Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-03
LIVE STOCK.

WHEELING, June q
The demand for cattle continues fair,
with demand heavier. Hogs are steady at
last weeks quotations. Pyice OF cattle
here are somewhat lower. Prices are re-
ported by Goodhue & Thomas as fol-
lows:
Cattle-Extra, 1000 to 200, s. OOa5 ID;
good, 900 10 900, 81 75a5 90; good, 500 TO
900, 81 60a4 10; fair 700 to 500, a 0Oa4 %;
common, 600 to 700, 50 65a3 Sd; bulls, & 80
a3 90; cows, 81 15a3 %.
Hogs-Demand good; supply light;
extra, 81 6Oa4 IS; good, a 5Oa4 60; COM
mon, 81 00a4 25
Sheep-Supply free, tending to lower
prices; demand good; extra, 81 OOa4 %;
good, 50 75a4 90; common, 81 75a3 81;
lambs, s. 00a6 90.
Fresh cows are slow at S25 00a33 90.
Calves are f2ir at 81 00a5 90.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday evening, May
30, 1891. The receipts were :-West Phila-
delphia yard. beeves, 1855 head: sheep
10000 head hogs $500 head. North Penn
ylvania yard, beeves OBS head; sheep ,5CO
head: hogs 500 head. Glass Yard, hogs 500
head Total for the week, beeves 1924
head sheep II, 800 head; hogs $500 head.
Previous week, beeves, 1886 head; sheep,
$500; hogs, $500 head.
BEEF CATTLE-The receipts included 3SS
head for shipment to London per the North
Atlantic Line, PIC head for shipment
dressed to Liverpool and 200 head more was
bought for shipment to the same place leav-
ing 1924 head for the local market against
2,764 head last week. There was only
fair demand for cattle and prices declined
from u fraction on good stock to zoe. per
hundred on the common grades and at the
close of the market number Of cattle were
nd mil ha n
Extra Ga a635c; good 51sa615; medium 53
a5%c; fair 515a53sc; common 419a5c; fat
cows 2$4a44c.
SHEEP AND LAMBS were in larger sup
ply and with only a fair demand; prices
closed &c lower on all grades except spring
lambs. No wool sheep or lambs arrived.
Extra 5a53Sc; good 419a43Ic; medium IA
&c; common 3Ha3$4c: culls 2Ia314c;
spring lambs 7al0c.
Hoes were in only fair request and
easier: Western, 619a7c.
Mich Cows were unchanged at s25a50
most sales at s35a45 per head.
Mich CALVES were active at ~ a654c.
FAT Cows were in poor demand and
lower at 2sla44c.
THIN Cows were in moderate request
and lower at $SalS per head for bologna,
and Sl6a22 so per head for slippery
CITY DRESSED BEEvEs were in fair re-
quest at 7a916c for steers, and 6aI19c for
COWS.
CHICAGO, June Cattle, receipts 1900
head shipments 3 600 head market steady;
Texans 81 90a5 IA cows 81 00a3 80.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; shipments,
1000 head; market steady; rough and
common 81 25a4 30; good mixed and
packers a 50a4 60; prime heavy a 65a
10.
Sheep-Receipts 5000 head: shipments
5000 head; market steady; natives 81 50a
SIS; Texans - SOa3 50; westerns q wa
) 05; lambs s. 25a6 %.
EAST LIBERTY, PA, June 2.-Cattle-
Receipts, 49, head; shipments, 320 head {;
market steady.
Hogs-Receipts, $50 head: shipments
1000 head: market slow; PhilaGelphlas
"A 9Oa5 90; best Workers and mixed - lOa
1 50; common to fair 81 5Oa4 80: pigs - ga
40
Sheep-Receipts, 300 head shipments,
400 head; market steady at yesterday S
prices.
CINCINNATI, O., June 2-Hogs, stronger;
common and light - S5a4 So; packing and
butchers 81 50a4 So; receipts, 800 head {:
shipments. $50 head.
Cincinnati Horse and Mule Market.
CINCINNATI. May 30.-There has been
fair general business, good stock of all
kinds selling readily. Supplies have been
in excess of the demand, and as rule
prices have been maintained.
Quotations at the Cincinnati Union Stock
Yards Stables were as follows: Driving
horses at Sl25a25O: saddle horses Sl25a25O;
draft horses $l20alS0; street car horses
SS5all0; Southern horses S5Oa75; plugs
slOa50. Mules, aged four to eight years,
fifteen and "a half to sixteen hands Sl35a
l65: fifteen TO fifteen and half hands sll5
al25: fourteen and half to fifteen hands
$90all5: fourteen to fourteen and half
hands S50aS5; plugs SlOa5O
The following prices prevailed at the
Fifth street stables: Driving and saddle
horses s125a250; draft horses sl20a25O;
street-car horses s75al20; Southern horses
S65all5; plugs Sl5a50. Mules, four to eight
years, sixteen to sixteen and half hands,
sl65al9O; do. fifteen and a half to sixteen
hands S140al65; do. fifteen to fifteen and
half hands Sl3Oal40; do. fourteen and a half