The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-01
/ SHEEP, HOGS And CATTLE.
BManager De Ricqles Surveys The
Live Stock Situation.
AN OVER-SUPPLY OF SHEEP.
Indications Point to Lower Prices in
the Spring.
Hogs VIII Remain at High Figure for
Some Time to Come-Beef Steers
VIII Bring Good Prices the
Coming Season.

A. Z. De Ricules, secretary and man
ager of the Union Stock Yards company,
yesterday gave a HERALD reporter some
interesting information on the condition
OF the live stock market.
'tAt present. said the secretary,
t'everything in the stock market seems
to point to much lower prices and values
in sheep. All over the west are numer-
GUS hocks of sheep which are being fed in
large and small punches. Here is a
piece in the Chicago DroverS' Journal,
which says:
according to reports received by the
DrOUers Journal from sheepmen whose
opinions are considered reliable, the yisi-
bic supply of sheep at the princi-
pal feeding points is consecutlvely
estimated as follows: In Nebras-
ka, 800, DOC; Kansas, 100, 900; Iowa,
\ 100. 600: Illinois. 1OO, 900; Dakota and
Minnesota. 100, 0O0 making total OF $780,
GOO. the majority of which viii be mar
keted by the first of June. This will
be a marked increase over last year.
The CLEANERS are, however, that not all
this number will be sent to Chicago,
though nine-tenths of it will, so there is
not likely to be sheep famine for awhile
YETI
Continuing on the sheep subject, Mr..
De Ricqles said: SIN Utah, Colorado,
Nevada and Idaho are large numbers of
sheep being feed, as well as in the states
referred to. This means that commenc-
ing in about April, several large
markets will be flooded with Sheep and I
look for prices to be from 81 to $3.50
lower. Even the market east OF the Mis-
sissippi river is commencing TO feel the
effect of the immense supply in sight, and
the buyers are at this early date declining
TO pay anything like prices expected.
cit is an easy matter to see the direc-
ton of the wind. 1t is natural conse-
Quence that lower prices should follow
such squirt as the sheep men have real
lied in the past two or three years. a
good many fortunes have been made by
the owners of small focks and the feeders
of wethers in the past few years, and the
consequence is that more sheep have been
fed this year than the market can take
care of. -
HOGS ARE SCARCE.
s'Hogs will probably remain in the
neighborhood of SC. during the entire
alarming, and take the week ending Jan.
Is, it shows decrease of 49,, 600 hogs at
the four leading markets. The effect of
high prices is to cause the farmers to re-
duce their stock OF hogs, selling the sows
and young pigs before they are matured.
NATURALLY bnlb Will prevent large pig
crop during the coming year. The total
number of hogs packed since Nov. 1, was
3,675. 900 as against 6, 900, 200 year ago,
being decrease of 2, 545, 900. The indica-
tions are that the winter season viii show
a deficiency of approximately 200, 900, 900
pounds gross weight of hogs.
GOOD PRICES FOR BEEF.
1.-THE effect of this great shortage in the
pork supply will be undoubtedly to slim
ulate the price of beef, and there is not
much doubt but that the market for good
beef steers during the coming season will
be excellent and prices better than for
several years past.
''There is another feature, however,
which must be considered, and that is,
should the Worlds fair attendance be
affected by the presence of cholera in
Europe, or should cholera break out
early in the spring, the live stock market
for all classes of stuff with the possible
exception of pork, will be very bad.
The feeders of cattle have to risk this
feature. The feeders through Kansas and
Nebraska and the Missouri river territory
are feeding and carrying large St Of
cattle on the strength of the W. rs lai-
demand. Should the demand affected
as indicated above, these ca le viii BE-
thrown on the market at a q yure which
would almost exclude the grass cattle
from this inter mountain section.