Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
AT HERR'S ISLAND.
Leading Features Of Live Stock Mar
kets for the Week.
CATTLESUPPLY NOT Up TO ODEMAND
And Choice Grades Bring Better Prices
Than Last Week.
HOGS STIFFER. AND SHEEP STEADY
,ATTLESUPPLY NOT UP TODEMAND
HOGS STIFFER. AND SHEEP STEADY
OFFICE OF PIrrsBURe DISPATCH. |

MONDAY. December l6. 1889. /
Markets were better than last week, and all
offerings were cleaned up at a shade better
prices A few fancy beeves for holiday pur-
poses sold better than anything offered for
months past A Diamond market butcher re-
ports that he paid 61<c for prime 1.7OO pound
steer.
The supply Of cattle was not up to last Mon
day, and butchers were prompt buyers at an
advance Of l5c to zoe per cwt on the prices of
last week. Prime heavy beeves from Chicago,
weighing l,5OO to 900 pounds sold at IS 40 to
IS s.; medium weights, 1850 to l,450 pounds.
IS TO IS 25; do loo to l,3OO pounds, 81 70 to
S. O5; prime light weights 800 to 100 pounds.
"a so to 8 rs; common to fair thin and rough
steers, s. 65 to s. 20 The market for fresh COWS
was active and firm at SIS to $50 Calves were
scarce and firm at a range Of 51Sc to &c per
pound. There were only Is head offered.
than they have been for some time past, selling
readily at SIC to 41<c per pound.
Receipts: From Chicago-L Zeigler, l2 head;
l. Gerson, 96; A. Fromm, 65 l. Rothschild 4
Co, 81. From Ohio-Needy & Smith, "a. From
u Total, 4O9i last week, 5l2; previous week,
Sheep and Lambs.
The offerings were light and demand was
good, but hardly up to that of last Monday.
The following prices were maintained, but no
more: Best heavy native and Western wethers,
S565 Is; good to choice medium weights, 81 so
"a 90; fair to medium do, 81 25@4 45: common
and mixed lots, So 50@4; lambs, 5000 per
pound. William McCrearT sold l5O head of
Lawrence county sheep and lambs to Winter d
Dellenbsch. prOprietors of the island abattoir,
at 5@6c per pound The sheep averaged l3S
pounds and the lambs sS
Receipts: From Chicago-L Zeigler, 2lG,head
From Pennsylvania-W. McCreary, $50; d. o.
Pisor, S.: Bingham & Co., 100; E. d. Sergeant,
IS; 6. FlInner, l22; q. w. Keesy, A Total,
sly; last week, 7SS; previous week, 500.
Hogs in Light Supply.
Supplies were much lighter than week ago
and markets were firm without any advance.
Best Chicago's and Ohios sold at range of
IS a5G4 10, and country hogs wholesale at
Sc 60G3 95
Receipts: From Chicago-L Zeigler, 2Ss head
From ohio-Needy & Smith, Isl; N. K
Buchanan, Sc; A B. Hank, 81 From Pennsyl-
vania-D. o. Pisor, Al; Bingham & Co., "a; E.
G. W. Keesy, z; A Roby, u Total, 9lO; last
week, lSiS; previous week, SS6
Receipts Mt Liberty.
Receipts Of cattle at East Liberty to-day
footed up 100 loads, against Ito last Monday and
12O the week before. The quality was an i'm
proVement on last week and prices were sitter
and a shade higher. The outside rate was
s. 50 in carload lots, but only few reached
this figure,
Hogs, too, were higher this morning both at
East Liberty and Chicago. At Chicago the
outside was S. 65 and at Liberty So 90
The indications at all live stock centers are
that bottom prices have been reached and that
markets are on the verge of an upward move
ment Certainly there is q move hopeful feel
ing among drovers than for some months past
By telegraph.
CHICAGO = Cattle = Receipts, 1900 head;
shipments. $500 head; market steady; beeves
s. 5Od5 30; steers. 81 6014 20: stockers and
feeders, 81 00d2 IS; Texas cattle 81 5O62 so
Hogs-Receipts, A-O0O head: shipments. 5000
heads market strong; mixed, So 1898 IS; heavy
S. 45G3 20; light, S. 50G3 20; skips, s. OO0S 4G
Sheep-Recelpts, 7,5OO head; shipments. 1900
head; market steady; natives, s. OO95 5O West
ern corn-fed. s. 0Od4 so; Texans, So O024 20
The -DroDeTss Journal special cablegram
quotes best American cattle lc higher than last
week. The general market is well supplied
with All kinds except American cattle; medium
TO choice steers, u1fGl3
PHILADELPHIA - Beeves - Receipts, 400
head, making 2,40U head for week. Arrivals
included LIS carloads for city slaughterers
loads for the market The market was fairly
firm; prices l06l5 cents per 100 pounds higher.
Common to strictly prime native steers sold at
So 50Q5 so per 100 pounds; bulls and dry cows
at 81 5O93 o. The steers sold at IS so per 100
pounds we're semi-Christmas cattle. The
weeks shipments included $3.50 beeves ana
1870, quarters Of beef; calves, receipts co.,
making l920 for the week.
BUFFALo-Cattle dull and lower on common
grades; choice fairly active and firm; receipts
1SS loads through, go sale; choice to extra
export steers. s. 1894 20; common to good ex-
port, s. 1904 90: choice heavy butchers, SS 4O0
4 CO. Sheep and lambs-Demand good and
higher; receipts, 2S loads through, As sale:
sheep choice to extra. s6 6O@6 20: good to
choice, IS 2545 so; lambs. choice to extra s. so
az IS; good TO choice, IS 2565 S. Hogs fairly
active and lower; receipts, Is loads through
l5O salei mediums and heavy, So 1898 so.
KANSAS CITY-Cattle-Receipts 1850 head:
shipments, 8 406 head; good cattle 5llOc higher;
others steady; natives S3@4; cows 81 5OG2 80;
seockers and feeders s. O0@3 90. Hogs-Re-
ceipts. 6,OS4 :head; shipments, none; market |
253G5c higher: extreme range, s. 5O63 so; bulk. |
So 521T43 30 Sheep-Receipts. 525 head; ship |
ments, l097 head; market steady; good to choice |
muttons IS SOG5 90; stockers and feeders, S3 Is |
az co.