Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-14
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Butchers Fare Better Than DroVers or
Stock kaisers.
HEAVY CATTLE LOWER THAN EVER
Hogs. Too, Tending DOwnward---Sheep and
Lambs on Reflection
HAVE CONCLUDED TO FOLLOW SUIT
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH, I
WEDNESDAY, February Is, 1889.

WEDNESDAY, Feoruary 10, 1889
The run of cattle on Monday was IS loads
against IS for the two previous Mondays
About seven loads have been received since
Monday, making a total of 20 head for the
local trade this week In the receipts were
eight to ten loads of good to prime stock,
weighing from l,40O to l,60O pounds, but no
extra primes showed up in the entire lot.
Heavy cattle were l0@l5c below prices Of
last week. The range of prices for the heavy
weights was SS 1904 35 Said an old-time
dealer. Heavy cattle have not sold as low
since 1852 as they did this week. A fair quail
ity of fat, coarse beeves weighing LOO pounds
were sold at S3zc, a price below anything since
the war" All butcher grades weighing from
LOO to l40O pounds, held CD to last weeks
prices, but no more. The proportion of low
grade cattle in supplies was smaller that usual.
1t is evident, from low prices of cattle, that
butchers must be having harvest time II
their trade is extensive. While retail prices OF
meat change not, cattle are fully off 81 per hun
dred from prices OF month or two ago. lead.
ing stocl1man says that export cattle are 81 % 4
hundred below what they were SIX months ago,
which make a difference of 81 to go a mead
At Liverpool prices of meatare reported steady
at the figures OF six months ago. If there was
a living profit then. there must be Dig pront
now with gain of SIS on single beeve.
While butchers are comfortable over the
situation, droverS and commission men do not
find il so comfortable. The cattle trade has
no; for many years been so unsatisfactory as it
is at-the present time. Butchers are able to fix
their own prices. With drop of 20 carloads in
receipts. prices would in ordinary times stiffen
up but reports from all cattle dealers show
dropping markets and mean trade for this
week.
Hogs.
Receicts at Chicago to-day were 1000 head,
with markets steady on a range of 81 40G4 80.
To-day is the first time since Saturday that the
downward drift has been arrested.
At East Liberty markets are quiet with 81 20
a so as the range for heavy weights. Medl-
ums are S5 90 and light weight Workers from
s. 1905 l5 The demand at Liberty this week
has been about equal to supply. Heavy hogs
continue to be the heavy article of markets. A
nearby farmer who brings to market such as
weigh from 400 to 500 pounds. will find trouble
realizing above 41<c for his stock. This price
was accepted last week, and the situation has
rot improved in the meantime
Sheep and Lambs.
With receipts about half dozen car loads
less than last week, markets held up well with
last weeks prices, Monday and Tuesday. To-
day. on unfavorable news from New York,
markets show downward tendencies. and prices
are l0c below those which ruled on Monday.
About ten carloads are still on hand, and
holders will be forced to come down shade
from the ideas held at the beginning of the
week. A few loads were held from Monday to
await news from New York. The news failed
TO furnish the comfort hoped for. Some
shippers of sheep and lambs will be forced to
charge up something to the loss account on
this weeks deals.