Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-24
LIVE STOCK REVIEW.
Largest Cattle Receipts of the Season
at East Liberty.
ALL GRADES SUFFER SOME DECLINE
Heavy Decline in Calves and Beeves Of
Inferior Grades.
SPRING LAMBS JOIN THE DOWN MOVE
LII GRADES SUFFER SOME DECLINE
SPRING LAMBS JOIN THE DOWN MOVE
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATCH,l
WEDNESDAY, lnlY % 1890

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
WEDNESDAY. July %. 1890
The receipts of cattle at the East Liberty
yards were the largest of the season. There
were $50 car loads on the market Monday,
and about half dozen loads from surround
ing counties have been received since Mon
day. The contributions from Chicago were
not above 80 loads, rather light run from
that source. A number of loads were from
local points in Illinois. There were very
few strictly prime beeyes in this weeks
offerings, nor were there too many tidy butch
er cattle weighing from 200 to 1,150 lbs. A
few loads of heavy cattle, good ways below
prime were offered. A large proportion OF the
offerings were what stockman called trash,
or, in other words, heavy and light, coarse
cattle not well rounded out which are not
wanted in this market
Said be: There was large sprinkling OF
coarse, heavy. thnnish cattle, neither fat nor
poor, but bony, and for this grade there is no
demand in our markets. Markets opened
heavy on Monday at decline OF lOc TO oOc per
per cwt from last weeks prices.
The greatest decline was on inferior grades,
and least on tidy, light butcher cattle. But all
grades suffered from the heavy influx OF low
grade stock. On ordinary run light, smooth
butcher cattle would have held their own. But
the anxiety to unload forced holders to break
cars and sell tops, and as result all grades de-
clined in price. The inferior STOCK pulled down
the choice stock. The highest price paid was
81 so for some prime butcher cattle from Ohio
weighing little over / 200 rs, which were very
hne in flesh and quality.
Prevailing Prices.
Good butcher cattle from l 050 to ], 200 pounds
ranged in price from SIC to &c per pound.
Heavy coarse beeves ranged from &c to 81 &c per
pound. Trashy stock sold as low as &c to 213c
per pound. There were abo1t 80 loads sent on
in first hands. and this morning there was a
large number of odds and ends in the yards un-
sold. These must be sold at a great sacrifice or
carried over at heavy expense. There was lit
tie in this weeks operations to furnish encour-
agement to the drover. According to general
estimate the only question is as to the extent of
losses. Calves are of 81 so = hundred from
former prices of last week. A load from Chi
cago on Monday broke the market, and it has
not yet recovered. Veal calves were slow at
415c to 51Sc, and grassers at 215c to 315c per
pound.
Good sheep are steady at last weeks prices,
while commen and medium grades are l5c to
25c a hundred lower. There were very few
good sheep on the market this week. Stock
men report that there were very few in the
country. The best price received this week
was S4 30 for few punches of Washington
county sheep. Spring lambs were in excessive
supply and markets were slow at a drop of 75c
TO 81 OO per hundred. The highest price re-
eeived was 81 and the same grade would have
readily brought &c last week. There were but
two carloads of hogs on the market this MORN
ing and prices were steady at a range of s. so
20 81 90.
Mccall & Co.'s Weekly Review.
The supply of cattle heavy, demand moder-
ate, market slow; neat, handy cattle selling at
a decline of 10 to l5c per cwt., while heavy,
coarse and unhandy grades decline fully 25 to
40c per cwt. We give the following as ruling
prices: Prime, 1.90O to 1,60O lbs, 81 25a4 so:
good 200 to / 400 Ms So 90Q4 25; butcher grades
LOO to 1900 rs, SS 6O13 80; common to fair,
1000 to loo Hs, So 25G3 20; stockers and feed
ers, 500 to LOO rs. 81 1898 40; mixed lots COWS
and heifers, 81 2592 70; tat cows and bulls
& 00G2 90; fresh COWS and springers, S20G35
per head.
The receipts of hogs since Monday has been
very light and the market dull and slow. Reg
ular buyers doing little trading last two days.
We quote the market to-day as follows: Me-
dium and selected. 81 00G4 05; best cornfed
Workers, 81 90 4 05; grassers and common York
ers, S3 IS to So go roughs. IS 90 to SS 40.
The supply of sheep this week was light;
market slow at a decline of l0c to l5c per cwt
from last weeks prices We quote sales as fol-
lows: Prime Ohio and Indiana wethers weigh
ing here los to ITO lbs, IS 20 to IS 40; good, 90
To ITO lbs, 81 50 to S. 20; far TO good mixed,
rs to so lbs, 81 Is to 81 IS: good yearlings
So 90 to IS 5O far to good 50 to 60 lbs 81 25 to
g 70; spring lambs IS 90 to Sc Is; veal calves,
IS q to S6 90.