The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-07-23
LIVE STOCK GOSSIP.
Local and otherwise PROBABILITIES.
Facts and Opinions.

Facts and Opinions.
R. NJ. Starlight shipped 10 cars from
Rock Greek yesterday.
Organ & Draper have ordered 20 cars
at Pine Bluffs on the 23th inst.
1. A. Alter has made the largest
shipment of Wyoming growers thus far,
having had 80 cars booked in n order.
The Chicago cattle market yesterday
was reported with a full supply, and
the market a shade lower. Sales lie
between Acc and &c, with an exceptional
sale occasionally at a higher figure.
Mr.. Morris, from Nevada, has sold TO
James Gadsden, of Browns Park, 500
head of horses. Mr.. Gadsden bought
them on the Sweetwater, near South
Pass, and is now driving them TO his
ranch in Browns Park, via Rock
Springs. Mr.. Gadsden intends sending
200 head of them to Nebraska in a few
weeks, and the balance he will put or
his range. Messrs. Morris and Gads-
den were in Green River on Sunday.
Mr.. Morris took the train on the same
evening for Rawlins, where he has $50
head Of horses in charge of Mr.. Rankin.
-ISweetwster Gazette.
The Drover's Journal of the 10Th
inst. makes the following mention of
Wyoming cattle and cattle growers:
The balance of the Sturgis, Goodell 81
Co. Wyoming half breeds, 80 averaging
1911 lbs, sold to Hammond at 81. so.
H. A. Blair will have six cars of North
ern range cattle in tomorrow, and
Pratt 81 Ferris will market a train next
week. r. Matthews, Pine Bluffs, Wyo-
ming, sold 100 Texans, averaging 943
lbs, at 81. 90, and 20 averaging 1853 lbs,
at "a. l5. Col. j. H. Pratt and II. A.
Blair are looking through the cattle
market. Mr.. Blair has just in from
his Powder river ranch, and the colonel
came in from the ~''trail'' last week. He
made a trip into the Yellowstone coun-
try, and says the Northern Pacific is
passing along rapidly and i'll a substan-
tial manner. He came in that way,
and had a Pullman sleeper all the way
from Miles city. The grass crop
throughout the northwest is said to be
long enough to make good hay most
anywhere.
The disappointment which sheep rails
ers feel at the comparatively low prices
which both mutton and wool are bring
ing is very great, because there seemed
to be every reason for expecting that
sheep would sympathize in some degree
at least with the general good feeling
which has characterized the sale of 9TH
er kinds of stock. With the exception
OF a slight squirt in the spring, however,
there has been nothing in the sheep
and strength in the market for either
cattle or hogs. This state of affairs
naturally tends to discourage sheep
growers, but Chances at the probable
causes will show that they have largely
stood in their own light. OF the entire
receipts this year there have been very
few fiocks of really marketable sheep,
and it would be au easy matter to reck-
Oh on one's fingers the number of lots
marketed, which would in England be
considered fit for the butchers block.
The reason why mutton has been sell
ing so much lower than other kinds of
meat is because the u of this
city at least have found italmost an i'm
possibility to secure more than an occa-
sional cut of mutton worthy of the
name. Sheep raisers must improve
their ways considerably before they
need expect much improvement in the
consumption and demand for mutton
Drover's Journal.