Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
FEATURES OF TRADE.
An Unprecedented Activity in the
Canned Meat Industry.
THE PRICE LIST TO BIZ ADVANCED.
Chicago Dressed Beef Firms Satisfied With
the Outlook.
CATTLE TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA
THE PRICE LIST TO BIZ ADVANCED.
CATTLE TRADE In SOUTH AMERICA
OFPIcE.o OF THE DISPATCH,
PTrrsBURG, TUESDAY, June 2s.


There has been no time in the history Of
the canned meat industry when trade wa.
anything like as lively as it is now. The
picnic season is at its height, and the de.
mand for outing meats shows that a large
proportion of the population is taking to
the woods A representative of the lead
ing Chicago firm which makes speciality
in canned meats said in an interview yes
terday:
1--WE are so far behind our orders in the
line of canned beef that am afraid we
will not be able to catch up this season.
The foreign demand has been SO great this
summer that the Chicago house that rep.
resent has not been able to furnish one
half the supplies we need for our trade.
We are now 5000 cases or 100, 900 pounds
behind in our orders, and at the very best
we will not be able to catch up under six
weeks. The unprecedented demand has
stimulated prices and an advance of Is
cents dozen for canned beef will be es-
tablished this week. The present price is
81 60 per dozen of two pound cans"
Canned tongue and Clipped beef are pre-
pared in one pound cans. The former will
be advanced 15c and the latter 10c per
dozen in the next day or two. The price of
canned tongue is now 81 IS per dozen and
Clipped beef 81 so per dozen.
The increased volume of trade over last
year. is not less than 100 per cent thus far,
with the best of the season yet to hear
from. Within a few years the picnic season
closed about the beginning of September.
Among the new features of the canned meat
industry fs the attachment of a key opener
to each can.
The Dressed Beef 7dustry.
The number Of Chicago dressed beeves
handled by the butchers of this city will not
fall far short of 600 at this time when de-
mand for meat is at its lowest point. A few
weeks ago the total reached loo above this
figure. A fair estimate places the amount
of Chicago dressed beef which is sold in
the Diamond markets at one-half the total.
There are now three Chicago beef firms rep
resented by agents in this city, two of which
have storage houses in Allegheny as well as
Pittsburg.
A salesman of one of these houses said yes
terday: 81 have on my books the names of
2l0 butchers that supply. These butchers
are for the most part in the two cities but q
number are located in the surrounding
towns. We are now receiving about seven
car loads of dressed cattle every week with
so head to the car, and have received and
sold as many as nine car loads per week this
year"
Dressed beeves are selling at a range of
5S4c to &C per pound.
South American Cattle.
The current number of the Chicago Hide
and Leather furnishes the following facts:
South American advices bring the follow.
ing later reports concerning slaughtering
operations on the River Plate and Rio
Grande, to which are added our usual CON-
parative statistics for the three years preced-
ing:
TOTAL SLAUGHTER FROM BEGINNING OF THE
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