The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-24
PACKERS PULLED OUT.

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| CHICAGO, Oct. 23-Quiet and ste ,diues
We're me features OF tue Cattle market to-
day. If the supply was light, SO was the
demand, and If holders were Unsuccessful
\ In their efforts to buy the 'uff at shaded
1 prizes. there was barely 3. 500 native Att lie
o all descriptions, the remainder of the
$500 ED consisting OF rangers, OF which
4 900 were westerns. The best grade of
| native steers Were quoted at Sc, the best of
the westerns nrou,d 81 30, ami choice Tex
ans As high as So 20. From those pricps
the quotations ranged downward to $l@
| l.25 Tor sca!awags. Trading i'm native
| stock was principally at $l.iG525 and
from - 80 TO S. % bought the gre ,ter part
| OF the westerns. The close WAS fairly firm.
| III hogs there was a fairly strong mar
ket early in the day, out there WAS not so
much as the semblance OF hrmness later.
While buyers did not hesit.t- to pay 5
| cents advance around the opening of bu-i-
ness, they were slow TO pay yesterday 8
price any time after 3 o'clock. The cause
OF the reaction was not apparent 1t was
not that too many nogs were offered, for
the fresh rec-iots combined with stale d d
not exceed p, coo head. but for some reason
best known To themselves. packer pulled
ont" and the close was fiat at 5!I0 cents
| off from the opening figures. Late sales
were on y basis Of s. 90 for The best heavy
and 81 % for choice assorted light. The
bulk or the days work was done below
"a 80. from 81 65 TO 81 IS taking the bulk
of The stuff. There were many sales of
pigs at S3.O0@f.50, and rough mixed lois
sold around ~ 80.
In sheep, with receipts since SATURDAY,
showing decrease of something like Ii. 900
head AS compared with the same time last
week. prices ordinarily might have bsen
expected to make a decided advance; and
no doubt would but for the circumstances
that the pens were still clogged with stale
stock. The feeling WAS firIner, of course,
but there was not enough vitality in the
demand TO lift prices to any important ex
tent. They We're quoted at IS nts and So
Tor poor 10 choice sheep atnd at 81 25614. %
for lambs.
R~ceipts-CattIe. S. 500; calves, 500; hogs.
2l,OOO; sheep. 10000.
OMAHA, Oct. 3-Cattle-Recepts 5000;
COW stuff in moderate supply aud very fair
demand. Trade tolerably brisk and prices
very generally in yesterdays notches.
Good active demand for veal calves at firm
prices. Business in stOck-rs and feeders
picking up. Cows, 81. 1908 90; calves. 50 90
$500. bulls. S2.OO@3.0O; feeder. s2.5O@
30. Hogs-Rrceipts. 5000; top prices
So 20, but fair TO good heavy AMI butcher
while poor TO good light and light mixed
stuff sold mostly at from si.40@455. Pigs
and stock hogs sold at s. 5Od4 %. Trad
ing was largely at from 81 55@4 20. Sheep
Receipts 4, 900; demand moderate, but the
general tone to the trade Was very weak
and business decidedly slow.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 23-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, $500: shipments, 400; steady
and active. Texas steers. So. 15d3 90; Texas
cows, $l.3502 p: beef steers. S3.25@5. Is;
native cows. Sl.00@2. %: stockers ami feet
er-, s. 25@3 %; bulls and mixed, 81. 50d2 so
Hogs-Rrceipts 500; shipments. 300
Steady To firm. Bulk Of sales, 81 SOFA IS;
beavies. aud packers. 81 60@4. So;
mixed. 81 25@470; lignis. So 75@445; york
ers, 81 1904. 45; pigs, s3.00@43O. Sheep
Receipts. 5000; shipments, 500. Market
steady, natives 81. 1908 90; western S2.25@
9 90; stockers aud feeders S200@2 30; lambs
So 00@4.25.