Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-09
FEATURES OF TRADE.
An East End StOckman Furnishes
Some Items of General Interest
CONCERNING A TRIP TO WYOMING.
Present Situation and Outlook Of the Whole
sale Shoe Trade.
GOOD PRODUCE RATHER SCARCE NOW
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DrsPArcHl
M A Z

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH
TUESDAY, April s, 1890. (
An East Liberty stockman, who has Just
returned from trip through Wyoming and
Montana, in an interview yesterday ex-
pressed himself as believing that cattle were
bound to be higher in price the coming sea-
son than they have been for year or more.
Said he: Il am confident that through the
cattle raising-region south and west of great
Rollins in Wyoming Territory, the number
OF cattle on the ranches has fallen off 80 per
cent from the number of the average season.
Early last fall continuous rains rotted the
grass in that section, and this being followed
by the heaviest SHOWS for years ranchmen in
the North Park region were compelled to
drive their cattle southward the past winter in
search OF grassy valleys and places where there
was food for their herds.
In the eastern part of Wyoming and western
part of Colorado there is plenty, and the less
favored sections, are forced to draw supplies
from those sources Stockmen in Western
Wyoming are now shipping feeders to markets,
thing unusual in the trade. This is due to
advance in prices of cattle and failure of hay
and grass in that section. Prices are now 81
hundred more than at this time last year tor
stockers, and they are being freely shipped TO
points eastward where grain and hay are
abundant and cheap.
THE general feeling through the cattle
regions OF Montana and wyoming Is that all
grades of live stock must advance. The out
side price for stock cattle in Wyoming last fall
was 2s4c. Now the outside price is SIC, and at
the advance prices are very firm. The only
class of cattle selling low are mixed herds.
The advance has not yet reached this grade,
bur probably will if the upward movement con-
tinues. All cattle buyers at this stage seem to
want steers There are reported to be $1,000
Texas steers now on the way from that State
to the ranches of Wyoming and Montana
When left Wyoming last week the price of
yearlings was S 90 to $40 %; 2year olds Sl2 90
TO Sl4 co. and S-year olds, Sl6 90 to SIS co. These
prices are an advance on rates of last season at
this time, and all stockmen met expressed the
belief that we were on the verge OF higher
priced era in cattle lines"
Jobbing Shoe Trade.
One of our foremost jobbers of shoes said
to-day: "our April trade starts uncomfortably
slow, and there is good reason for it in the
wretched condition Of country roads through
Pittsburg's trade territory. Our travelling
men have found it utterly impossible of late to
get to their customers without walking. The
country districts. from which a large part of
our trade comes. has been shut in from the
business world for months past We expect to
make up for lost time when the weather settles
and roads become passable.
Prices are not materially changed from last
year. There is however. a growing demand
for better grades of goods. This is due to the
general prosperity of this section and to the
fact that people are waking up TO the idea that
high-priced shoes are the cheapest in the end
For gentlemen's wear lace and congress shoes
are now the rage. Ladies and children only call
for button shoes to any great extent
Rubber goods were advanced Il per cent on
April owing TO the advance on raw materials
in Brazil from Csc to S5c per pound.
while manufacturers of rubber goods will be
forced to carry over until next season an un-
usual amount of rubber goods stocks are light
in the hands of jobbers and retailers in this
section"
As to Produce Markets.
The domestic market column reveals the fact
that cereals are on a boom, while butter and
eggs are demoralized. The advance in grain
and hay is no doubt largely due to the difficulty
of getting stuff to the market There is an
abundance in the land and there is little doubt
that the upward movement will soon be ar
rested. There are no substantial reasons in
sight for any great bull movement in cereals
Good roads will, it is believed, soon correct the
present scarcity, and reaction to the present
activity is likely to come soon.
The season is fully on for lower priced butter
and advices from the West already point to a
sharp decline.