The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-08
LIVE STOCK.

RECEIPTS of cattle at the stock yards are I'm
proving both in numbers and In condition.
While the arrivals are not fully up TO the de-
mand, there Is Il better feeling displayed among
buyers with a settled conviction that prices will
be fully maintained during the summer. The
shipments continue, but dealers often are com
PEELED TO wait two or three days to secure enough
"a make Il profitable to send north. IL has been
predicted by those who are exporting 10 Eu-
rope that prices would recede about this time,
but as yet there is no evidence of such result,
aud good cattle bring about the usual figures III
all northern markets. Mutton sheep are coming
In quite freely and those in the pens show an
Improvement over those that were offered
few weeks ago, Spring lambs are not
plentiful and command high prices,
Well calves are scarce and are barely sufficient
to supply the local takings of the city Hogs are
fully up 10 all the requirements OF butchers, and
the, demand continues light, Horses, ponies
and mules are eagerly taken at good figures.
Our quotations indicate the ruling prices for all
kinds of stock;
TO-DAY QUOTATIONS.
BEEF CATTLE-Cornfed, S@lSa cents.
BARREN COws-Fat so 81 cents,
SHIPPlSG-3A6Dl cents.
STCCK-Per head, Sl5@S2O.
Mich Cows-With calves, S258Si0
SPRINGERs-Per head, Sl04sS0.
HoGs-Com-fed, 5S5h cents; timber fat 3@i;
stock, 2hG3.
sHEEr-Mutton, S&@Sh cents; stock, per head
sl60@s2 90.
HoRsEs-Extra fine, per span, eSoO@s5OO; fancy
harness, Sl6OGS2CG livery harness, S5@SIIo;
farm, S50aSl25 ponies, Sl6@S30
MULEs-Extra heavy sl25@s2O0 medium $500
90 small S30Ms5.
Texas cattle, which last year brought 81 q
head are this season worth $50
The prices for Jersey cattle at the public sales
are equalling those for shorthorns. = AT the lat
sales in New York over $50 head were sold; four
teen animals brought 900 and upward each
the highest price for COW being $500.
A company has been organized i'll New GOrl
city which proposes to transport beef Csttl'
from Chicago to New York in less than half th'
time Ii now takes 1t Is claimed that If this can b
| done there will be great saving in the amour
of beet and an improvement in its quality.
| The Nayajoes have 1900 head of sheep ON tht
| San Juan river, oil the reservation. The catt
men In that section are apprehensive OF trouble
| Governor Sheldon has laid the matter before tn
secretary OF the interior, and, meantime, ha
instructed the militia to preserve the peace.
| "The shipments of live cattle from this port,
says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, are at
loss, as the dealers admit But one shipper o
cattle has contracts which will net expire unit
well on in July and would lose more were he I
throw them up, and another is now shippn
only Canadian cattle which are brought here j
bond. These cattle, II herd of l0,uOO head in nj
We're bought last winter at very REASONABLE
figure. The other cattle shippers are Canadians
The shipments of dressed beef are also mt a los!
but the firms who are shipping can well stan
the loss and are continuing in the hope that tn
supplies abroad will finally become SO short the
the business will pay and that this Is possible
Is shown by the fact that dressed beef is quote
this week in Liverpool at ljc,, the highest quo
tati0n ever known"