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Show dressed, 13c a pound; spring chickens, dressed. fOc a pound; mallards, 30a each; teal, tac eac. Dairy products are quoted as follows: Butter, creamery, cream-ery, JOe a pound; ranch, 20c a pound; eg?s, S0C a dosen. . There has been no change in the price of meats during the week. Boiling beef is quoted from 8ft to 10c: prime ribs, 15c; porterhouse, 20c; stewing mutton, 79c; mutton chops. 1015c; legs, 15c; spring -lamb,, per quarter, JL003I.25; veal, 12 20c; veal loaf, 20c a pound; pork, 1017c a pound. , FINE VARIETY OF "GOOD THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS! Salt Lake Market Well Supplied With .the Choicest Delicacies to Be Had at This Season - doien; pears, 6c a pound; by the bushel, tl to $1.25; limes, 20c a doseni grapes, black, 15c a pound; Tokay, 10c; pomegranates, pome-granates, 12V4c a pound. t Pineapples, 5 to 40c each; quinces, 5c a pound. . ' The following -prices are quoted on vegetables: -Celery, 6c a stalk; oyster plants. 6c a bunch; Chinese radishes, 5c a bunch: parsnips, 6c a bunch, 20c a peck; peppers, three pounds foy 25c; red cabbage, four pounds for. 25c; sweet potatoes, eight pounds for 25c; cauliflower, cauli-flower, 10c a pound; turnips, 25c a peck; green onions, three bunches for 10c; carrots and beets. 2c a bundh; Utah lettuce, 6c; California, two for 15c; dills,-6c dills,-6c a bunch; chile peppers, 25c a pound; parsley, three bunches for 10c; potatoes, pota-toes, 20c a peck; new spinach, three pounds for 25c; Hubbard squash, 10c to 25c; curly kabol, 5c a bunch; cauliflower, cauliflow-er, 12c a pound; cabbage, 3c a pound; artichokes, 10c each; Brussels sprouts, 12V4c a pound. Fish prices, are as follows: Walleyed Wall-eyed pike,-20c; sturgeon, 15c; sea bass, 15c; codfish, 15c; Idaho trout, 40c; black bass, 35c; halibut, 15c; striped bass, 20c; Mackinaw trout, 20c; soles and flounders,, floun-ders,, 12c; mackerel, fresh, 20c; salt, 1583:c; fresh codfish' Y-r; looter. 2'w. brook trout, 40c; blueflsh," 20c: red snappers, 20c; pike, 20c; finnan haddle, 12c. Oysters are quoted at 75c a can for New York counts; extra selects are 50c a can, and New York counts are selling sell-ing at 30c a dozen. The following prices are quoted on poultry: . Hens.- alive. 10c per pound; Greater" variety and better quality of fruits and Tegetables are offered for the local Christmas trade this year than ever before. Among other things, the market offers strawberries, ripe tomatoes, toma-toes, green peas, wax and string beans, radishes, young onions, cucumbers, the best of Utah and Kansas turkeys and chickens, Idaho and Utah trout, the finest of apples from Utah, Idaho, Oregon Ore-gon and Colorado, the best of oysters, corn fed beef and home fed pork, veal and sheep, pineapples, oranges and lemons, of which no finer can be bought anywbere, the best of fish from all parts of the country, nuts, figs and dates from the best markets in the world. The Salt Lake market is said to be one of the most particular in the country coun-try in the class of goods offered for sale. If the goods are poor the price will be poorer. One local dealer received re-ceived a shipment of apples three weeks ago which were not of the best quality. He offered them for 75 cents a box. Since then he has sold five carloads of the better class of the same fruit at from $1.50 to $2 a box, and still has many cases of the poor goods on his hands. In speaking of the Salt Lake market, C. J. Crabtree of the Crabtree Commission company, who has had over fifteen years experience in the business, said: "The Salt Lake market is one of the most. If not the most, particular in the country. Good goods will sell, but poor goods can hardly be given away. Shippers Ship-pers have learned that this city Is not a dumping ground for their poor stock. If they ship to this market they must send the best that they have, or they had better keep their goods out of the market, for they cannot be sold. There is not a city in the country thatfters better goods to the buyer than are offered of-fered in Salt Lake and, as a rule, the prices are lower than in any other city." , 1 -,' During' the week the W. M. Rash company received a car of Kansas corn fed turkeys and chickens, a-car each of Oregon apples, oranges, Idaho' ap-plee. ap-plee. Eastern eggs and one of lemons, with large shipments of Texas radishes and onions. Central American pineapples, pineap-ples, Idaho trout, crabs, lobsters, Chinook Chi-nook salmon, bass, soles, herrings and sealshlpt oysters. The jCrabtree company com-pany received two cars of Sunflower oranges, one of Utah' cabbage, one of California sweet potatoes, one of bananas, ba-nanas, one of Colorado apples and one of Eastern eggs, with heavy shipments of Utah dressed turkeys and chickens, California vegetables, including fresh tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, onions and Brussels sprouts, all of which have arrived ar-rived by express and are in fine condition. condi-tion. The Martin company received two cars of oranges, one of lemons, one of Utah apples and one of bananas, together to-gether with shipments of strawberries, green peas, cucumbers, wax and string beans, tomatoes, smoked white fish and haddle and a large shipment of white plume celery from Springvllle. Hancock Han-cock Bros, received a car of Idaho apples, ap-ples, 15,000 pounds of dressed Utah turkeys, tur-keys, another shipment of winter watermelons from Green River, a shipment ship-ment of fine persimmons and a shipment ship-ment of fancy bloaters, codfish and smoked whiteflsh. Local dealers report retail prices as follows: - - " Apples, 30 to 60c a peck'; figs, 10c per package; lemons, 25c & dozen; oranges, 40 to 60c a dozen; bananas, 2$ to 40c a |