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Show lemons is at least 38 per cent less this year than last. It is only through advance ad-vance orders, of local wholesale dealers that the fruit is being sold at the present pres-ent price in Salt Lake. - ,. New Fruits In. ' ' .: The new arrivals of the week, as already al-ready announced In THE TELEGRAM are -Mississippi .tomatoes, California cantaloupes and new Nevada figs. The rain and cold weather of itoe-last few days have kept back the Utah vegeta-' bles, but the promise is made that with a few days of good weather the Brest of everything, home grown, which means the finest in the world, will be on the market. Wholesale receipts for the week are as follows: -The C. 8. '.Martin com-psny com-psny two cars each of California vegetables vege-tables and Utalj potatoes; one car each 1 of bananas; oranges and lemons, California Cali-fornia cherries, beans and peas. Texas cucumbers and beans. Oregon berries, Utah vegetables and eggs. Other Big Shipments. The W. M. Rash company; one car each of Mississippi tomatoes, bananas and California vegetables, . Colorado berries, Nevada figs, Texas cucumbers, beans and okra, California peaches, apricots and plums, Utah and Eastern poultry and fish. The Utah Fish and Poultry company received dally express shipments of California and Utah fruits and vegetables, vege-tables, Utah and Eastern poultry, fish and Utah eggs. The C. J. Crabtree company; one car each of bananas, oranges and lemons, Utah and California vegetables, Utah, Colorado and Oregon berries. Eetail Price List. The retil prices are as follows: Lemons bring from 25c to 40c a dozen ; oranges from 25c' to 50c a dozen; tangerines, tan-gerines, 25c a dozen: bananas, 15c to 30c a dozen. Pressed fits. 10c a Dackaare: Colorado' has furnished practically all of the strawberries received bn tho local market during the last six days. But few' Utah or Oregon berries have been received and none from Calif orola. This is the first time in several years that berries have been shipped to the local market from the Centennial State. The receipt of berries from Colorado la but another exhibition of the enterprise of the local wholesale dealers. ; Two weeks ago they were notified that but few more berries could be expected from California " and heavy rains and floods in Oregon prevented the shipment of berries from that section sec-tion of the country. - r Called on KissourL Missouri was called on and responded with over 200 cases of twenty-four boxes each. This week the dealers found that neither Utah, California, Oregon nor Missouri would be able to meet the demand de-mand and so Colorado was called on to meet the deficiency in the local market. mar-ket. During the last six days nearly 1000 cases of berries have been received ' from Fruita, Colo. Present indications point to a heavy drop in the price of strawberries during the next week or Un days, which will be welcome news to the housewife who wishes to put up a winter supply of this fruit. Car Lots Coming:. From information received in Salt Lake this morning it is expected that the Oregon berries will arrive in car lots next week. Dr. Hyatt promises several days of good weather in Utah, which will mean that the Utah berries will come with a rush. "Don't buy . berries for putting up before next week" was the advice given by a number of dealers this morning. Two marked advances were reported on other fruits today. Lemons have advanced $1 per box wholesale, 'while oranges are exhibiting a daily advance. As already announced in THE TELE-GRAM TELE-GRAM the crop of both oranges and. dates, 10c to 20c per pound; grapefruit, 40c to $1 dozen; limes, 40c a dozen: strawberries, 15c to 25c; pineapples, 45c each: cocoanuts,' 10c; blackberries, 25c-a 25c-a box: raspberries, 20c cup; cherries, 20c a pound. The poultry and egg market remains unchanged; spring chickens bring from 30c to 40c each; broilers, 30c a pound; dressed hens, 22Vc a pound; tame ducks, 20c a pound. Turkeys are scarce at a pound. Eggs are 20c the dozen; doz-en; butter, 20c to 25c a pound. But few changes are noted in the vegetable market. Potatoes are selling sell-ing at 30c the peck, $1 to $1.15 per bushel; carrots, 6c a bunch; parsnips, two bunches for 5c; new turnips, 5c bunch; Utah lettuce. 5c bunch; the California Cal-ifornia kind, 10c, two for 15c; Texas. 10c a head; Los Angeles, 15c head. 2 for 25c; parsley, 5c the tunch; cabbage, 5c the pound; oyster-plant. 5c a bunch: tomatoes, 15c a pound; string beans, 20c a pound; cucumbers, 6c to 10c each; cauliflower, 20c a pound; rhubarb, rhu-barb, 6c a pound; 7 pounds for 25c; beets, 5c a pound; asparagus, 5c bunch; onions, two bunches for 5c; radishes, three bunches for 6c; 'peas. 10c pound;' spinach, 6c a pound; new potatoes, 5c a pound; mushrooms, 20c a pound. i There have been no changes In ,the prices of meats during the week. Boiling Boil-ing beef is quoted from 8c to 10c; prime ribs, 15c; porterhouse, 20c; stewing stew-ing mutton, 7c to 9c; mutton chops, 10c to 15c; legs, 15c; lamb chops, 22c; veal, 12c to 18c; veal loaf, 20c; pork, 12c to 17c. The fish market offers the following supplies: Salmon, 17c; halibut, 17c; striped bass, 23c; cod, 10c; perch, 124c: whiteflsh. 30c; had. 15c; king fish, 15c; pike, 20c; mackerel, 20c; rock cod, two pounds for 25c; soles and flounders, two pounds for 25c; mountain trout, 40c pound; shrimps, 20c the quart: lobsters, 20c the pound; smoked halibut and salmon, 20c per pound; salt mackerel, two pounds for 20c; herrings, 5c each. Hay, Grain and Straw. Oat straw, per bale, 40c; alfalfa, 85c cwt.; timothy timo-thy baled, $1 cwt.; wheat, per cwt., $1.601.65; corn, per cwt., $1.30; cracked corn, cwt.. $1.40; oats, cwt., $1.90; rolled oats, $1.95; barley, rolled, $1.60; flour, bakers' No. 1, $2; flour, straight grade, $2.20; flour, high patent, $2.40; rye, $2.50; graham flour, $2.502.70; cornmeal, $2.00 2.50, ten pounds for 30c; bran, $1.10; bran and shorts, $1.10. |