Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-22
AT THE STOCKYARDS.
Price Of Cattle Higher in Western
Markets and Lower Here.
HEAyYRECEIPTS ATEASTLIBERTY
DrOver More Likely to Lose Than Gain on
Deals This Week.
SWINE ARE EASY, AND SHEEP LOWER
oFFIcE OF PITTsBURe DIsPATcH,l Z
MONnAY Julv 81 1890

OFFICR OF PITTSBURG DISPATCH
MONDAY. July q. 1890 \
The supply of cattle at Hers Island was
in the main from Chicago. There were six
head from Pennsylvania. Quality was fully
up to late average and, while there was a
fair demand, prices were 10c to 15c per cwt.
lower than last week. The range of the
market was as follows: Prime heavy beeves.
IS 1905 25; good to prime medium weights,
q 55@4 IS: common to fair do, 81 05@4 20;
prime light weights, 81 25@4 30; fair to good
do, 81 00@4 10; low grade grassers, stoekers
and feeders, 81 5093 90. Fresh cows were
dull and unchanged at S2O@45 per head,
and calves scarce and steady at 57z96Hc
per h for good to choice vealers and 4(9415c
per for heavy grassers. There were no stays.
dry COWS or bulls on sale.
Receipts: From Chicago-I. Zeigler, 1l9 head;
L. Gerson, ll9; A. Fromm. rs; L. Rothschild,
s. From Pennsylvania. Bingham, 8; d. o..
Pisor, 1; G. Flinner /. Total, S7S; last week,
36S; previous week, 3Sl.
For sheep, lambs and swine the movement
was active and demand good, but with large
supply no improvement in prices occurred.
Good sheep were, however, reported higher
than week ago. The range of prices was as
4OllOhSs OOOu 10 CHOICE SQ6ep, "a OU ~ % AOs
common TO fair do, So so to S4 %; yearlings
81 rs to SIS SO: spring lambs, 415c to 65zc per h.
but very lew went above 615c by the pen. Re-
ceipts: From Chicago Zeigler, l20 head.
From Ohio-Sanford & Langdon, TO- From
Pennsylvania-G. Flinner, 81; ]. Wright, SO;
1 McNeese, l26; William McCreary, l2S; D. o.
Pisor, III; T. Bingham. Isl; H. Runger, &c.
Total, S96; last week, 97S; previous week, Sll.
The supply of hogs was very light, demand
fair and market firm at 81 10 to 81 25 Receipts
from Ohio-Needy & Smith l25 head: Sanford
d Iangdon, IS; total, 163; last week, 292; pre-
vious week, SSS. An old-time Herr S Island
drover said this afternoon: II do not expect
TO come out more than even on my live stock
deals this week. Prices at Chicago were 1Oc
higher on my last purchases than on the pre-
vious ones, and could get no better prices
than last week. 1t is poor time for the
drover's trade in this section"
Woods Run and East Liberty.
There were I75 head of cattle on the Woods
Run market, I54 of which were from Chicago,
the balance from Ohio Markets were rather
slow, with the situation In buyers favor. Chi
cago beeVes ranged in price from S4 Is to SIS 10
Ohio cattle from 81 25 to 81 S. The best on the
market weighed $50 Bs. All were Sold but
margins of profit must have been very small,
II, indeed. there was any margin, as prices paid
at Chicago were shade better than last week,
and no better here,
There We're 40 sheep and lambs on the
market Sheep sold from SIS to so, yearlings
D
were no hogs on the market and will not be
uutil the middle of September when butchers
begin to slaughter hogs. At East Liberty there
were lou loaqs OF cattle on the market at East
Liberty yards against 100 last MONDAY and 70
the previous Monday. The great bulk of the
onerings were common and inferior grades
Ildy, light butcher beeves and heavy primes
were scarce, but suffered some from the depres-
sion caused by the large run of light and heavy
coarse cattle. The attendance of buyers was
good, but they were disposed to make the most
OF their advantage from the heavy run At
the opening Of markets concession of 25c per
cwt. from last weeks prices was demanded by
the buyer, and jt looked as though this conces-
SION might be made on some inferior grades
By reference to last Mondays report it will
be seen that prices then dropped Sc to l5c be-
low prices of two weeks ago. Markets to-day
were slow at similar decline. Tidy butcher
beeVes weighing 100 to 200 lbs. suffered least
from the decline because of their Scarcity
There were few loads of 1850 to /, I,4OOIb.
beeves on the market from Ohio which were
exporters and shippers was 81 40 The range
for butcher cattle NRs IS 90 to 81 90 per cwt.
Features of the Market.
There is little doubt that fully one-third of
the cattle on the local market this morning
will necessarily be shipped East in first hands
Our local trade calls for about rs loads and
when double this number are on the market as
was the case to-day, it is easy to predict the
outcome.
There were ID loads of sheep and lambs in the
East Liberty yards this morning. and markets
opened heavy at a decline of Is to 25c from last
Mondays prices. There were two loads of
very good Washington county sheep weighing
S5 ms on the average, which were sold at
So 35. The same would have brought S. so a
week ago. Some Missouri sheep weighing 81
MS were sold at 81 80 and 66 head of spring
lambs from the same source were SOLD at Sic
The outside price for lambs this morning was
SIC per D. UnfavoTable news from Eastern
markets had depressing influence on trade
here. The number of pigs on sale was IS loads,
and market opened up slow at S. 50 to 81 90 as
the range of prices.
zCArTLE-R Receipts. 442O head; shipments.
2S6O head; market dull; shade off from last
weeks prices; 49 cars cattle shipped to New
York to-day.
Hoes-Receipts. 6.4OO head: shipments. $500
head; market firm: medium and selected s. O5
"a 90; common and best So SO@3 95; heavy,
y S0G5 ~; lS cars of hogs shipped to New
York to-day.
sHEEP-Receipts, $500 head; shipments, 1900
headi market slow; 10 to 20 cents off from last