The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-12
NEW YORK CATT1.R Mawxxr
OPENING DAY OF THE rARxrr.

Monday, July THE market opened this
morning with about {, 300 fresh cattle on sale,
and that number was increased during the fore.
noon to little over 600 beside the stale stock
estimated from one to two hundred The
number, although much less than last week, is
entirely too great for the demand, particularly
In such state OF the weather as We have had
yesterday and to-day-the heat being so over.
poWering that many men have been obliged to
leave the sale pens and seek shelter during the
middle Of the day. This has made the trade
appear little worse than the reality-that is,
the sales. have not been quick, and unless there
IS remarkable improvement in the cooler
hours OF the evening, there will be large lot
OF oallocks left over for the closing day. The
great bulk Of the stock on sale is of good fair
quality for retail butchers and sells at prices
equivalent to 7@8 cents pound for the meat
seller sinking offal. A few extra good average
droves may net Sc. upon liberal estimates Of
weight by the seller. 1t is true that bullocks
have been sold to-day at prices equivalent to
83c. pound net, but the number is smaller
than it was last week. The greatest decline is
upon the lowest grades of stock, some of which
will have to 60 as low as g., and perhaps low
er, as the Wholesale butchers are very indie.
pendent about buying. Anticipating q hard
market. good many cattle have been held out
at Albany, over in Jersey, and along the Erie
road. The contractor for the army has no
orders this week, and but for the fact that there
are some buyers in market for grazing, it
would be impossible to sell all the stock for
beef. Graziers are not willing to pay over 7c.
fTtP net ID for good smooth fat steers. and at
that the Wholesale butchers will strike to win
or LOSE 1t is at an even chance which The
first day closes gloomily, with more cattle ex-
pected tomorrow. r
| CLOSE OF THE MARKET.
Tuesday, July 8.-The receipts now foot up
over 4, 900 head, and with few exceptions the
Cattle rate good fair gu ,lity ard many ofthem
rather extra good for this time of the year
One drove of over hundred went direct te
New Haven and another about az large to q
grazier, and perhaps another hundred in small
lots to graziers and from the appearance o.
business through the day, there will be 500
more at shutdown to turn out or sell at ruin
ously low prices to the wholesale butchers.
Fortunately for drovers, this class of buyers
are better disposed to operate than they wer.
yesterday: This is owing to great change il
the weather, which is to-day quite comfortable
Still the market closes at lower rates thar
it opened. We have seen good bullocks sole
to-day-good enough for any retail butcher il
the city-at no fraction of q cent over &c. @ir
net.
Yesterday is supposed to have been the wors
day 70 spoil meat in year. We were told thi
morning by 9 butcher, that he killed bullock,
Monday morning and the beef was spoiled
before night 80 that it could not be sold
He did not say it was out of distillery-fet
bullocks, but we have no doubt that was tn
fact, because We have known such thing
before. With most Of the buthers, such cattl
are in very bad repute. Some will not bu,
them ct any price. A few on sale to-day vii
not bring over cents pound net. The clos
of this market indicates hard one for drover
next week, and until the surplus stock is up
There were several hundred stale cattle in tn
market this week.