| Show FRUIT CHOP FALLING fruit dealers say that at the thresh hold old ot of the poach peach harvest the market Is s a little panicky it being a certainty that hat the tha fruit growers will not realize is 28 much on their crops as was waa anticipated ci and not as much as they could have contracted for in the earll earli or part 0 of f the season beason tho the cause of the slump in prices in the eastern market Is not easily accounted for manager white ot of the utah fruit exchange says however that there are some pretty heavy shipments ot of peaches coming to ahe the market at about the time the utah crop will bo be ready and that there is a slight Rn financial ancial depression prevailing which usually precedes campaign years peaches from michigan are on the market in large quantities selling belling at 1 a bushel which means about 40 cents a case colorado la Is ready mady to place heavy shipments ohio la Is coming along with lots iota of fruit which taken all in all indicates that the utah fruit Is not going to have a very easy time on the auction boards it la 13 said too by the dealers that while tho the western fruit growers are ara getting together on the prices they shall ask for the product eastern people who ho are handling it are getting together on tho the question ot of what they shall pay tor for the pc peaches aches so bo that in the long run the play will be about oven even and medium prices will prevail in the early part ot of the year mr white says he contracted for 75 care cara of poaches peaches at 53 cents centa they have all been placed in the markets mors more would have been purchased at that figure but the thought the market price would increase rattier than than diminish and they refused to contract the opinion now prevails i that growers will have to sell at from t 5 ep il bi ebbat peaches will drop aa joy low as 03 40 cents mr L states however thit that the exchange wah flir furnish nish beatr prices to the growers than they will get else where arid and be besaya says that the fruit men shoud not get excited over the condition of the market and begin to dispose of their fruit at lob job lot prices it will be nearly september esth before the crop wll will bo be ready for tho the market and there may bo bea a mater material lai change for the better ln in prices at that time morning examiner |
