Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Heavy Run of Through and Local
Cattle at East Liberty.
NO NOHEAyYPRIME CATTLE OFFERED.
Good Butcher Beeves of Light Weight Are
Firm and Higher.
EXPORT CATTLE IN ACTIVE DEMAND

The run of cattle, both through and local,
exceeds anything for months past. Through
receipts this week exceeded those for the en-
tire month of June. Local receipts are 100
head above last week, and $40 above the
previous week Prime heavy cattle no longer
come to the Liberty yards, for good and suffi-
cient reason. viz: the absence of demand for
this grade. Our home butchers call for light
weights, and anything above l,250 to 800
pounds goes slow. For this class of cattle
prices advanced l0@l5c over last week. and all
on hand of this grade found ready sale. There
are no heavy prime cattle on the market All
this class is gobbled up at Chicago and other
Western cattle centers for export purposes.
The demand for export cattle for some time
past has far exceeded supply, and for a very
good reason.
While prices have steadily declined on this
side of the water for the past year, until there
is a difference of more than 81 per cwt from
prices of year ago. the decline at Liverpool
has not been more than half this amount.
Herrs Island drover said day or two ago:
dealers in export cattle must be having a
bonanza. Judging from prices which have pre-
vailed at Chicago for a few months past The
outside price at Chicago is 81 35. The cost of
delivering at Liverpool will, in round numbers,
be 81 per cwt. The price there at latest ac-
counts S. to Sc %. leaving a comfortable
margin OF profit for the exporter"
One of our prominent butchers said to-day:
'"The offal of a bullock is worth at least IS more
in Liverpool OF London than it Is in Pittsburg
In the old world they gather up the fragments,
SO that
Nothing Goes to Waste.
Calves feet are there worth so GER is a cwt. A
set of bullocks' feet will bring shlIings, or 81
A calfs head is worth dollar. L have known
them to bring as high as S5 apiece In PaJis. The
mouth of a bullock is worth rs cents in England
or France. In those countries everything is
utilized, while here large amounts are thrown
away Necessity has forced the r,eopIe of the
Old World utilize everyth' ng, and what
Americans throw into the gark age pile would
furnish handsome profit TO the cattle dealer
of the Old World"
An olu-tIme Liberty stock man in answer to
the query: is not the expoT cattle dealer hay-
ing boom at this timer" said: THE inquiry
for good export cattle has been very active of
late, and we have not oeen able to meet de-
mands in this line.
THE decline of prin q cattle in the past year
has been much create here than abroad There
has been a decline, of about 81 per cwt. at
Liverpool, but the Ieciine here has been more
than double this mount"
las an onset % this, however, there is the
oimculty OF Sc curing ocean transportation
Last year Ira1 ssportation was very low. Rates
were ID 10 % er head last spring over the pre-
vious spring. This would add SOC a hundred
net to the ice of cattle delivered at Liverpool
1t is now Almost impossible to secure ocean
transport Ition of live stock, as a number of the
heavy dc alers have engaged vessels for months
anead."
Folio wing is a report of the weeks trans ac-
tions 1t the East'Liberty yards:
RECEIPTS.