The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-25
The Hog Market.

ST. LouIs.-The Republican Of the 22d says:
Hogs were heavy and lower to day with unfa-
sarable weather, with full pens and limited
dairand Sales include ! leo yesterday sitter
moon, good and heavy average. There .
good many light hogs coming io, which are not
saesble at ose r IS 80 gross. The range Of prices
paid by the packers to day for prime to good aud
choice hogs nearly as follows; For prime to
good from s. T5s5 GO, choice to extra grades
frpm So los6 %, and the day closed With hrm
asd steady market.
cHicAGo.-The Tri5gae OF Sunday morning
Gays:
Hog. were in good reques. in the morning. and
up 10 ten clock prices were we'll sustained, but
later in the day, under less active demand, re-
cedci loal5c. About 400 head changed hands
at S. s5as so. Tho market closes heavy at s. IS
az IS, with 2,ooo head in the pens unsold
cfsorSSAri.-The Gusette Of the 2lst says:
The market was frm and active early in the
day, and the full prices OF yesterday we're paid,
but the large receipts and unfavorsbe reports
from Chicago had depressing effect, aud this af-
terneon prices fully 2ac lower with heavy
market at 6 c0a6 81 gross, and 0ea7 50 net,
the latter rate being extreme and difficult to OBJ
tain, even for the best and heaviest hogs Medium
averages were freely offered at 25a1 IS at the
close. the packers generally holding of in antic-
patton Of higher prices.
Ar LorisviLLg.- The Courier ef Friday says
The hog market and provisions we're quiet to-
day, and hogs nearly non inal, buyers
were refusing to pay the rates that had prevailed
at the first Of the week, and we now quote hogs
dull at 6tassc the extreme rates, the highest fig
tires for extra and heavy averages few good
lots of hogs sold at SIC, gross, at the pens. The
receipts continue large, and the slaughter full At
all the houses, including Fred Lieb, who now kills
900 hogs each day, cutting in the morning and
siaughtering in the evening.
IxprASApoLIs.-Tbc Journal says:
We quote snlcs of 270 head to packers ut rates
ran iue from 5la6c. few sales we're also made
to butchers at &c for prime hogs. Prices are rul
ing ic lower than last quotations, owing 10 de-
cline in Cincinnati and other points. 1t seems to
be settled. however, that hogs have reached the
bottom, and that present prices will be the ruling
rate during the remainder of the season. The
houses are now busiiy engaged in packing, and
| large receipts Of hogs are made daily.
| CoLpMBIA. Ala, Dee is.
| within the last cold epell pork has been very
plenty in the market. ranging downward from ss
7ic The downward tendency Of oil the provis-
| ion markets makes buyers easy and slow OF trade
1 Persons who engaged at l2ic and Zoe missed til.
figures largeiy.-Herafd.
1 PoHK GoiSe Sorra.-The Chattanooga Tenn.
| Usioa speaks of the numerous droves of swine
which every day passed through tha, city last
week. They were mostly gathered up in tn,
counties north Of Chattanooga, and were being
driven down into Georgia. The ruling price
we're s 90 to 90 per 100 sst, without much incli-
n4ton the part Of purchaser 70 invest st thos'
figures. In = majority Of instances holders re
fused to take less than 10 90 per lee.
Hogs--Sevefal loads Of dressed hogs have com,
inand been sold 1t prices ranging from 81 to DC
From oar exchanges We iearn that hogs are look
ing up and have advanced from l 10 10 In 81
Louis and other msrkets.-Riekmosd Hoy Goa
serpufor.