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Show HOLIDAY APPEARANCE IN THE MARKET STALtS each of New Jersey and California sweet potatoes, one car of California navel oranges, one of bananas, one of Utah potatoes, two cars of California apples, express shipments of grapes, tomatoes and smoked fish. The following retail prices are quoted Market Basket Quotations. Apples are offered at $1.25 to $1.75 a bushel, lemons remain at 40c the doxen, oranges are scarce at 30c to 60c the dozen, pears at $1.25 to $1.50 the bushel. Grape prices by the basket are as follows: fol-lows: White, 60o; bananas are 16c to 25c the dosen. Grape fruit two for 25c. Prunes, 15c basket. Cranberries, 15c a quart. Poultry and Eggs - The local market Is beginning to assume as-sume a Thanksgiving and Christmas appearance, with Its display of turkeys tur-keys :ind cranberries, - apples, mince-; meat, figs, dates, oranges, etc. Wholesale Whole-sale dealers promise that both quality and quantity will be equal. If not excel, ex-cel, that of any previous year. AH kinds of Utah vegetables, including includ-ing potatoes, show a marked advance m wholesale price during the week. The same is true of cranberries. Retail prices, however, show but little change. California hothouse tomatoes and strawberries continue to appear on the local market. Grapes are nearly at an end. only a few express shipments being be-ing received. Fish and poultry continue to arrive In large lots without change in prices. The latter is expected to show "a marked advance during the next two weeks. Meat prices show no change. Wholesale Receipts. Wholesale receipts for the week are as follows: The O. J. Crabtree company One car each of bananas, lemons and sweet potatoes. po-tatoes. California figs, cocoanuts, bloaters, bloat-ers, fish, poultry and oysters, Utah and California vegetables, California grapes. The W. M. Rash company One car each of New Jersey and California sweet potatoes.' cranberries, bananas, lemons, Moab apples. Moab pears, Nebraska Ne-braska eggs, two cars of Utah potatoes, grapes, Utah and California vegetables, fish, oysters and poultry. The C. S. Martin company-; One car The poultry and egg market remains the same as last week; spring chickens, 40c to 50c each; broilers, 22c the pound; hens, 20c a pound; tame ducks, 20c a pound; wild ducks, mallards, 60c the pair; teals, 30c a pair; eggs 30c to 35c per dozen; butter, 3ie and 40c a pound. But few changes are quoted in the vegetable market; pumpkins remain re-main the same, 15c, 20c and 25c each, beets are two bunches for 6c, five for 10c; the same price holds good on green onfons, turnips and carrots; old onions are 5c a pound.- First-class cauliflower brings 12c a pound, potatoes are 20c a peck, 75c a bushel; new cabbage, 5c the pound; string beans may be had at 10c per pound; celery, 5c and 10c, the same as last' week; hubbard squash, from 10c to 25c each. Fish, Oysters and Meats. The market Is well supplied with fish and oysters at the following rices: Sea bass, 15c per pound; shad, the same; whltefish, 20c per pound; sturgeon. stur-geon. 15c per pound; perch, 15c; codfish, 15c; halibut 15c; striped bass, 20c; salmon, sal-mon, 17ttc;' Mackinaw trout, 20c; soles and flounders, 12l?c; piks, 20c; black bass, 30c; fresh mackerel, 20c; catfish, 15c; smelt, 15c; barracuda, 15c; bonita, 15c a pound; oysters, 50c quart; clams, 60c quart. There have been no changes In the prices of meats during the week. Boiling Boil-ing beef Is quoted from 8&c to 10c; prime ribs, 15c; porterhouse, 20c; stewing stew-ing muttons, 7c to 9c; mutton chops. 10c to 15c; legs, 15c; lambs chops, 22c; veal, 12c to 18c; veal loaf, 20c; pork, 12c to 17Vc. |