Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-28
LIVE STOCK.
REGISTER OFFICE,
WHEELING, June %, 1898.

This market is dull without quotations
lower For cattle and hogs the demand
and supply are both fair, with weaker val
ues. Sheep and lambs do not find sale,
unless choice.
Prices are reported as follows by Good
hue & Thomas
CATTLE-Extra 1000 to 200, 81 40a4 so;
good. 900 to 1000 81 25a4 40; good, 800 TO
900, 81 75a4 90; fair, 700 to 500. So 5Oa3 20;
common, 900 to 700, 81 50a3 90; bulls, 81 GOA
90; cows, 81 00a5 IS.
HoGs-Demand good; supply good; eX-
ira, IS 15a6 25; good, S. 0Oa6 10; common
| s. 50a6 90.
SHEEP - Supply fair; demand good;
extra, 50 00aS so; good, 81 50a3 90; COM
mon, g O0a2 80; lambs, 90 0Oa5 90.
Fresh Cows, $50 90 TO S2S %.
Calves, 81 90 TO s. %.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET,
Thursday, June %, 1893.
UNION STOCK YARDS, CLAREMoNT.
BEEF CATTLE.-The receipts have not
| been large this week, and the quality gen.
orally has been of better average grade
than last week, more prime tops and fair
middle cattle, and the numbers appear TO
have been enough for the moderate demand.
Prices are generally considered, on an av-
erage, fifteen cents per 100 lbs of from last
with most sales ranging from s. 75a5 80
per 100 lbs.
Prices Of beef cattle this week ranged as
follows: Best beeves 5.35a5. S511 cents, those
generally rated first quality 4$la516 cents,
medium or good fair quality. Basal. 30 cents,
and ordinary thin steers, oxen and cows,
l1a3 10. cents per 10.
| Ofthe Cattle received 305 head came from
Virginia, 100 from Illinois, Al from Mary
land. SO from Ohio, 40 from West Virginia:
- from Tennessee, l03 from Missouri, and
So head from Pennsylvania.
| Total receipts for the week S42 head,
against 907 last week, and 795 head same
time last year OF the offerings $50 head
were taken by Baltimore butchers, go by
country dealers and 40 by Eastern buyers.
Total sales for the week SIS head, against
els last week, and 81 head same time last
year.
Mich Cows.-There is full offering
and slow market, and prices are 50 GOA
10 90 lower Quotations range from go to
$40 per head, few extra at the latter fig
ure Receipts los head.
VEAL CALVES. - Receipts heavy this
week, with trade slow. Prices 81 per 100
! lbs off. Quotations 3a51S cents per pound.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts Of
sheep and lambs are heavy again this week,
exceeding by $50 head the large number
reported last week. Prices are of, with
the market greatly demoralized during the
whole week the market being greatly
forced, as there was no outside Eastern de-
mand whatever. either for sheep or lambs.
We quote sheep at PAN cents per pound
gross, with a few at Az cents. Lambs, IA
III cents. with a few extra at Sd cents per
pound gross. The receipts of sheep and
lambs this week numbered 9,2S5 head,
against 1851 head last week, and 10, 226
head one year ago.
SwINE-Trade has been slow during the
latter part of the week, with values %
cents per hundred pounds lower than on
Monday. Quotations for fair to best west
ems So 50a7 rs per 100 pounds gross, roughs
at 8 50a5 IS, pigs nominally IS 80 per 100
pounds.
on THE WHARF.
CArrLE-R Receipts were fair, and with
the demand moderately active prices
were steady, the quotations being as fol-
lows: Thin cows 81 15a2 90 per 100 lbs. /;
fat cows s. 75a3 80 per 100 lbs; bulls s. 30
aS 90 per 100 lbs: fat beef cattle. young
steers. 1900 pounds and upwards 81 50a
5 90 per 100 lbs; old oxen 81 25a2 rs per
| 100 los, and fresh cows s20a IS per head.
! CALvEs-The arrivals were rather liberal
and prices were little easier. The quota
tons were: Choice veals 5a5slc per pound,
and rough TO good s. 00aS 90 per head.
| SHEEP AND handspring lambs were
| in liberal supply, and prices have eased
of very slowly. Sheep were not in active
demand for the arrivals. The quotations
were as follows: Spring lambs 5a51Ic
per pound, and s. 00a3 70 per head.
Sheep 3a4c per pound for good to choice,
and 81 75a3 50 per head; fair 81 OOa2 W per
/ head.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Saturday evening,
June pa = The receipts were: West
Philadelphia Yard-Beeves, 1850 head !;
sheep, l, 100 head; hogs, $500 head. North
PENNSYLVANIA Yard-Beeves, 300 head !;
sheep, 1000 head; hogs, 500 head. Totals
/ for the week-Beeves 4, $50 head; sheep,
/ l., 900 head: hogs, $500 head. Previous
week-Beeves, $500 head; sheep, 10000
head; hogs. 5000 head.
Beef Cattle-The market was fairly ac-
tive. but was shade easier. There was a
fair demand for good cattle,
but common grades were neglected. Pri-
ces OF good cattle were only a shade, IL
any, lower, but common cattle were l0a20c
per hundred lower. The receipts did not
! include any for export The receipts were
heavier than they were week ago. Quo
tations: Extra. 5Jsa5a{c; good, 514a51<c;
medium, 4Jsa51sc; inferior, 411a4S5lc: COM
mon, 44a41zc: Texas, 4a4i1c; fat cows,
21{aS54c.
SHEEP.-The market was dull under a
slow demand, and prices were without
material change. B. II. Cook reports
the sale of $3.50 sheep and lambs at the
! quoted prices: Quotations: sheep, extra
| 54a51<c; good 4Jsa51{c; medium. = fa45lc:
common, 3;[a41lc; culls, 2ts1 olipped
lambs, 4a7ezc
HoGs-There was . fai for
hogs. but prices were loWe5 y