The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-19

TO-DAY QUOTATIONS.
BgHr OArrLE-Butchefs stock so
BAnngH o0ws--Fat 21@S)i conts.
snrrro-Ss@i cent?
HTcoK-Per head, sg@efs.
NIXON oows--wlth calves, s25@N0
grhrNGrns-Per head, S1O@t30.
.HoGs-Corn'fed, 10 gross Timber fat D'SgsjG
safrr-Mutton. sK@ah cents stock, per head
MossEs,s Extra ene, per span, s9ooas9.oo fancy
harness. s15O@a20O; livery harness, TbGtl7b;
farm, eb6dei25; ponies, Slb@s30
MUIIs-Extra heavy si2b@s2oG medium $500
60 small ss0H5U
For six weeks or more the receipts Of cattle
ut Chicago have averaged about 49, 600 head per
week.
The Caldwell (Kan) Post says: TT looks now
as though our local ranchmen VIII nave 70
fence or go without grass In the future, as every
available spot is being occupied by new herds."
Because of lack of pastnrage great many
cattle-men are driving their cattle down 70
Kearney TO feed before shipping 10 Chicago.
one heavy stock-raiser from the Yellowstone re-
gion has brought large herd for grain feeding.
The Kansas City Price Current, in view OF the
better outlook for corn and the abundance Q, Of
rough feed throughout the west coupled with
the fact that there has been nothing OF any con-
sequence done this fall in the stocker and feeder
| trade argues that the demand for feeding stock
must of necessity improve latero on, and predicts
that feeders will have to pay unproftably high
prices next spring.
The Drovers Journal, of yesterday, says:
| u
commotion in the east, and the shipping CATTLE
market at this point has been materially affected
this week. AT least buyers of shipping cattle
have been very free to make cats-paw OF that
| argument. There are certain to be some very
radical changes in the whole meat supplying
system during the next decade, though live
stock shippers do not anticipate being forced 10
look for another job just yet.
| The last Chicago Times Range steers, on the
hand of good killing quality, whether direct
| from Texas or the western plains, are meeting
with an active inquiry, and may be quoted as
| fully 15@35c per cwt higher than on last Friday
Some Texas steers, average 972 pounds, were
sold yesterday at 81 So which, 1t was thought,
| would at no time last week have brought over
Si10. Canned beef operators and city butchers
competed right sharply Tor the cheaper grades,
and the feeling in the market for this class Of
stock also was buoyant and firm, at fully &c ad-
vance since the beginning of the week. sales
| of common to the best native steers were re-
ported at an extreme range of So S0g5.sO with
the bulk of the fair to good do. at 81 3o@5 80:
! Texas and northern range steers sold chiefly at
Si64 so. with cows and mixed lots OF the same
description quoted at 80 .25@S.9O. carload OF
prime through Texas steers, average 1.O2S
pounds, sold at SAFE, and some Montanas, aver
age 1850 to 1870 pounds, at 81 1905 To-,
| The arrivals OF hogs and sheep for the week.
up to last night were about the same as for the
first half of last week, and the receipts of cattle
| for the same time show falling Off OF over 5,000
head. The hog arket was in a decidedly I'M
settled condition yesterday, and prices were
weak and lower all along the line. AS is usu-
ally Just the case before the opening of the regu-
| lar packing season, packers are using every
means possible to get prices down; Regular
shippers of live cattle have done but little SO far
| this week, the bulk of the supply having fallen
into the hands of shippers of dressed beef and
Gamers. Range cattle and the cheaper grades
| of natives were in active demand at strong prices
yesterday, with the better qualities OF NATIVES
| quotably dull at barely steady rates.. Sheep
were in improved demand, and the market was
| O shade firmer.