The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01


London.
The low prices in Liverpool for
American beef have checked the heavy
movements of the past three weeks.
We only sent out It's cars against 296
week ago. Other causes may have
had some effect on the trade. The
runs have been lighter and the salts
factory settlement of the labor trou-
bles at Armour's and Swift's put those
buyers in the field for more Killers
| than had been taken for some time and
gave the export buyers small line
/ of competition, a thing they have not
had to contend with since the Armour
strike began. Now that Swift q Co
have taken back most of their dis
charged employees and the Armours
are arranging to continue in full force
all through the killing season, things
may look a little better soon and 1t
would not be surprising If prices
should move up a few notches from
time to time as the supply OF dry lot
stuff decreases.
The anticipated advance on hides
may tend to spring the price on heavy
cattle Lately hides have been in a
bad shape; buyers and sellers could
not get together on any of the lines
but now the accumulated supply OF
hides in the packers hands have all
been sold and the new stock is in de-
mand at much better prices which
ought to help out heavy cattle at least
/ a nickhe or dime.
The receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep
at the four western markets this month
! h. Cattle
show an increase of 10000, hogs 6S,4OO,
and sheep 103600, for the first twenty
three days.
Many dealers will quit feeding until
prices advance so that corn can be
bought and fed at profit. Most of
the heavy cattle feeders are not farm
ers at all and can only feed at profit
when grain is high and scarce. High
corn always makes high beef and
high beef always means a margin to
the feeder.
Thirty-three years ago hogs sold in
Illinois at S175 per cent; eighteen
years ago at 2 cents, though farmers
felt poor but continued to grow hogs
and improve their breeds. Since 1878
hog raisers have had a long siege of
good prices, most of the time a nickle
and better 1t must be remembered
that in 1878 dollar was not worth
as much as it is now, and that even
this small amount of money did not
go as far IN purchasing the comforts
or necessities of life as like amount
will today When prices are low the
only thing to do is grow better stock
and decrease in every way possible
the cost of production, the lower the
market the greater will be the demand
abroad and the wider the market will
be in the future.
The modest way in which some of
the new beginners in hog culture are
dropping out of sight reminds US of
the way the Irishrnan quit the Swede.
A Swede was at work catching logs in
the river and the logs began coming
too fast for him, so he asked the fore-
man to send man to help him, which
was done A couple of hours later he
repeated his request for assistance
why" answered the foreman, Il sent
Pat down here to help you Wasn't he
all right?"
yes. Pat bane purity quite mon.
was the reply, ''but about one hours
ago he yump on log and fall in wat
, ter, and he don't come oop again. Ay
tank hee's kavit his yob."
Operations at the Union stock yards
the past week have been on the VI
grade order, and much trading ha:
been done in cattle, hogs and sheep a
good prices all around. Salt Lake Il
{ the best market in the country TO
S good stock in small quantities every
r day in the week, besides a number o
Y sales of fat hogs. Several buyers wer
in from the country for stock hogs
Most of the sales were made on tn
, basis CT cents. Shippers on the mar
I ket this week with cattle were: Leh
Feeding company, "a cows. 5 steers, l
D calves, IS cows. These went to the Utal
Slaughter company; prices not given
S ]. W. Thornley, came in with ship
ment of good steers that went to Hep
u worth & Son and weighed LOO pounds
: Stillman e. Bros. of Mill Creek ha
), ;n a drove of mMttons that had rustic
i, all winter on the desert and were goo
u enough to tip the balances at 103 L
!; pounds-good mutton for this countr
eft anv time-and went to Hepworth
p Son at &c.
9 in a shipment of grass cattle that wen
to the Utah Slaughter company an
numbered forty-eight head; price nc
given.
n ]. S. Green of Schuyler, Neb., are q
d the Cullen with Dave Donovan of Der
e yer. taking steers for summer graz
X ing.
ORC Haley oT Laramie, Wyo., bougf
{ the and 3-year-old steers in the Lilo
g park herd and 200 spayed helters rang
. ing in the eastern part of the state an
. western Colorado. Prices. we under
:. stand were: For 2's, s1975; 3's and a
! s23.a5. and for the spayed heifers. 1872
Badger Bros, H. Bowen & Paxto
= and Findly & Son, who sold to Beisigl
:, ali came up to the city on Monda
= with the shipment from Oasis.
r. George Neff left for Kansas City 0
v Thursday.
y F. 9. Harrison of Lookout Wye
; who has bought thousand Idahoe
from Parsons and 700 head from Whit
& Sons company, Utah natives. spel
:. Friday in town and returned last nigf
. to his home.
:. j. n. Whiting of Evanston is in zio
IS and is stopping at the Cullen.
d T. D. Perrine of Omaha. a commits
So sion man. is in town not for his healt
- B. F. Saunders is at Ontario. Idah
" delivering a large bunch of cattle sol
to native buyers.
n John Sparks, the COW king of N
II vada, was in town one day this wee
Il and is ready for any kind of trad
/, that will make dollar Try him.
- A. D. Hudnall of the Seigal-Saunde.
sr company has just returned from a tn
l. west cooking over the situation and r,
d ports goods rains all over