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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1902
Page
7
In Umatilla County wheat harvest nears as farmers expect strong yields and wait for favorable prices. Dealers have begun negotiating with farmers with a few fields contracted around 50 to 51 cents per bushel while traders predict openings around 55 cents or higher. The market outlook rests on buyers offering steady prices as farmers hedge against potential profit.
Prices paid at the local market list strawberries ten cents a box and multiple items per pound per crate or dozen. Tomatoes peaches apricots ten cents per pound with cherries at a crate price of $1.75. Live stock and poultry include hens per dozen from $2.60 to $3.50, turkeys ten dollars per dozen, ducks $2.76 per dozen, geese $9 per dozen, eggs sixteen cents, butter 26 to 60 cents per roll, beef cattle cows per hundred $3.10 and steers $3.80 to $3.90, hogs six dollars and twenty five cents live. Retail grocery prices feature coffee various grades, rice twelve and a half to six one, sugar case rates, flour eight dollars twenty five cents per barrel.
One hundred seventy nine battles were fought on or near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during the Civil War era. The rail line served as a federal backbone from Monocacy to the Ohio river, with forts and blockhouses protecting routes to Washington, Winchester, Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, and more. A battlefield map is available by sending a stamped request to D. B. Martin in Baltimore.
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