The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-29
BEEF CATTLE.
The Superiority of the Western Product
in the Chicago Market.


In the Chicago Market.
The cattle marketed this year at Chicago
have come from the common farms of the
country and from the ranches and ranges
that have been utilized for the purpose of
producing beef cattle along the eastern
side of the Rocky Mountain system from
to Texas.
In receiving three and a half millions of
cattle in the course of the year it is not
matter of wonder that we have had cattle
of every grade from the highest to the low
est that have ever been offered for sale in
any consuming market. We have had in
the course of the year many tens of thou
sands of as good beef cattle, if not better,
than could be found elsewhere in the world.
because we have had cheap corn to make
them so and they have been we'll
bred and have been systematically
treated and fed: we have had many tens
of thousands of ranch cattle of good weight
that have been we'll fattened on the rich
buffalo grasses of the western plains: large
numbers of them as good, fat, healthy beef
cattle rs need be, and we have had thous-
ands upon thousands of Stalled cattle,
steers and bulls. as we'll fattened as need
dred thousands. corn-fed and grass-fed.
and with all the rest we have had drawn
from the farms, large and small, from all
over the country tributary to this market a
vast number of cows, good, bad and lndlf-
ferent, and among these we have had many
tens of thousands OF poor, shelly old COWS
and young heifers, weighing from 600 to
500 pounds. Cattle of this low grade hard
ly vary to the slightest extent as to range
Of prices in the course of the whole year.
They are not wanted for stock cattle; in a
common way they are forced upon the mar
ket at S1(a1.25. $1.5O10l.75 per 100; many
thousands of them sell in the course OF the
of words for to say that there
handling of such stock. When such
cattle are shipped by rail for any
considerable distance and have to pay u
pretty round freight charge and have the
same commissions. yardage and feed blils
to ray as are charged to the handling of the
there can be but little left for the party
for whose account such cattle are sold.
Great and widespread efforts have been
making all over the country during the de-
cade Just closing to grade up the old scrub
herds of cattle and substitute in their place
the best herds of cattle that have ever been
known in the world. The great depression
that has held over the cattle trade of our
country and of the world, for that matter,
for the past few years has operated to dull
down the general spirit in this direction,
and pretty general feeling of indifference
has for the past two or three years taken
the place Of the better feeling which had
been worked up.
The month of October proved to be the
banner month of all that had gone before
in tho ma liter of heavy cattle receipts. Oc-
tober. 1889. 1880, 800 was the largest re-
ceipts of cattle for one month, previous to
September, 1890, when 1872, 7O6 came to the
front as being the largest. but the follow
ing month (October) showed receipts Of
392, O9S, being head and shoulders above all
monthly receipts that had gone before, be-
ing 81, 1O4 more than had been received in
October, 1889 which was the banner month
Mt tho close of last year. The great bulk
of cattle received in October we're of low
grade, and az the market through the
month was kept overstocked with cattle OF
this kind, tens of thousands of them were
sold at $1.25Qd1.5O per 100 pounds. The
month closed with the stock yards well
filed with low grade stuff for which it was
hard to find buyers at any price, and cat
tie of the best quality sold of u fraction;
average 100 to 1,350 pounds $2.7504.s5,
average 1850 to 1900 pounds $3.35M5 10,
average l 500 and over $4M5.2O, being just
about the range current for cattle OF the
came grades in October. 1889.
As matter of course range cattle came
in for a share of the pressure on prices
Heavy Montana sold Mt $3.15a3.9o, Nebras-
ka and Wyoming $3.50. Dakota $3.1O@4.2O
Dakota Texas S235>G2.S0. I he receipts OF
Texas cattle were Large and they suffered
in full proportion with all the rest. Iexa.
cows SOLD at $l.6O to So, steers $2.30M2.6O
cows and mixed cattle at all kinds OF low
forced prices, q good many sales were made
at Xl(0l. 10 per 100; fair to medium, ST..
@l.75; good to choice, $2(d25O; heavy calves
$l.50@2.5O; export bulls, $303.75; stocker'
were in large supply. assorted sold ut S2.4t
63.
Tho receipts of cattle for the month o.
November were 263,5ll, 2,l52 over Novem
Der, 1889. The market through the montl
was kept full, even overrun with old shelly
cows and thin young heifers and steers tina
were in no sense of the word fit to be offer
ed in cattle market for sale; thousand!
of such cattle were sold IN the ,co q, r.
Of the month at Toe. SIC, $1.OO, $l.1O, VI. 10
1925, Sl.3O, $l.40 to SLIGO per 100 pounds
and they were dear enough at that. hu
thousands of them were forced oil at thu
prices we have named. Their skins woult
be worth something and their carcasse
would make glue stock.
The receipts of sheep for November wer'
l63, 361, being 1S.479 larger than for Novem-
ber 1889. In any year it is a common thing
for farmers. at the close of the grazing sea
son. 10 send to market a good many sheel
of very low quality. and during the month
under review this feature in the sheep trad'
has been pretty fully shown, n good man.
sheer, having been sold rs low as $l.5O pc
100 pounds and the market through thi
month has generally been weak and dull
Montana sheep sold at $4.O5G4.15; fed west
ern, S4.65: range of good western, $4.5Ot
4.75; lambs. S4.75(G5.25. the market at tn
close of the month being slow and weak
Drovers' journal.
Lamps almost given away at The Pee Hive.
The Broadway market has the finest lot o
Christmas turks Us shown in tie city.
j. X. l.. BAZAAR.
Twenty-Five per cent. off until Jan.
1891. on all fancy sets. albums, boxes ant
dolls.
Wooden and tin toys at The Bee Hive.
Women's Felt slippers. Fifty Cents
And upwards at New England Shoe Store
For Hosiery. Yarns. Underwear an,
| Gloves try the ixnitting Factory, 213 SOutl
Main street.
Take it lefore breakfast" because
| will give you an appetite. regulate the bowel
and cleanse the system of al impurities-Dl
| Henley s fnglish Dandeiiun Ionic. so.d eyry
where.
| Toy dishes for the children at the Fee Hive.
| You have no appetite for breakfast. A fe'
doses of Dr. Henley's English Dandelion Toni