Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-04 | Page 3 | Prices of Citrus Fruits Take Drop

PRICES OF CITRUS FRUITS TAKE DROP CHICAGO Dec With 4 With lr lar crops ot Florida and oranges lemons crap fruit and grapes ready for Cor the market prices on these commodities dropped 50 to 76 cent a case here Irr hen rhal fruit auction I companies a which omo dealers said aid might af- af afI af affect I teet the thc fruit Industry ot o the th country contest I Is being waged aged by bythe bythe the Fruit Auction com com- comI pan corn I pan representative ot o a group croup or South Water street commission merchants and the th Independent fruit and produce auction company of ot ot o nu- nu numerous nu numerous small buyers shIppers and men andI I u-Iness u Monday as about lyen the Chicago Auction company sell sell- sellIng tell telling ing 67 7 car cars and lie Its rh rhal 01 1 61 The normal day Is about cars Some commIssion men declared the drop In prices came from fram Increased sal Band and declared that it would continue so long lone as t O auction were doing Other com com- commIssion commission mission men denied 1 hie and as- as asserted as that the tho slump nas as due du to tho unusually large larse crop crops and to the holiday after price drop Members of ot the consolidated com com- compan com pani pan denied that there was os any fruit war In existence declaring that the coni controlled rolled SO 90 pei cent ot the output and had bad the pick of ot the good to sell ell with tho result that and demand Ill so prices