Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser., 1844-12-21
The Marke1s.

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s. To persons engaged in tho curing. Of
provisions, the prospect for tho approlch-
ing season would seem to Be encouraging.
The Indications are all favorable to good
prices and ready sales for beef, pork, lard,
cheese, SC. Sc. 7 he demand for Amer
lean provisions in Europe is constantly and
regularly increasing; and the beneficial ef-
fects Of this demand have already been felt
in this country. On the reception of the
intelligence lately brought BY the Britain
MIA, stating the activity Of sales in the
American beef market in Liverpool, beef
cattle rose from fifty to seventy-fve cents
on the hundred in Baltimore-so say the
papers Of that city. The supply Of lard
and cheese sent forward is reported as be-
ing insuffic' 'ent to meet the demand, and
the consequence is that in both these articles
there has been an augmentation of prices.
In regard to the article Of pork, which,
with the exception Of the present season,
may be regarded as constituting one of the
heaviest items in the exports of this Ter
ritory, it is now reduced to a certainty thai
much less than the usual quantity will be
produced. The hogs are not in the coun-
try, and cannot therefore be cut up. From
the Ohio, the Wabash, the Illinois, and
Mississippi rivers, whence goes nearly all
the pork sent to the East BY way Of New
Orleans, all accounts concur in bearing us
out in this statement. The falling off at
Cincinnati will perhaps be less than at any
other point, but falling off there will be.
AT Alton, according to the papers Of that
place, not more than two-thirds the usual
quantity will be put up; and the same may
be said Of Peoria. In our own town the
diminution promises to be much greater;
and we shall be agreeably disappointed if
at the close of the season, it turns out that
as many as half the hogs cut up by our
packers last winter have been slaughtered
this. In view, therefore, OF the increased
and increasing foreign outlet, and the d.
u.imshed supply, it is reasonable to calcu.
late on rise in prices such as will par.
tally, if not fully, compensate dealers for
the losses sustained on their shipments o.
last year. This is to be desired, as is also
the absence Of similar misfortune to our
packers hereafter; for 10 these losses is
attributable, in some degree, the low and
inadequate prices paid the farmers for their
pork.
From review Of the St. Louis Market
contained in the Republican Of the 18th
we make the following synopsis:
| Flour, country brands, SO 50 a So IS
Wheat, 81 70 for prime lots; inferior Al
TO So; Corn, 81 SO; Oats, 20; Barley
80; Farsesd, 50 ST.; Beans, 81 IL 81
25; Potatoes, 35 40; Onions As 50
Hides--dry 8, green 8 l-2, green saltet
3 S-4a Lard-prime 5, in demand
inferior l-2a43-4. Whiskey-rectifet
! u . %: ran, o6 A.5--, --~~ crop 3 .,
5 "a, with heavy stock and prices inclin
ing downward. .Molasscs do. at 26. Cof
tsc-green Havana Z l-2, Rio Z 8, St
Domingo 6 a 6 l-2. MH-heavy stock
aud light demand. G.. A. ST. SO and L
B. at 81 75 per sack. Hogs, So to So 6(
per loo lbs; superior lots worth littl,
more. Furs and Peltries-in active de-
mand at these prices: coon and mink from
:; 10 to 40 cts. per skin; muskrat 6 to IL
otter 81 to SO; red and blue deer skins IL
to Is per lb; gray do s to IS.