Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-13
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Very Light Run of Cattle at Iiberty-Ad-
vance In Prime stock-Sharp Ad-
vance In HoEs-sheep and
Limbs Are Unchanged.

LAMBS are Unchan8eos
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPATcH,l
WEDNESDAY. February II. 1890 !
Receipts of cattle this week are fully 40
carloads less than last week. On Monday the
total receipts reported were so carloads.
Since Monday about 10 carloads have been
received, making total of 60 loads for the
week, against LOG loads last week. Markets
were more active than they were q week ago,
principally owing to light receipts The best
price obtained was 81 85 for few heads of
Southern Ohio cattle consigned to Needy &
Smith. Medium and low grade cattle we're the
same this week as last in price. Primes were
l0@l5c per cwt. higher than they were at this
time last week. There has been de-
cided Improvement in markets since Mon
day. The advance in smooth butcher
stock since Monday has been not less than 10
to l5c per cwt. Common and lowgrade cattle
we're slow at last weeks prices. The saving
clause of cattle markets this week was light re-
ceipts. The range for veal calves was DC to 615c
per b. Heavy calves were slow at a range of
215c to 81zo per h. All the offerings in the line
Of cattle were promptly taken, fact at
tributable to the light run.
sheep, Lambs and Hogs.
Markets in this department varied very lit
tie this week from last. The run has been light
and demand has been ditto. The outside price
for Western and native Wethers is SIC; lambs,
6Nc. A few extra fine punches of lambs
brought S6 So. Dealers here report
that there is no money in handling
sheep and lambs at prices they are
forced to pay in Chicago. Butchers, too, claim
that there is no money to them in mutton for
the past week or two. Certain it is that the
consumption in this line of live stock has very
much fallenSOtf of late, and, Notwithstanding
light receipts. prices have been steadily on the
decline for the past month.
Receipts of hogs were light and markets firm
at sharp advance. The range for the list on
Monday was 81 1904 40. Yesterday markets were
very firm at an advance of 10c per cwt on these
figures This morning 81 Owas asked for tops,
but the highest price realized, SO far as can be
traced, was 81 80 per cwt. Prices at Liberty
have been relatively higher than at Chicago
for few days past
AS a result of this condition of things a
number of regular local buyers have gone to
Chicago for their stock. Said one of the stock
men of Liberty this morning: THE price OF
hogs here has been relatively l5c per hundred
higher at East Liberty than at Chicago this
week. 1t is only a question of a short time
when prices here will drop. Already through
shipments of hogs are showing up lively, and
have little doubt that in the next "a hours we
will see a decline in prices, sufficient to bring
our markets in line with prices now prevailing
in the West"
Mccall & Co.'s Review.
The supply of cattle was light and the
market was fair at a shade higher prices on all
grades, closing strong We give the following
as ruling prices: Prime, 1.3OO to 1,6OO ms, "a so
"a rs; good. 1,2OO to 1,4OO ms. 81 OO94 so: good
butcher grades, 1000 to 1900 MS, So 50@4 90;
rough fat. ], 100 to LOO MS g 5Og9 rs; butcher
grades 900 to 100 ms. So 1903 IS; mixed lots,
cows and heifers 50 25@3 90; bulls and fat
cows 81 00@3 90; fresh cows and springers,
$40 O0@40 90 per head.
The supply of hogs this week has been
light and with good local demand the market
ruled active and excited. To-day the receipts
are still light and the market slow at the
following quotations Heavy and medium
weights 81 35@4 As: best Workers, "a 30@4 IS;
common to fair 81 1904 Is; light pigs, So 750
90; roughs. So O0@4 90.
The receipts Of sheep during the week have
been fair and the market ruled slow at the fol-
lowing quotations: Prime Ohio and Indiana
wethers, weighing here Ito to l20 rs, 60Q
8 IS: good. 90 to 100 ms, IS 25@5 so; fair to
good mixed, rs to 80 ms, 81 5O@4 rs: good
yearlings, IS to so MS IS 25@5 so; fair to good
so to so ms, s4 25@4 IS; good lambs, 50 0O96 50;
common to fair lambs, 50 0O95 30; veal calves.
ITO to l2O MS, S. 2596 rs; heavy calves. 81 80
as 90
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