The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-09
BEEF MARKET.
Beef Promises to be Beef Before
Spring.

Beef Promises to be Beef Before
Spring.
The San Francisco Can contains the
following:
That there will be a great rise in the
price of meats within the next two
months seems to be the universal opin-
ion of the wholesale butchers of San
Francisco.
Beef has been steadily advancing for
the past few months and is now from Il
cent and a half to two cents per pound
higher than it was at this time last
year. The meat men say that it will
continue to go higher and that the
prospect is that it will be higher by
January lst than ii has been for fifteen
years.
This will be good news for the stock
grower, who for several years has been
selling his cattle at Il loss. Australia
has but recently recovered from n OF
her periodical drcughts, and as a ship
per OF cattle or sheep is practically out
OF the foreign competition. This has
caused an increased demand for Amer
lean cattle, and eastern buyers are pay
ing higher prices for feeders than has
formerly been paid for beef cattle. East
ern buyers have gone through Califor-
mia, Nevada and Oregon and bought or
contracted for by fer, the larger pro-
portion of cattlo for winter use.
Said ii. representative Of Horn q
j Judge, wholesale butchers. recently:
Last year eastern buyers took over
POO, 900 head from Southern Oregon and
Northern California and G5, 600 head
from Nevada. This year they have
shipped between 10. 600 and 80, 600 head.
All the stock cattle which should have
been fattened for this market have
been taken east and fattened in the
corn States, where crops have been
abundant. The scarcity Of beef will
have a tendency 10 make people eat
more OF other meats and wIl have Il
tendency to raise the price of all dOmes-
tic food animals.
Sam e. Hammond of Hammond &
Brod expresses that prime cuts of beef
would be selling from p to 30 cents per
pound before the winter is over. Said
he: "Bcef has been extremely low for
the past two or threeyears-lower than
it has been for fifteen yeurs-until it
got to such a figure that it has not paid
the cost of production. Beef was sell
ing a year ago for / and y cents for
good quality: o 1t is Is and 81 cents
per pound. The consequence Of these
low prices has been thata great many
of the weaker cattlemen have either
sold out or been forced out of the bust
ness.
'"Ihote are SCISSORS for beef, Just as
there are for apples and grapes. Ore
| ron A livnno md kDuo1o 80, r,,n-4l.
grazing lands of California. In Cali.
fornia the first cattle commence coming
in some time in May and they stay un.
til September. Along in the fall Oregon
cattle are marketed and they last until
Christmas. From Christmas unit
May again practically the only source
of supply is Nevada. Now in the east
the price of corn has ruled exceedingly
low and beef has increased il value to
such an extent that it has been poss.
ible for eastern men to come out here
and buy our beef, get special rates from
the railroads and take them back tc
Kansas, Nebraskaand othercorn States
put corn into them and sell them at a
profit. A range steer will increase from
200 to 400 pounds after being fed for six
months or a year back there, and as
beef is now selling in the eastern mark
cts for from 81 to 8! cents a pound, ii
is not difficult to see where the profit
comes in.
California cattle are practically ex-
hausted; Oregon has had a short crop
and the result is that beef is and will be
higher than it has for years. OF course
this means a revival of the stock-rais-
ing industry. 1t is a great thing for
the cattlemen and will be of benefit to
the sheepmen as well, for people will
have to eat mutton if they can't afford
beef
Reports from Nevada indicate that
the cattle shipments are the largest for
years, and those who have cattle left
are holding them in anticipation of
higher prices. Buyers are Offering 6
cents, and are unable to secure many
cattle at that price.
The people of San Francisco will have
to pay dearly for their Christmas beef,
and many appetites that have been ac-
customed to porterhouse and prime
rib will have to be satisfied with coarser
portions of the bullock.