Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-25

ed with the values ruling then. The
quality is about like that of last weeks
offerings We quote the range for butch
er's wool Sheep at 34a54 cents, and clip
ped sheep at 24a4 2-5 cents per pound gross.
Spring lambs 6laS4 cents per pound goes.
Receipts this week of sheep and lambs
1886 head.
BALTIMORE LIVE STOCK YARDSO
MONDAY, April %, 1899.
SwINE-The receipts, though some 800
head less than the Offering OF last week,
constitute supply fully equal to the
moderate demand at hest prevailing in
some yards, while in Others it ia reported
ga beiDg slow. The quality is good Quo
tations range from 81 to cents for
rougha, 6sa63c. for the better grades, and
a few prime Western Hogs shade higher.
Receipts this weak were 5,505 head.
CLAREMONT STOCK YARDS,
BALTIMORE, April %.
Arrivals of live stock at Claremont stock
yards via Baltimore and Ohio railroad for
the week ended April 2l:-1O4 cars, con-
tanning 500 cattle, 81 calves, 5029 sheep
and lambs, 5, 1859 hogs, snd l21 horses.
Shipments to New York, Philadelphia,
etc, SD cattle, ] ga sheep and lambs,
1872 hogs, and AZ horses.
All hogs and sheep sold in these yards
are at gross weight. Receipts this week
2,906 head, against 2, 500 last week. Fair
to good hogs sold at So 40, and roughs
at 81 so per 100 lbs.
Receipts Of sheep 1880 head, against
1, 4Ss head last week, with sales at SO GOA
81, few extra selling at 81 so per 100
pounds.
Philadelphia Live Stock Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, April 20.-Beef
Cattle-There was only fair demand for
beef cattle at the opening of the market
this morning, and prices in sympathy with
the West declined about 10c per hundred
On The upper grades, and from 15c to 25e
per hundred on the common stock. Four
cars Of Chicago steers consigned to j.
Schamberg & Co, and two cars consigned
to Samuel Sanders. total of 113 cattle,
were withdrawn from the market to be
shipped to New York, Sunday. Quota
tions. Extra, 44a4sc; good, 4a4fc; me-
dunn, 34a33c; common, 3a3ic.
Sheep-The receipts for the week were
5000 head; the receipts for the previous
week were 10, 600 head. Although the re-
ceipts were 1000 head less than for the
previous week, the demand was poor and
prices defined from 4c on wool sheep to &c
on clipped. Quotations: Extra wool 53a
&c; good wool 5}s5@c; medium wool Ala
SC; common wool 4a44c; extra clipped Ala
4sc; good clipped 4a4ic; medium clipped
3la33c; common clipped 3a3ic.
Lambs--Receipts are included with
sheep. Wool lambs were in poor request
and rates declined ic, closing at 5A7c
Clipped stock was also dull and lower at
4l6c, while spring lambs were readily
taken at So 90 6 90 per head.
HOgs-The receipts for the week were
1900; the receipts for the previous week
we're 1000. The demand for hogs was
very moderate as usual during Easter
week, and prices closed weaker. Quota
tons: Westerns 7a7ic; county 6ia63c.
Mich Cows-The demand was only lin
tied aad prices closed weak at $25a5O,
with graded stock rs high as $50.
Fat COVE were in poor request, and
palAta NlVcNA ~ AuMNA lss e-ipSs
Bologna COWS were dull and weak at
Sab per head.
Shipping cows were not much sought
after, even at Sl4a20 per head.
Mich cows were hard to dispose Of,
even at 4s6c.
Dressed beeves we're in fair request at
5a7ic for Abattoir-dressed
New York.
NEW YORK, April 24-Beeyes-R
ceipts 3, 400 head; trade dull market weak
and lower; common TO prime steers 50 50a
10 per 100 lb7; bulls and dry cows 81 Is
s3 40.
sheep-Rsceipts Is 600 head; market
dull aud lower; unshorn sheep s. 00a6 90
per 100 lbs; clipped Go 81 00a4 So;
uDshorn yearlings Sc 00a7 %; clipped do
s. 25a7 70; spring lambs 81 OOa6 so per
head.
Hogs-Rectipts Z, 500 head; market dull
and nominal; value alive s. lOa5 40.
uaicsac.
CHICAGO. April 24-Cattit-E eceiPts
IL, 600 hesd; shipments 5000 head; market
weak and lower; beeves "a 25a4 70; steers
So 3Oa4 90; stOckers and feeders 81 25a
3 Go; cows, bulls and mixed 81 70a3 10.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; shipments
4, 400 head; market slow and Zoe lower;
mixed 81 5Oe4 IS; heavy 81 4Oa4 20;
light 81 6Oa4 So; skips 80 5Oa4 40.
Sheep-Recsipte 1000 head; shipments
3, 500 head; market weak; natives 81 Goa
> 40; western corn fed 81 50a5 80; lambs
81 5Os6 90.
East Liberty,
EAST Liberty, April "a Cattle Re-
ceipts 10 besd; shipments 100 head: mar
ket slow; prime 81 25a4 40; fair 10 good
So 75a4 90; common g 50s3 so; stockers
81 5Oa3 %; feeders 50 25s3 %.
Hogs-Recsipts 200 head; shipments
700 head; market GLOW; Philadelphias
S. OOs5 10; pigs and Workers. s. 00s5 10.
gheep-Receipts 500 head shipments 600
bead; market slow; prime 81 00a4 %;
fair TO good s. 5Os3 10; common 81 Goa
3 co. lambs So 00a5 90.
Cincinnati Horse and Mule Markt
CINCINNATI, April 2O.-The market has
been fairly active, and while some days
there was a good attendance Of Eastern and
Southern buyers, there was at all times
coed local demand. Receipts Of all kinds
of stock were large and there was tend
eucy toward lower prices.
Quotations at the Cincinnati Union Stock
Yard stables were rs follows: Driving
horses S125s2OO, saddle horses $l25a20O,
draft horses, $14Oa2O0; street-car horses 500
Abs. Southern chunks $60s90. Mules, aged
to 8 years. 15i to 10 hands, Sl35al5O;
Is TO 15l h nds, S115al35; 144 to Is hands,
S9Oa115; ii to 144 hands, $75s9O.
The following prices prevailed at the
Fifth street stables: Team horses Sl55a
225. express do $13Oa165, saddlers 500
AGO streeters $75al1O, medium S6Oa75,
common S35a60. Mules to years old,
l6 to 16| hands, $135a155; do 10 to 1Gl
hands Sli5a135; do 144 to Is hands $9Oa
115; dol31 to IA! hands $65a9O.
Cincinnati.
Urro1HHATI, O., April 24.-Hogs-
Lower: common and light 81 O0a4 70;
packing end butchers' $4 GOa4 80; receipts
4, $50 head; shipments $50 head.