The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-25

from the week DeIOre. SIOCkeTS anu
feeders continue in good demand at
prices much higher than the best fat
stuff. Just how long this condition of
things will continue no one knows, or
seems willing to predict. 1t is an order
IF things entirely foreign to all former
'rading, and many are wondering
where feeders expect to get off.
Heavy finished cattle that used to be
considered the only thing fit to export
are still at the mercy of the buyers,
and some days dealers refuse to even
make a bid for fear they will be taken
I'D.
The prices in Liverpool continue to
decline with no immediate prospect of
better feeling. Exporters claim to be
losing heavily, but continue to buy
with view of catching a rise soon.
but the tide continues to go out, 29o
cars this week to Europe against 264
last week and 136 a year ago. and lis
same week in 1894.
The dairy interests of the country
have been making it SO hot for the
oleomargarine makers that some of
them have decided to close up and go
into the soap business. What effect
this will have on the cattle market we
are unable TO determine at this time.
Messrs. Orson Johnson and brother of
Holden purchased last week of White
& Sons 80 head of high grade Hereford
heifers and will start white-faced
herd in Willard county. When breed
ing and individual merit is taken into
consideration no better foundation
could be got for a magnificent herd of
beef producing cattle.
1t is a settled fact by actual tests on
the butchers block that the Herefords
take the cake. You can full feed them
at any age, a thing impossible with
many of the beef breeds, and as rust
lers on the range they have no equal.
The breeding of these youngsters is
royal! They have coursing through
their veins the blood of such celebrated
bucks as Rudolph, by Lord Wilton, that
sold in 1884 for $4,000 at auction, the
highest priced bull ever sold. Lord
Wilton had for lis sic the very cele-
brated cid bull Sir Thomas, the sire of
more prize winners than any other bull
on record In fact there are but few
ptize winners hut what have more or
less blood OF this famous family.
These cattle are easy keepers, uni
folm IN color, respond quickly to good
feeding, and always command the
highest prices when offered on the mar
ket.
The market reports for the four and
one-half months this year show n in
crease of $4,000 cattle, decrease in hogs
200, sheep increase 242,OOOO
The local dealers are having a har-
vest just now, the country south about
Milford and Juab being the principal
on the trail destined to these stations
for shipment north to Montana and the
Dakotas.
E H. Parson is out west putting up
a string for early delivery.
Jack Wells is down in Sanpete telling
the sheep men who to ship to and the
'cuss" always says Clay, Robertson &
Co., and never mentions such good
firms as Siegel. Sanders & Co., and
many others we could mention.
B. F. Saunders left for Idaho and
shippers to move which he will be
receiving for some time to come for
the northwest
w. Moss came in the first part of
the week with D D car of good fat
sheep that went to Stevens & Co.
NJ K. Parsons is down on the desert
with a herd of stock cattle which he is
taking to his Colorado ranch The
purchase was made from N. S. Nelson,
of Mt. Pleasant.
W. c. Badger, of Gladstone, n. D.,
went south Monday night to the Can
non ranch to pass on 5000 or 10000 head
of stock cattle he is to secure from B.
F. Saunders and will ship them north
as soon as possible.
Angus Beisige is in the vicinity of
Oasis looking up mis- recent purchase
of 700 steers for shipment on the 18th
Hon. Quill Nebeker came back from
Milford and will soon have ship
ment in for his range near Wasatch.
E. G. Reynolds, of Newcastle, Wyo.,
was in town looking for a bunch of
one and twoyear-old steers to go north.
c. w. Price, of Montana, who is to
shortly get a few thousand young
steers from NJ. K. Parson up in Idaho,
is in town looking over the situat ton
George Neff, one of the editors of the
Daily Drovers' Telegram, the Kansas
City live stock paper, is in the city on
his way home from California and will
later on say something good about
Zion.
Will White is off for Deep Creek to
put up couple of herds of steers,
of Wyoming, and the other to A. W.
Kingsbury, of Montana.
E. T. Clark, who holds out at Farm
ington slipped in Thursday with the
remnants of his winters efforts and
closed them out to Hepworth & Son.
The Lehi Feeding company closed
out their winter deal to the United
States Slaughtering company, consist
ing as follows: Eighty cows, five
steers and twenty-four calves. They
were delivered a the yards Friday and
will go on alfalfa pasture for the
present.
James Nilsson came in with a small
drove of good COWS and steers; they
went to Stevens & Co.
The Salt Lake market just now is
the best on earth on all kinds of stock
and farmers having anything fit to
kill would do we'll to let them come
right along. No trouble to sell any
time or in any quantity.
There seems to be a great deal of
trouble just now in the social stand
ing Of the swine family. His value has
deprecated far below that of the
sheep, a condition very distasteful to
his hogShip and he gruntS it's an off
year. The shortage of 220, 900 hogs on
the markets for the first FIVE months
this year is more than made up in
the weights over last year, corn being
so cheap the farmers have fed longer
and are marketing much heavier stuff.
Sheep continue to come to the mar
kcts in clusters but find ready sale at
steady prices. Packers seem to be
liberal buyers every day. From the
earliest historic times sheep and wool
have honorable mention Creation was
not long finished before we read of
both and there is little doubt that it
was sheep skins with the woolley side
in, that displaced fig leaf aprons in the
fashion plates of the day. In Australia
the business had long start of agri-