Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-22
NEAT ON THE HOOP.
Full Returns of Weeks Transactions
at Liberty Yards.
THE CATTLE REVIVAL ON MONDAY
Lacked Staying Qualities, and Price Back
to Old Figure.
SHEEP VERY SLOW, HOGS STEADY
HE CATTLE REVIVAL ON MONDAY
SHEEP VERY SLOW, HOGS STEADY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, /
THURSDAY. March y, 1889.

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THURSDAY. March q, 1889. /
Through receipts of cattle last week were
the largest for six months past AS will be
seen bv the accompanying report through
receipts this week were little above one
half of last week. 1t appears that there is
also a decline in local receipts of 240 head, as
compared with last week. The light run and
special order from Baltimore for export cattle
served to stimulate markets on Monday, and
prices advanced 10 per cent on export grades
The advance did not hold after the special
order was filed Markets drifted back to last
weeks figures and remain there up to date.
Outside of the sales referred to there has been
no imp ovement in prices. For good butcher
and shipping cattle, weighing ], 400 pounds and
upward the highest price paid was 81 20. This
price was paid for a few punches of export cat
tie on special order. As good cattle were sold
on Tuesday shade below 81 co. The revival
reported on Monday was lacking in staying
qualities. As the season advances veal calves
come in more freely and prices are tending
toward lower level
In last weeks report the range of prices was
5d615c. There has been drop of lc from these
figures, and slow markets at reduction. A
leading live stock firm sends out the following
statement of the cattle situation to customers;
Receipts, 20 carloads less than last week: mar
ket stronger at about lOc advance on nice light
butcher stock"
Hogs.
Full returns show that nearly 1000 more hogs
were received this week than last. Demand
has been fully up to supply. Receipts to-day
were only four or five loads. A leading dealer
reports that five times as many would have
found ready sale. Workers sold to-day at s. 90
as 05. The same grade at Chicago were quoted
at 81 75. At these figures our packers are able
to do better at Chicago than at Liberty This
has been the complaint all this season, that
prices here have been held up too high.
The difference between here and Chicago
should not be more than 10 to 20c per cwt. One
of our packers said: The East Liberty dealers
have been standing in their own light this
season. We have procured most of our sup
plies from the West but would have been glad
TO buy at home if we could have done as well
here"
The drift of hog products is upward. Mess
pork is l5c higher than closing prices of yester-
day Lard too has advanced slightly and is
firm.
The signs are that hog products have touched
bottom and that from now on better prices will
be realized.
There is nothing bright in the sheep situa-
tion.
Receipts this week vary scarcely any from
last.
Markets Sluggish.
Markets have been sluggish all the week, and
prices are off 25c per hundred. The outside
figure for choice wethers is 81 80 and it is likely
that a cash customer would do even better.
The stock firm quoted above sent out the
following statement to customers yesterday:
supply of sheep liberal and market very bad.
Buyers are holding off owing to unfavorable
news from the East. From all indications we
do not look for any good IN the sheep market
for the balance of the week"
Following are the full returns of transactions
at Central Stockyards for the week:
RECEIPTs.: