New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-31

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RsxARks ABoTr BEEy CATTLE.
The total number this week 1873 head compares WITH
56e7 head last week and with 525S head average week
year. and with 4iS3 for the corresponding week one year
ago.
market 1904 head. compares with 3s5O head last and
with s659 head. the per week last year. and with
500 head Of market one year ago.
THE Opening, OR PRINCIPAL DAY, OF THE MARKET.
Monday, Jan. 29.-The cattle market opened at
Forty ouhst hi. morning With 1907 head Of buocks in
the sale pens including the stale stock abou 100 hesd left
the morning price the cboics cattle was little higher than
last Monday but did not hold so through the day
regular s tendency sn dSwn~sd and .os o. the dro1er.
hsy :Gsa 3. o1Se
fair medium qualify light Ilno, steers st and
stock voted medium and Inferior and will sell at 49
IS cents Probably some Of the hrst sales Of best stock wi
ing Price Tor the very best. except one or two pair Of
premium sold at 20d23c. per pound The state Of
erior quality viii stand ill Tuesday, and perhaps
portion Of them I'LL next week The market Is GER
tsinly overlooked this week With common cattle The
hsps though II will come rain, that Is In character
th, Winter II not quite as favorable for droyen sharp
them expected 1t Albany where there go carloads
cattle There not however as many usual the
head.
THE CLOSE OF THE MARKET.
efdsS to make the close 81 &c .st oos
the fear Of thsw dsincnes Wholesale butchers to invest
largely except at declining prices GOOD stock SOD early yes
week solely because there scarcity Of that class.
Medium and irior particularly dull during the latter
Of Mna and l s the 81
stock ed that hundred head more, len The
1s will probably s Ss true sG g1. os Ss
stock at reduced prices The market closes badly
for those who have Soqs5 css hsa Is,es
Amer the first Of May the great cattle market Of this city
wSss 0 Sp 10 Th aHS and ' then to
nearly 20 years ago. quite out oftown up to Forty ourh
will make another grand march up 70 about
cars Four,hsve. aud driven on. upon Thdeye. II the
houses located In the vicinity, this
rens The location Of the markepsce the best by
far in every respect that could be found upon Manhattan
liberal scale that has attended the fitting up the stock
yards Cbcsgo where according to the description given In
the world The following brief biltory of the great
terprse which has established market place at Chicago.
suited TO present and future wants of the business,
Some two year. since company formed with capital
Of most which wa, PAID BY nine diasIen. I.tGsS
resulted from the existence Of SIX different yards. Of
them two three miles apart As no suitable dry land could
be the % -, sc.ss o. low ,oT
menced In June last The first thing to drain the lsnd
rSos undertake i With sms sG dn the total
length of drains and sewers being nearly thirty miles
AlIgs force, sometimes 1000 men, were pot at work
plsnkng the 800 The cattle pens psnLed with
pine plsnks resting upon ss to raise them from
the around and let through the and refuse from the
sS hid So So i
city North and souh through the center broad avenue
length; is paved with Nicholson pavement The principal
running east and west h. been named Broadway this
each other at right angles the yard up blocks like the
great City Of Chicago Itself All are designated BY letters and
There are 500 yards and pen, each numbered with nearly
1900 gates Conveniently located In different parts of the
with scales for weighing tanks Tor water In every yard re.
curing six miles Of pipe.
"hospital" for those sick or disabled
bank ind soas Ri and very ss
nections with .. the railroad effected The whole cap
@ S'a Il % md Ss .ins
weighing head for hogs and zoe per head for cattle
being reduction Of i on hogs and Sc on cattle from the
rates 'A''' sRoEE X IS SALES SALE or BuLLocKs
Miller Morehouse sold 50 cattle at Forty fourths for
os. Co., Ohio steers heifeu and BULL. uneven, Ia
10 cwt, l30ttc and at Bergen g. for J. Gesy illinois
Da i h.a Is 81 &. sSn Michigan Cattle. steer. and
o1en, fair, 40 n home weight sold at elc4 each.
Woodruff Bro 10 State oxen and cows their own 40
nsalsy Co, IS Kentucky fair CATTLE for themselves. al h
Ted Wheeler sold an eItr. pair red oxen native stock
fed BY Js Travis Bros Of Yorktown, Weehessr County
3 Il s sns ~. 70 G' Valentine
ihsJ ass great credit S {Suns ssd TSsy
heavy hides 90 distance In essenng the Of the
Teed Wheeler also sold for George Wood Picisvsv
County, Ohio, good steers ewt, ct l56l6c. few lie ana
lH for D. L. Barnes Ohio steers, 50 very good at l6dl2
the Others At zltc L. Valentine took fths best a, lse
NJ Dalton. for Dr. Dsrrah lis Illinois steers ordinary 81
cwt, at lsc. averages Of the best o1cn la each
Westheiner Mcmahon for O. s. Foos q Ohio .t.ey, II
ewt at lie very good lot sversyng ei2o each; and q
Mo cattle for Metcsf cwt, ste. and stays mixed Al
the road two weeks hence badly drihed. " y"
" Godsten sold s. good KY steers len over from .,.
! ewt
wictwsre Quincy, for Trip, p State cattle co.r,..
cwt. oxen and cows one very tine ct el5 or sc The
othsu at Sc and foI Root 10 Ohio steers Just far ewt
r. Gi on bis account - fine Ohio steer, II oftb.r
s7Sb Albany weight; ny cwt here sod Al a1o sacS ~
lie: Eight 70 Phil Gilman at lsc and 81 Ill steers
l. Bodlonr sold % Tor g Bndlon, Mich g. ,,,,
b 70 Lsnases Co. hics M 7s.t cattle sOd Al lie sverass