Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-24
LOCAL LIVE STOCK.
Heavier Receipts of Cattle Here This
Week Than Last, but
GOOD BUTCHER BEEyES STEADY.
No Longer Any Demand for Heavy Cattle
in the Pittsburg Yards.
GOOD SHEEP AND SWINE ACTIVE
OFFICE OF THE DISPATCH,
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, May %.


Markets opened Monday at the East Lib.
erty Stock Yards with 20 carloads of cattle
on sale against 60 loads last Monday and 81
the previous week. About 40 loads of to.
day's offerings were from Chicago, the bal.
ance being from Ohio and Indiana. There
were no prime heavy beeves on sale. This
grade is no longer in demand at our local
yards. Light, tidy butcher beeves weigh
ing from !, ,15o to 1,2oO lbs, are most in de-
mand here, and of this kind there are seldom
enough to meet demand
The quality of to-day's offerings was
described by dealer as common to me-
.dium." Buyers were present in fair force,
and markets opened steady at prices of a
week ago. The highest price paid was for a
carload of Southern Ohio beeves, the price
being 81 20 per cwt. With this exception
there were no cattle on sale which brought
above 81 70. stockers were in light supply.
but demand was light. Good feeders,
weighing from 1000 to !, 200 lbs, were in good
request.
Fresh cows were plenty and slow. There
were over 100 head on sale. mostly common,
The few choice on sale were in good de-
mand, and one sale reported ut SIS.
Common and low grades were very dull and
the day was Jar advanced before the ma
tority of this grade had found buyers.
Veal and Mutton Firm.
Receipts of calves were light as compared
with the late record, and prices were firm at
sharp advance. A sale was reported at
S. 65, advance of Soc per cwt on top
price OF last week.
The range of markets for good vealers was
S5 80 to IS T5
here were &c carloads of sheep and lambs
on sale at the opening of markets, against
90 loads the previous Monday. The proper
tion of goods sheep offered was small. This
grade was firm at prices of week ago, and
downward inclination. Spring lambs are
lower this week than last, the top of the
market being Sc per Ib, and only few
fancy were able to bring this price. The
top price of sheep was S. As
HogS-There were 25 carloads on sale
when markets opened, against II loads the
receipts, markets were active at about the
same prices ruled week ago Prices
ranged from 81 80 to S5 05. A few extra were
sold at S5 10.
At the Allegheny Yards.
Receipts of cattle at the Herr's Island
yards were a fair average, and markets
were slow at about the same prices as ruled
a week ago. Best heavy Chicago beeves were
sold ut a range of 81 IS to SIS 90 per cwt. Me-
dunn weights, 81 60 to "a rs: light weights,
81 90 to 81 80; low grades, 81 so toss so.
Fresh cows were slow sale, the only sales
COWS were sold at ST to SIS per head. Calves
were in active demand at a range of 41zc to
Be per lib.
Receipts: From Chicago-L Zeigler, ll5
head; 1. Gerson, Ill: A. Fromm, Il. From
0hio-C. Folbrecht, 4: j. Wright, 3 Total,
3l5 last week, 520 previous week, 294
Sheep-Receipts were light and markets
slow at a decline from last weeks prices.
Spring lambs suffered most from the drop
Sales were reported as follows: Sheep, 81 2J
TO S5 q per cwt; yearlings, SIS 90 to Sc 90;
spring lambs, sc to &c per pound.
Receipts: From Ohio-C. Volbrecht, Z; /.
McNeese, 80; F. Walton, SO. From Pennsyl- |
yania-D. .. Pisor, 6S; 4. Bingham, %: j. |
Reiber, IS: J. Wright, l0l: L. ID. Sergeant, 95 !
725.
Hogs-Supply was larger this week than |
last and markets were fairly active at d /
range OF IS 90 to S. 25 for best 0hios
Receipts: From Ohio-C. VoIbrecht Is
head; J. McNeese l05 Needy & Frank, 2S4;
f. Walton, IS. From Pennsylvania-T. Bing-
ham, 8: j. Wright, 4. Total, ass; last week,
$40; previous week 5Ss.
The Greenawalds had on sale at the
Woods Run yards 2l3 head of Chicago cat
tie, 50 yearling lambs and 81 hogs. The cat
tie were sold at a range of s. 10 to 81 80 per
cwt lambs at &c to SIC per lib, and hogs at
IS Is to s. 25 per cwt.