The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-19
FEW CATTLE SHIPMENTS.
De RicqIes Gives His Ideas on the
General Market.


About the only shipments Of Utah
cattle down on the slate are those to
be made by Saunders & Tisdale, to-
ward the end of the present week.
This stock will not go onto market.
however, but will be fed until spring
IN wyoming and North Dakota. Mr..
saunders went south again yesterday
morning Tor the purpose of receiving
Inc LOO head of steers just purchased
IN Mh.ard county by him and will
load ait Oasis and Juab.
Speaking of the live stock market,
A. r. de RICHES yesterday said he
could not understand what made the
country bullish on cattle. There is not
the slightest cause for it. Prime heavy
Cattle, that usually sell around 81 per
hundred at Chicago ait Christmas time
are away down. and there is very little
demand for them at ali. According to
Clay Roblnson's report the average for
the top steers, Xmas beef, for the past
eleven years at Chicago is $685.. This
year there are very few cattle that
VIII bring Sc. There has been a tire
mendous increase in the receipts of
pork this year over last, and at lower
prices; hard times change people from
high priced beef eaters to cheap meat
pork consumers; and when such people
do buy beef they want a cheaper class.
This has given strength TO the market
for the more ordinary class Of fat cat
tie and they have kept up pretty we'll.
Western cattle are not bringing very
high prices-a bunch of good Nevada a.
steers weighing from 1850 to LOO
pounds sold at the Missouri river last
| Saturday for $3.50. On an average of
| 1850 pounds this would leave the own
er SIT, after paying shipping and other
charges. Hogs are selling lower, and
Saturday were selling at about the
lowest prices for 1898. Sheep are show
ing a little strength, and good choice
! Utah wethers will sell around $685. per
100 pounds. OF course, Xmas time is
acknowledged to be the worst time
to market cattle or sheep that are not
| extra; for the great quantities of pout-
TRY and game which flood the market
alt that time cause a decreased demand
for dressed meats. The Mexican cattle
are going to cut a big figure next sea-
SON in the sales of young steers for
the range. One can buy good yearlingS
for So; add 20 per cent. duty and 81
for freight and our Utah producers
will find they have to compete with
yearling steers that only cost $3.50
laid down in here. These Mexican cat
tie when put on a good northern range
as yearlings, come out all right; and ]
would not be a bit surprised ito see a
big lot of them brought into the ter
ritory next season. When the corn was
injured last summer in Kansas, Ne.
braSka and other corn states, the idea
was general that there would be no fec
cattle towards the end of the winter
With the idea that fed cattle would be
high at that time, almost anybody thai
could get a feed lot has taken to feed
ing wheat, barley and other chopped
feeds.
"They have even gone SO far as tt
bring up cotton seed meal to Kansa.
points from Texas. The great number
of cattle being thus fed, the enormou:
number of cattle being fed this winter
in Texas and the hay cattle of tn,
west, will, I believe, keep prices at TIL,
normal, if not lower throughout TIL,
winter and early spring months. 1T il
on account of these reasons that
cannot understand the feeling amons
growers that a period of high prices i!
soon to prevail. / think that the bes
thing that Utah raisers can. do is tt
feed alfalfa to their cattle; not so mucl
for big flesh as for good condition; TO
in April and May the Kansas and Ne
braska feeders will want these cattl
to go on grass back there and will
pay a. good price for a. steer in gooC
flesh. They want their cattle at an ear
lier date than we can gather them of
the range, on account of their being NJ
grass to drive on. Therefore, I woul,
advise feeding just enough to keep III
lin good condition and not for fat"
Mr.. de Ricoles left for Chicago las
evening on special business.