. $28; wheat, $4 per hundredweight; corn, $1 ; oats, $3.60; mixed hen feed. $4 ; barley, $3.70; onions (dry), $2.35; potatoes, $1.90. TWO MORE DEATHS OCCUR AT EUREKA Special to The Tribune. ECREKA, Nov. 8 The Influenza situation sit-uation is much improved In Eureka today. to-day. No new cases have been reported and there have ben only two deaths. Neil F. Bonner, one of the two victims, died this morning. He was a clerk at the Chief Consolidated mine. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. Mary Bonner; three Bisters Mrs. R. J. Bernard. Mrs. Dale Ostraiider and Miss Eliza Bonaar, and two brothers, Edward and Patrick Bonner, all of Eureka. Mr. Bonner was 26 years of ago. Funeral services will be held tomorrow to-morrow afternoon. Dorsey Ivle, a miner, 26 ycArs of agr;, died this evening. He is survived by his wife and a baby a few months of ae, antl his mother. Mrs. W. C. Ivle. Funeral arrangements have not been made, u i i |