Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-13
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
The Run of Cattle at East Liberty
Yards Falls Below Last Week.
PRICES FIRM AT AN ADVANCE.
Quality Of Sheep and Lambs offered, Below
the Standard.
PRICES OF PORKERs WE'LL SUSTAINED
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
WEDNESDAY March II 1890

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
WEDNESDAY. March II. 1890 !
Receipts of cattle for the week at the East
Liberty yards numbered rs loads, against 90
loads last week and so for the week previous.
While there W e e few if any strictly prime cat
tie in this weeks offerings, there was fair
average of good butcher stock On Monday
morning markets opened strong and active at
an advance of 10 to 15c per cwt. on the previous
Monday. Some dealers report an advance of
25c per cwt. on handy grades of butcher stock.
Since Monday markets have weakeneda shade,
but altogether prices have been better than
last week. Drovers report that cost of cattle
in Chicago is higher this week than last, but
are better satisfied with their dealings this
week, as the advance here was greater than
there. This morning all the offerings had
changed hands. though there were a few still
in the hands of retailers.
The highest price obtained this week so far
as could be learned was 81 75, and only few
touched this figure. Primes would have easily
brought 25c per cwt above this figure in car
load lots. There were no choice fresh cows in
this weeks offerings. Such would have COM
manded S45 per head. The best offered sold at
$50 per head. The supply of calves was fully
equal to demand at range of 515@6Ac per n,
according to quality: Rough. heavy calves. or
at 2@31sc Per h.
Sheep and Lambs.
The quality of offerings this week has hardly
been up to the standard. Few natives have been
on the market for week or two past. At Herr's
Island there were only % sheep and lambs on
sale this week, when 800 to 400 head is the usual
quantity. This morning there were three loads
on the market at East Liberty-all Western
sheep. One of these loads, which averaged l02
bs to the head, sold at SIS IS per cwt and an
other, averaging liz MS, brought S. 30. The re-
naming load was offered at S. 65, but up TO the
time of our leaving the yards had found no
takers.
Western wethers, it seems, do not come to
our markets In as good condition as the home
grown. Where corn is in greatest abundance
1t IS most sparingly fed; and as our markets
have been largely dependent on the West for
getting larger share of dry, tough mutton
than usual.
The hog markets have been fairly steady this
week as compared with last At Chicago
prices are shade higher. Top prices there
this morning according to advices received by
one of our leading pork packers, was 81 Is. and
at East Liberty S4 30@4 35. At the latter yards
81 40 was asked for load this morning, but
buyers were not disposed to catch on. On the
18th of March, 1889. the top price of hogs at
East Liberty was IS Is. a difference of 75c per
cwt from rates to-day.
Mccall & Co.'s Weekly Review.
Good cold weather last week made good
meat market, and butchers sold out, and the
supply Of cattle that was on the market this
week sold rapidly at an advance of 10 to 25c
per cwt. Prime:l 800 to 1,6OO ms, 81 COCA IS;
good. l,2OO to 1.400 ms, 81 25Q4 81; good
butcher grades. 1000 to 1.3O0 MS. So 6O@4 10;
butcher grades. 900 to l100 ms, So 6O@4 90;
mixed lots. cows and heifers, 50 5O@3 so; bulls
and fat cows, So 25@3 so; fresh cows and
springers, very dull, general sales SIS 00@30 90.
Few extra cows higher.
The receipts of hogs have been very light since
MOQ02y and active n n
good and slow on common and light pigs.
We quote the market to-day as follows: Phila-
35 common to fair Workers, 81 1904 20; pigs,
So 1894 90; roughs. So 25G4 90.
The receipts of sheep this week were fair,
and the market active at unchanged prices.
Indiana wethers. weighing 1l0 to 120 MS, IS esq
s 90: good. 80 to 100 lbs, SIS 35@5 go; fair to
good geI, mixed. IS to 50 ns. 81 sOg5 20: good
50 to 80 lbs. 81 25@4 rs; good lambs, s8 OO@6 Is;
common to fair, 50 0O@5 SO; veal calves, ITO to
l2o ms, S. 50@6 90; heavy calves. 50 5003 90;
spring lambs selling from to 12c per N.
By Telegraph.
NEW Observation-Disclosures. I,S25 head;
firm and steady for all grades; poor to good
steers, S3 90G4 80; bulls and dry cows, ST 750
1214. Exports to-day 627 beeves and 276O
quarters of beef. Dressed beef firm, 54@71Ic
for sides. Calves-Receipts, S64 head; dull and
weak tor all sorts; veals IS OO@S 90 % loo MS;
grassers and Western calves at 81 25@3 Is
Sheep-Receipts, 2,49I head; firm and steady
for good sheep; steady for lambs ;Eheep. SIS 62L
@6 Is; lambs, So 5O@7 So Hogs-Recepts,
,546 head; all direct to slaughterers; nomi-
nally steady $4 2o@4 65.
CHICAGo-Cattle-Receip 13, 500 head; ship
ments, 5000 head; market weak and l0c lower;
beeves 81 8OG5 10; steers, SO 4094 20: stockers
and feeders. 81 40@3 65; cows. bulls and mixed;
81 40@3 80; Texas cornfed steers So 10@3 IS: cows
S2@3 40. Hogs-Receipts. "a. 900 head; shipments,
1000 head; market strong and a shade higher;
mixed, So 90@4 10; heavy's3 95@4 Is: light. $4 00
"a 90 Sheep-Receipts, 5000 head; shipments,
LOCO head; market STEADY; natives, So 1896 80;
Western cornfed. 81 S0@5 IS; Texans, So 75@
Is: lambs, S. 00@8 so.
ST. LoUIs-Cattle-Rece 1900 head; ship
ments, 800 head; market strong; good to
fancy native steers, 81 30@5 90; fair to good do,
So 30@4 40; stockers and feeders 81 30Q3 so:
range steers, 81 40@3 75 Hogs-Receipts, 4,30O
head; shipments, 1,500 head; market stronger;
SS 1904 90: light, fair to best, So S5@4 90. Sheep
Receipts, 200 head; market strong; fair to
choice. 81 00@5 so: lambs, S. 00G6 ~.
KANSAS CITY-Cattle-Receipts 1925 head;
shipments, $500 head: market I0@l5c low
er; steers SO 25@4 70: cows. 81 SO@3 90;
stockers and feeders. 81 S0@S 80. Hogs-Re-
celpts. 800 head; shipments. 400 head: mar
700 head; shipments, 200
head; market steady and unchanged.
IND1ANAPonIs-CattIe- light; mar
ket steady and demand good; shippers. 81 50@
4 go; butchers. 81 25@3 so; bulls. 81 5O03 %.
Hogs-Receipts, 2, $50 head; market a shade
lower; choice heavy and medium. 81 00@4 l216;
mixed, S. 9544 10; light, 81 0004 12]a. Sheep
Receipts light; market active; lambs, IS 5O@
6 90; sheep, 81 75@5 65.