Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-02
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
The Weeks Transactions at the East
Liberty Stock Yards.
HEAVIEST CATTLE RUN OF SEASON.
Exporters and Butchers Reaping Bounti.
fHl Harvest.
SHEEP AND LAMBS IN BIG SUPPLY
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH, I
THURSDAY. August ! 1889

THURSDAY. August i. 1889 +
1t will be seen by the accompanying re-
port that cattle receipts at Liberty, both
through and local, are unusually large.
The export trade is now at its height, and
vessels are crowded to their utmost capacity,
bearing the prime heavy beeves to Europe.
Goldsmith, the leading exporter of this
country it is said, has pre-empted all the avaiIa-
Bile space on Atlantic vessels for weeks ahead.
Fifty-one carloads of cattle for Goldsmith
passed through East Liberty yards in one day
this week. Local receipts were 400 head in ex-
cess of last week, and 800 in excess of the pre-
vious week. The country butcher trade calls
for light cattle at this season, and any,
thing above LOO pounds is not wanted.
The city butcher trade calls for beeves ], 200 to
1880 pounds in weight. On these grades good
smooth stock showed a slight advance on last
weeks prices in spite of heavy run. Common
grades were off, and also prime heavy cattle,
for which there is no demand in this market.
A few loads OF the latter from Ohio, failing to
find any bidders above 81 IS. were sent East.
Prime heavy steers are no longer wanted in
this market. A Diamond Market butcher said
to-day: Il bc1ght cattle this week at 81 Is
which were betJor quality than some / paid s.
for as late as 1882 A little over a year ago
had to pay in the neighborhood of Sc for the
same grade of cattle. The drop is not nearly
as great over the ocean, and exporters of cattle
should be reaping big harvest at prices they
are paying on this side" 1t cannot be discov-
cred that butchers oil the diamond or East
End have lowered the price of steaks or roasts,
and il is clear 10 a blind man that either they
lost heavily few years ago or are having a
bonanza now. The consumer must pay his
10 or 70 cents for tenderloins and slrloins,
and with the best cattle selling at 81 . to 81 30
there ought 10 be a handsome profit to the
butcher, or else he worked for glory alone in
other years when he paid TO SC for beeves.
One Of the best posted men at the East Liberty
stockyards, who has been familiar with trade
there from the beginning, said to-day: Butch
ers must be having regular bonanza of late If
they have any trade. They may talk as they
please about losses from bad debts and the low
prices of rough meat, but their opportunities
for making money were never better than now.
pay the same for my tenderloins as / did
when beeves sold at &c to Sc per pound, and
you cannot convince me that the butcher who
buys at half these figures does not have
mighty good thing now"
Sheep and Lambs.
1t will be seen by report below that the run
this week was more than 5000 head above last
week. Notwithstanding heavy run, markets were
fairly maintained at last weeks prices. Com
mon grades were weaker. but goo0 stock held
its own. In ordinary times a run such as we
have had this week would break markets, but
the strong inclination of consumers to mutton
in preference TO pork at this time of the year.
has had the effect of holding all good stock up
to last weeks prices. Following is report of
weeks transactions at East Liberty yards:
RECEIPTS.