Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-31
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Leading Features of Markets at the
East Liberty Yards.
THE GRADE OF CATTLE IMPROVED.
Light Receipts of Sheep and Lambs
Strengthen Markets.
HOGS IN LIGHT SUPPLY AND DEMAND
OFFICE OF PITrsBURG DISPATCH I
WEDNESDAY, October 60. 1883.

OFFICE OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
WEDNESDAY, October 90. 1853.
Receipts of cattle this week were about
$50 carloads, or about 20 loads more than
last week. Quality averaged up better than
for some time past. There was larger pro-
portion of export cattle than usual in. this
weeks receipts. Some 25 loads of Ohio
steers, weighing from ], $50 20 l,6O0 pounds,
found ready sale at a range Of &c to 4115c,
being bought BY Myers, Gilchrist & Co. for
export. This firm was the only one in the
field buving export cattle. They had no op-
position and no competition.
The Best Export CntIle
sold in Chicago this week at S. 10, and
very few in a retail way brought the same
price at East Liberty. A leading stockman
of Liberty upon being asked this morning
why prime cattle should bring higher prices at
Chicago than here, said: "At Chicago the
primes are much better than anything offered
at our yards of late. Here we will have few
car loads of what are called primes, whereas
there will not probably be more than two or
three in each load which are strictly prime. In
Chicago there are offerings every day OF cattle
by the car load which will grade up first quail
ity through the whole load.
''For this grade there are always buyers
there, and the Pittsburg butchers who want
this class order direct from Chicago.
Very Rarely to be Seen.
"a full carload of prime cattle Is something
no longer seen at the East Liberty yards. OF
the 25 loads received this week called prime,
not more than four loads of the best quality
could have been culled from the entire lot"
Good butchering stock, weighing frem !, 200
TO l.3OO pounds such as this market demands
of late held up fairly well to last weeks prices.
All low grade, half-fatted stock was slow.
and as large quantities of this grade have been
dumped on to our markets of late by farmers
who wish to save the expense of winterlng,
sales are only made by liberal concessions
sheep and Lambs.
Supply was unusually light and little more
Than half that of last week. Quality was gen
eIaIly inferior, and markets, while more active
than last week did not come up to general ex-
pectations. A few very choice punches sold
better than a week ago, and all grades may be
reported a shade better, a fact que entirely to
short supplies.
With run equal TO last week, and the pro-
portion of low grades as large as this weeks re-
ceipts, bottom would have dropped out OF mar
kets.
Lighter Run of Hogs.
The run of hogs was lighter this week than
last but was fully up to demands of trade.
Regular buyers have not as yet begun to dip in
heavily. The best selected hogs were quoted
to-day at s. 40@4 IS.
At Chicago this morning 81 10 was the out
side rate, and total receipts there were 1900
head. Tuesday is the great day for nearby
hogs at the East Liberty yards, and markets
are always weaker on that day because of low
quality of stock. Said a leading dealer this
morning:
'sOur neighboring farmers cannot understand
why their hogs do not bring the same prices as
those from Chicago.