The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-01
Hor PaeklnE in wheellpr ,hl. sea-.

are glad 10 notice a material increase in
the business thisyear compared with
last, and we trust thatthis vote Of increase
will continue in future. The country i'm.
mediately about us cannot be called q hog
producing section. Our farmers run to
sheep in an agricultural way Just as our
manufacturers run to iron in manuiac-
turing way, The one is Gs much Of q
speciality with this region as the other.
Still there are number Of farmers who
devote more or leaa attention 10 hogs and
cattle, and who find in Seasons like tho
present that 1t lisa good thing to have two
or three strings 10 their bow. Those who
have sold their hogs within the last lew
days have certainly realized good prices
The figures paid have been constantly on
the advance since the opening Of the sea-
son, as is shown by the fact that the hogs
that we're bought in November at 81 25
would now bring IS 80. $40
The number Of hogs packed during The
season thus far Is $500, 40 against 4,6OO
last year, and 1t Is expected that abou:
700 more will be packed during the re-
mainder Of the season. This increase Is
mainly owing to the bringing Of hogs
from points West, and does not represent
any increase in the product Of lbs i'm
mediate neighborhood. The mo. promi.
nent parties who have psctel this season
are List, Davenport & PARKS, William @.
Handlan, J. G. Muth, Christ. Hoffman, P.
2oeckler, and sChenck 6 zoeckler, and
among these the first named parties have
taken the lead as the largest packers.
Their number will probably reach 1890,
Among the principal parties, drOvers
and others, who have brought hogs to
this market this season, are the following {:
Elisha Packer, Huntsville, o. Andrews
& Lopgdon, olsysyille, Pa; George Val
entine, West Alexander, Pa; George W,
Chany, Coon Island, Pa; Thomas Bell,
ClsySville, Pa; E. Brownlee, West Alex
snder; G. w. Webster, JeflOrann county,
o.; A. Ankrom, Tyler county, W. Va;
VIM. Kemple, Marshall county; John Ir-
win, Brooke county; ]. F. Councilman,
Brooke county; George sawtell, Ohio
county; Samuel Powers, Marshall county;
Psden & Goodhue, Tyler county; Ault &
Son, Glencoe, O.; and John RObrecht,
Keim House, Wheeling.
The number Of hogs brought by these
parties to this market and sold to the
packers does not by any means represent
the total number slaughtered here during
the season for home consumption. In
addition TO the packers there are several
prominent butchers who kill from ten TO
twenty hogs each per week for their re-
tail trade. We refer to such parties In
this business as George Zoeckler, Conrad
Kraft, Charles Hoffman, Louis Ortiz, John
Boeshsr, John Medick, George He'll,
Peter Noll, Fred. Weimar and L. Ack.
erman, and other parties who like
them are regularly in the trade the year
round. These men supply not only
large retail demand In this market,
but they ship their sausage, which, like
Wheeling nails and Wheeling cigars
has a very enviable reputation, to distant
points on the line Of the Baltimore &
Ohio and other roads.
Nor does the amount thus weekly
slaughtered and sold by these and other
butchers represent more than portion
Of the pork that in one shape and anoth.
er Is both consumed anu jobbed in this
market. For instance, VIC may mention
that houses like List, Davenport,
& Parks, Michael Rielloy, and others,
purchase large amounts ofgreen meats in
the Western markets and cure 1t here for
their wholesale grocery trade. Tho for.
mer house sold this last year $4,000 hams
and an equal quantity Of shoulders and
about 5000 sides. In other words, with
the meat they killed and the meat they
cured in addition, they iobbed altogether
about 10000 hogs. a.,
Hogs commenced selling this season at
points west as low at Ste. owing to the
fact that panicky ideas prevailed among
the packers both as regards an expected
stringency through the season in the way
Of money, and also an expected over
supply fhogs. Their idea was that the
usual speculative demand would not make
itself felt this year, at least not early in
the season. All their expectations, how.
ever, have failed, as IS so often the case
with speculative ideas upon all subjects.
The advance In the price has been con-
slant and persistent since the market
opened in the fall, until the quotations
at Cincinnati yesterday reached IS so.
AS to the future Of the market there ia
sWide diversity Of views among dealers,
While Eastern dealers arc unwilling to
invest heavily at prevailing prices, yet
few have dared to cell short for future do.
livery. The statistics which will be pub.
liShed in a few days, showing thepacking
in the great packing States, are loohSd 10
with unusual intarest.,and will help IL
solve the question OF tho crop which is a
mooted question at-prescnt.
The National Crop Reporter, regarded
as good authority, reports from the hog
growing States a falling of from last
year Of 10 per cent in the number Of lat
ted hogs and a decrease In weight OF AZ
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