The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-02
GENERAL LIVE sroCK MATTERS.
Advance in Cured Meats Aided n LO-
cal Institution.


Hog products and cured meats of every
class have recently made some rapid ad-
vances in the commercial markets and
one of the results has been to handsome
~ increase the earnings of the Utah
Slaughtering company, the institution
which has done so much for the farmers
of the territory by furnishing a good
market for all the porkers they could
raise. The company has always paid Chi
cago market prices for the live hogs and
by pursuing very conservative course
its stock has accumulated to such proper
lions that it is now able to supply the
markets of the territory with very Su-
periOr meats and lard for the remainder
of the season. OF course, there are other
packing institutions after the Utah trade,
but the majority of the merchants are
showing their appreciation of home indus
try by purchasing almost exclusively
from the home company, which has al
ways met all competition and sold its
products as low as the lowest.
By great deal of Skirmishing the
company is still securing some small lots
of Utah hogs, but shipments are also
coming in from Idaho and it is antici-
pated that a sufficient number of the
porkers will be received to keep the
slaughtering department in operation for
some weeks yet.
Cattle Received and Branded.
The Union Stock yards resembled the
home ranch of some great live stock COM
pany, the reason being the wholesale
branding of cattle which was going on
there. On Sunday sixteen carloads of the
Ryan Ream cattle, just sold by j. r.
Hickman and his associates to Thomas
Keogh, arrived at the yards and fed over
Sunday night and Monday, being shipped
out last evening for the north. The stock
had not been branded since the receiver
placed his iron on them and therefore
yesterday was devoted to that work. AT
Bancroft, Idaho, the cattle will be un-
loaded this morning and near there
ranged during the summer. There were
ATS head in the bunch.
Prices Are Still Encouraging.
Prices of cattle still continue to ad-
vance on the principal live stock markets
of the middle east and it is very evident
that the top notches have not been nearly
reached vet During the coming few
weeks some heavy Shipments of t1f2b and
Nevada cattle are to be made and a num-
Der of local deals are to be closed up
this week.
Out on Green Grass.
James Andrus, president and general
manager of the Great Canaan herd of
southern Utah, is still in the city and
will probably remain for some days yet.
He yesterday received adviceS from the
south to the effect that the green grass
is making splendid growth all over the
ranches of his company and those of the
entire southern part of the territory and
extreme northwestern corner of Arizona
where several of the big Utah herds
range. The cattle are getting out onto
the new field and are in first class condi-
ton. Iney came out OF the winter in
exceptionally good shape and the south
will this spring turn out some prime
stuff. All of the sheep which wintered
on the Trumbull mountain and in that
vicinity have left for the north, much
to the delight of the stockmen of that
section. Several large fiocks of the wool
growers wintered in toward the breaks
of the Colorado and greatly damaged the
primary rights TO the use of the country
for grazing purposes.
BIaclSfoOt Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Blackfoot
Cattle company was held yesterday after
noon, over 100000 shares of the 100000
shares being represented. At the election
of officers the following board of direc-
tors was elected: Francis Armstrong,
Henry Dinwoody, Charles S. Burton, Will
liam b. Preston, Heber j. Grant, Hyrum
S. Woolley and B. H. Goddard. The ex-
ecutive officers will be elected by the
board at a later date.