The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-03
LIVE STOCK

hECElPIs OF calle NJ me stOck-yaruS are I'M
proving both in numbers and In condition.
While the arrivals are not fully up to the de-
mand, there is u better feeling displayed among
buyers with settled conviction that prices vii,
be fully maintained during the summer The
shipments continue, but dealers often are com
PEELED to wait two or three days TO secure enough
10 make II profitable to send north. 1t has been
predicted by those who are exporting to 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 in
all northern markets. Mutton sheep are coming
In quite freely and those In the pens show an
Improvement over those that were offered
fey weeks ago Spring lambs are not
plentiful, and command high prices.
Veal calves are scarce and are barely sufficient
TO supply the local takings of the city. Hogs are
fully up to all the requirements of butchers, and
the, demand continues light Horses. ponies
and mules are eagerly taken Mt good figures.
Our quotations indicate the ruling prices for all
kinds of stock;
TODAY s QUOTATIONS..
BEEF CATTLE-Com-fed $685. cents.
BARREN Cows--Fat, 3a3h cents.
SHIrPIHG-3Adl cents.
STCcK-Pcr head, Sl5@s20
Mich CowsWith calves, s25@siO
SPIlNGERs-Per head, sl0@S3O.
Ho0s-Corn-fed, 5@5h CENTS timber fat SOD;
| stock. 2hOD3.
saEEr-Mutton sN@sh cents; stock, per head
el.60@S2 90.
HoRsEs--Extra fine, per span, s3OO@e5Oo fancy
harness, sl60@S2OO livery harness. s75@Sl75;
farm, s50pSl25; ponies, Sl5@s30.
MuLEs--.Extra heavy Sl25@S200; medium $500
90: small A30msb
The Chicago Times says: The past week was
an eycntful one In the livestock market at this
point and one long to be remembered by those
either intimately or remotely connected with the
trade. The movement in hogs and sheep was
| active At prices showing no material change,
there being, In fact, no important new features
developed In these branches of business at the
vi .lQ hut tlN. V1F.tf
excitement prevailed. The receipts were about
], 100 head less than for the week previous, and
| some 1900 head smaller than for the same time
last year, and SO urgent was the demand from
eastern buyers and dressed. beef shippers that
prices for all beef qualities, including both ma
| tive and Texas steers, rapidly advanced TO the
highest point by about lc per pound, that was
| ever known here with currency on par with
gold Toward the close Of the week. when the
excitement ran highest buyers fairly climbed
over each other In their efforts to get. In first
| offers on consignments. and much OF the stock
that arrived was sold before being fed and
watered. For some, time past buyers
shut out OF the deal by the high prices current,
and oil, or nearly all, of the recent ship
ments of American live stock abroad have been
made by parties who'had contracts made ahead
FOR vessel room, which ship owners would moi
cancel, thereby cntnilng greater losses upon ex.
porters than would b. incurred by fulfilling
them. From the present rate of demand for beef
however for home consumption, II is thought
that we shall have need for all the fat cattle this
country will produce, II there should not be an.
other bullock exported during the remainder Of
| the present year.
Distillery cattle arc now being marketed
freely. and $3.50 per cwtwas paid for some of the
best on the market last week, They averaged
| L. % pounds
Texas through steers sold In this market
last week ats676 to ESQ per cwt for averages OF
blb to 9l5 pounds, and for IL head OF fat lIttl,
Arkansas cattle, averaging only $50 pound.
| sos WI realized.
Western shippers have coined money for the
past few days-"just like finding H." as one OF
them remarked Friday. But where, oh where
will they land by and byG
The through heards OF cattle are commcncInf
TO come In from southern Texas, many OF then
10 MI Indian contracts north and west"