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Show HENS CALL STRIKE OFF; PRICE OF EGGS TUMBLES Lenten Season Keeps Many Varieties of Fish in Strong Demand; Vegetables Scarce. . The Increase In the supply of eggs and' the consequent decrease In their price are the features of the local market. mar-ket. Ten days ago eggs were retailing at 40 and 45 cents per doxen, and today they" are half that price. A good freeh quality may be secured at 20 cents per doten. while those of an Inferior grade can be bought for a nickel lees. The demand is strong because of the Lenten season, many persons preferring prefer-ring this food to fish. The increase is due to the warmer weather, which has caused the hens to become industrious. In the fish market, the demand this week has taxed the supply, and there were some times when the favorite varieties va-rieties were out of the market altogether. alto-gether. Bi& Demand for Salmon. Salmon, which was out of some of the WAR IN ORANGE ' MARKET IS AGAIN WAGED BT DEALERS. ( The flght for the orange trade was renewed yesterday when one dealer ( on Market Row received a shipment () of this fruit from California. He 0 at once cut the price of 20 and SO cents per doten for navel oranges (g , to 10 and 15 cents. Other dealers m 0 have followed suit, though some of w them declare they are losing mon- ey. A few dealers are holding up ) () the old prices but are not disposing w of much fruit. ( markets two days this week. Is- today 20 cents a pound. Black bass and halibut hali-but are in good demand, bringing IS cents per pound. There is a small quantity of mountain trout on the market, retailing, at 40 cents per pound. New Tork oysters, counts, are quoted at $1.60 per hundred. Sturgeon brings 15 cents per pound. Pompano, is 25 cents per pound; clams, 35 cents per dozen; bonlto, barracuda.' shad, codfish, catfish, sea . bass and smelts all bring 14 cents per pound. Heat May Go Higher. The meat market is quiet and though no advance is noted in any of the retail prices it la understood that the wholesalers whole-salers are paying; a little more for their meats than they were ten days ago. It is believed that the Increased prices of beef and mutton will soon affect the local lo-cal market. There are no jackrabblts or mountain hare for sale today, their season being about over. Roast beef is quoted at 22 and 2S cents per pound; mutton, from 5 to 20 cents per pound, depending on the cut; porterhouse steaks. 20 cents; round steak, 12ft cents; ribs of beef, 15 to 20 cents; bacon, 25 cents; ham, 20 cents a pound. The demand for poultry and game Is fair, turkeys and chickens, roasting-size, roasting-size, being- especially favored. There Is a fair supply of ducks, though they are of poor quality. The mallards bring 30 cents and the teal 25 and 35 cents per pair. Turkeys bring 25 cents per pound and chickens from 17V to 20 cents per pound. Creamery butter is quoted at 25 cents per pound, the supply being about equal to the demand. Country butter brings but 20 cents per pound. Few Vegetables In Market. In the vegetable market sweet potatoes pota-toes have gone out of season. A few, however, still hang; on at IVt cents per pound, but when these have gone the the supply will have been exhausted. There is a demand for parsnips at 65 cents per bushel; turnips, beets and carrots car-rots bring 60 cents for the same quantity, quanti-ty, while yellow danvers and silver-skin silver-skin onions sell at 25 cents per peck. California radishes, green onions, lettuce, let-tuce, parsley, artichokes and brussels sprouts continue on the market, though the supply is scarcely equal to the demand. de-mand. The first three sell for 5 cents per bunch and the latter two for 15 cent per pound. It is probable that the Utah radishes, lettuce and onions will be in within the next two weeks. Cocoanuts are 6, 10 and 15 cents each, grape fruit at 10 cents each; bananas, 30 and 35 cents per dozen; lemons, 25 cents per dozen; dates, 12 cents per pound, and figs 7 cents per pound. Oregon apples and Missouri plpplna are the only representatives of this class of fruit on the market. They bring 6 cents per pound. Utah's crop Is exhausted, the last having been disposed dis-posed of this week. Cranberries at 12 '4 cents per quart, and cellar-raised rhubarb rhu-barb at 15 cents per pound are plentiful in the markets and complete the list oft fruits. |