The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-15
Allegheny Live stock Market.
MnNnLY Nav IL 1870

MONDAY, May IL, 1917.
CATTLE-The arrivals Of cattle by
the different railroads centering at the
Union Yards were thirty-eight cars,
twenty-nine of which came from Chi
cago and the balance from Ohio. The
offerings were more common than last
weeks cattle. The market opened up
a little slow, but purchasers becoming
aware that prime stock was not 10
great supply, grew more active and
prime stock, if not too heavy, sold we'll.
The more common grades sold slower,
and dragged little toward the close,
and we believe a few tail ends were LETT
over. The prices obtained were very
good, being shade higher than last
week, but still not good enough to do
the drovers any good, as they were all
complaining of hari market. This car
be accounted for by the cattle costing
more at Chicago than last week, while
the advance here was not sufficient 10
balance that at Chicago. Butchers this
season are very hard to sell to, and II
requires considerable "chin music ID
order to effect sales; pork shoulders,
sides and hams are so very cheap that
It is hard for butchers to take the money
out of the beeves They say while 1t Is
10 trouble to sell the best cuts of beef
the boiling meat they cannot sell al
anything like a fair price, on account
of the cheapue:s ofsalt meats. We give
it as our opinion that cattle will cotse
down or salt meats 90 up until the
values get nearer together, as trade can
not long exist as al present. when
hogs were selling two years ago at
SlOUO9lI % per 100 pound, butchers
found no difficulty in selling boiling
meats. In order to show the depression
in the trade we give the following, and
vouch for its correctness: A butcher
OF Allegheny, finding his stock nf n.i' :
inG meat increasing rapidly, PchIed 1t
and sent tour barrels TO Baltimore Tor
sale (couldn sell here at alD, and 1t
sold there for abour &c per pound;
alter expenses Were paid he had nothing
for his meat, and h : come to the con-
clusion that it Is not profitable to ship
to Baltimore at the present time.
SrOCKERS-The receipts OF stock
amounted to loads as will he seen by
arrivals below. The cattle were not Of
ferrd in the market, having been bought
by the shipper, Mr.. A. Brawly, At
CHICAGO for TO take 10 Washington
couLty. A fair number OF buyers were
here bat a. no cattle We're offering they
went home empty handed. Buyers are
comingto the conclus on that TO cattle
will BE- brought here un'e-s at prices
that will Justify shippers in purchasing.
We heard of several parties willing TO
20 as high as - - Tor straight stock
ers. but as sellers did not agree to fur
uish them, we infer they cannot be
brought here to sell at their price.
PRICES Following are about the
price- at which The different grades Of
cattle sold: Extra. 1900 lbs bullocks,
tat and smooth. - p per hundred lh-;
prime, I2DO lbs steers, s. lJ"G 80
groi 100 los cattle, 81 jOHG 60 fair,
1000 lb- steers, - DOG6 80, common
cattle, - 1jnG %; bulls, stag, COWS
and nejlers, 81 Oom5 ~.
SHEEP-Tme Number Of sheep and
.amt- on sale was larger than Tor some
time past, amounting to between two
hundred ani fly and three hundred
heal The offerings consisted OF wool
and clipped sheep and lambs The
-hrep were OF fair quality, and the
lambs a. a general thing not SO good.
Dealers say that the lambs this season
are not doing so well a. last, and that
il j. pretty hard to ct a bunch OF good
lambs or good sheep. The market
Was fair, alH some sales We're made a.
high ~ $40 - per 100 tor prime -
IT, wool sheep. Clipped ranged rom
- jJlt1 - per lOp, according to quail
itv, a., lambs Irrm - 0O14 % per
head.