The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-10
LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
THE RUN OF CATTLE AND SHEEP
is QUITE LIVELY.
London and Liverpool Market
Stronger For Good American Cat
tIe-HOg Products Take n Jump,
Much to the Discontinue of the
Shorts.


The condition of the live stock mar
ket at the four principal trading points
the past week has been somewhat on
the streak of lean and fat order and
principally the varied conditions of the
offerings.
A few sales Of dry lot native steers
were made at Kansas City at steady
prices. ranging from $4.2O to s4.35,
which is considered very good figures
at this season, when so much soft
grass stuff from the Panhandle and
other southwestern districts are being
run in. The movement has been quite
heavy for July and shows a healthy
increase over the same time last year,
except in hogs, which have fallen off,
a condition which was anticipated by
the heavy dealers. In consequence the
market took a sudden jump that made
the shorts in the hog market very I'M
comfortable, and a further advance,
which may reasonably be expected,
will put them walking the floor, much
to the satisfaction of the farmers who
have been on its trail all winter and
early summer. hoping to find a turn
in the road where they could put on
the breaks and watch with pleasure
the efforts Of the spectators to push
him along.
The advance in our prime beef in
London last week was unexpected but
thankfully received by the exporters.
who have been cutting but little ice
Of late.
The London trade has opened up at
last and quite a lot of trading was
done at prices fully as good as usually
prevail at this season of the year. The
quantity of cattle offered the first part
ara = tnllllg as they do from small herds
and being very uneven, both in quality
and condition, could not reasonably be
expect to command the top of the
market like a nice, Ions string Of
evenly selected, well-bred range cattle.
During the long seige of low prices
that has prevailed among raisers Of
pure bred cattle the western range
men have had an opportunity which
they have fully taken advantage of
and stocked their ranches with we'll
bred bulls. The result is the very best
feeders are found in the country that
used to be stocked with the long
horned Texas scrub that was never
contended unless he was being pursued
by the festive cowboy on a buckIng
cayuse. So accustomed was this class
of cattle to being run by reckless
riders that their speed on the plains
was equal to that of the buffalo, and
the owners of late years were COM
PEELED to raise race horses in order to
round them up; but the intervention
of the barb wire cross" as the punch
er would term the fence, with that of
the pure-bre Short-horn and Hereford,
has made such a change that today we
find a shapely, quite well-developed
feeder much sought after by the prac-
teal farmer all over the principal
herding districts.
1t is now a settled fact that the
present corn crop through the western
states will be one of the largest ever
grown, and cattlemen should begin to
move their stock as soon as possible
and string them along as much as
possible so as to prevent a glut in
the markets. 1t looks now like money
would be hard to get to put in cattle,
and owners who are able to put them
out amongst farmers on time, with
good security, will be able to realize
much better prices than if sold on
the markets for cash. This arrange
good. responsible commission firm. 1t
is understood on good cattle SO a, head
more can be gotten when time is given,
which is certainly a handsome profit
and IS worth the shippers careful con-
sideration.
The movement of sheep has been
fairly good, offerings coming princi-
pally from Utah and Oregon, though
the quantity has not been so good as
in former years. Last season was
fully thirty days late and shippers
have begun moving freely that much
earlier this season, which makes sixty
days difference in the condition of
stock Soft offerings in some in
stances have sold very low. With this
and the low price of wool the average
sheepman has not much to be happy
over.
If more care was exercised by ship
pers in selecting sheep for the market,
and nothing but good killers sent, we
would have less complaints about poor
markets.
f. Metcalf, P. Anderson and Ounce
Crawford Of Manti went east yester-
day with the first train of sheep ever
shipped over the Sanpete Valleys new
broad gauge railroad. and was in
charge of superintendent Kerr, who
locked happy on the hind end of the
caboose as the trains moved off drawn
my one of his new Baldwin engines
Frank Siegel of the Siegel-Saunders
company, Kansas City, who has been
out in Nevada, the past week looking
over the future movements of cattle
from that section, is back at the COM
panys Office.
Billey Allyn of Omaha is said to be
stopping at the Cullen, but was not
visible He must have had business
elsewhere.
B. F. Saunders is still on the run
UP north with some good stuff.
J. c. Leary has returned from Lara
nnie. where he sold some Utah feeders.
All that could be gotten out OF him
when Intercepted was re plurTbus
unuan'' which he says literally means
Let the tail so with the hide"