Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-04
BALTIMORE, June Is, 1883.
AT CALVERTON YARDS.

bAItlmOre LlVe SUOCk mark0ts
BALTIMORE, June %. 1888.
AT CALVERTON YARDS.
BEEF CATTLE-Tbere was q very slow
market on the Hill to-day, trade hanging
on longer than usual. Prices for the bet.
ter grades saic lower, and medium and
common stock fully fc lower than last
Thursday. There was full number Of
the medium and common cattle on sale.
Tops were fully as good as they were last
week. We quote at 81 00a5 122, with
most sales at $3 75a4 IS per 100 lbs. Few
selling up o$5.
Price of Beef Cattle this week ranged
as follows: Best Beeves at SIS O0a5 122,
those generally rated first quality 81 75a
90; medium or good fsir quality 81 123a
37t, and ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
Cows So O0a3 123 per 100 lbs.
OF the cattle received 1919 came from
Maryland, 800 from Virginia, SO from
Illinois, and 10 from Ohio. Total receipts
for the past week 721, against 2, 231 last
week and 1920 same time last year.
OF the offerings ZIG were taken by the
Baltimore butchers, 80 sold to country
dealers, and 81 sold to Eastern buyers.
Total sales for the week 500 against 838
last week and 7S1 same time last year.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Trade in sheep
and lambs was very dull this week. Sheep
sold at about the same figures as last week,
quality considered, but lambs show de-
cline of fully &c per ID. The receipts num-
Der several hundred in excess Of the offer
ings last week. We quote butchers
sheep at 3a44c per lb gross Lambs sold
at 4a6c per ID gross, few selling at the
latter figure, most sales at under SIC.
Receipts this week of sheep and lambs,
Z, ia head.
CHICAGO, July 3. - Cattle-Receipts
8, 500 head; shipments 5000 head; native
cattle 10a20 cents higher; choice to extra
beeves S. S0a6 10; common to good 81 00a
5 rs; stockers and feeders 81 50a3 IS;
cows, bulls and mixed 81 25s3 90.
Hogs-Receipts 10000 head; shipments
4, 600 head; sctive; mixed IS 50a5 70;
heavy S. 6Oa5 80; light 81 50a4 20; skips
81 50a5 40.
Sheep-Receipts 8 500 head; market
steady; natives So 50a5 25; western So GOA
3 IS; Texans So 25a3 70; lambs firm 81 rs
as 90 per 100 head.
New York.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Beeves-Re.
ceipts 100 head; market steady for dressed
best at 7a9c for native sides, and 6a64c for
Texas do.
Sneep-Receipts 1900 head and 1000
head were carried over from Saturday; fair
to good offerings; very poor to good sheep
3s5}c per pound; poor to good lambs 5a7tc.
Hogs-Receipts 3, 200 head, nearly all
for city slaughterers direct; market nearly
nominal.
East Liberty.
EAST LIBERTY, July 3.-Cattle--
Receipts 2S5 head; shipments 50 head;
market slow and 5a10c off from yesterdays
prices.
Hogs-Rscsipts 900 head; shipments
400 head; market fair at yesterdays
prices. .
Sheep-Receipts 3,4OO head; shipments
5000 head; market firm at yesterdays
prices.
Cincinnati Horse and Mule Market.
CINCINNATI, June 3O.-A fair local bnsi-
ness was done during the week, sufficient
to exhaust the limited receipts, and
streeters were wanted in excess Of the sup
ply. There was. however, no snap buyers
from abroad. Prices remained as follows
Driving and saddle horses, $125a2OO; draft
horses, $15Oa2O0; street car horses $1OOa
200; Southern chunks, $7Oa1OO. Mules,
aged four to eight years, fifteen and half
to sixteen hands, $135al50; fifteen to If
teen and half hands, $ll5al35; fourteen
and a half to fifteen hands, $90a115.