The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-09
which readily took the top of 1910, and

which readily took the top of 1910. and
were good. well selected hogs
Whitmer & Burchinal OF Nardin. o. IT,
were on the marker for the second time
! his week with car of lights, which sold
up among the top Of the bulk Of the days
sales.
JEFF Huston OF Ponca City shipped up
a car Of light weights on the early mar
ket
Harvey Grace was at the yards again
yesterday with the two best loads for the
day. ;hey easily taking the top price Of
S3.Ie- One was straight load of l0i, with
OFT dock. and The other a fine lot OF SO
averaging 23?, both loads going to DoiG.
| These cars and the Hannigan .ot were by
/ Ear the best offered on the market for
| the day. ali running close together in
weight and quality.
The roads doing the hauling yesterday
were as follows: Santa Fe. Il; Rock IS
land. 3. and Kansas Midland. /
Jim Burton had a gang Of men at work
on the east scale court Of the yards all
last night. putting down the new vi:rifed
brick pavement. The west end IS finish
/ ed and with the other side completed,
| this will make much needed improve
! ment. and one that has been so well man
| aged in its construction that little an
! noyance has resulted to the business Of
/ The yards.
! Most OF the regular shippers report a
/ large crop OF young hogs throughout the
country. and with plenty of feed the com
ing season viii witness a large volume
/ of well-fed. marketable hogs for this
point
Chicago estimates for today, 1900 hogs.
I S1YnArip NJ.
peka on business.
Chicago dealers and operators have ar
/ rived at the conclusion that they receiv-
ed a good many OF their June hogs In
May this year. and the abnormal rush the
latter part Of last month, and the sud-
den and abrupt falling off so far this
month would seem to sustain their the
ory. This theory by the way, may apply
70 several other western points.
From the DrOvers' Telegram of Mon
day: Hog receipts al Chicago were TO-
900 below the estimate, and were moder-
ate elsewhere. 1t looks like pl DIVISIONS
are sympathizing with wheat and corn"
From the Drovers Telegram of Tuesday:
Hogs continue to slide down Today
they were lowest since April. Since the
high time on May II. (s4.35d4.55 for bullI)
they have declined about Soc.
At ClA4dHd AdSl week lOCdl kllIeIS DOuRnL
9,40O cattle, 1850 hogs and 74OO sheep.
Chicago dealers are guessing 40, 900 to
100 900 hogs for this week
A year ago this week Chicago had ST.
900 cattle and 166, 700 hogs.
Hogs at Chicago last week averaged 233
pounds; year ago, 23S
Packers at Chicago last week bought
10000 hogs, against 136, 700 the same week
last year.
indianapolis last week had &c, 200 hogs,
1900 more than a year ago.
Chicago last week had 2,750 Texas cattle,
against 400 a year ago.
Fairbanks statement made the worlds
stock of lard 1913 900 tierces, compared with
10000 tierces Nay and $4,000 tierces
June I, 1897. All the increase during May
was af1oat. In spite of the enormous
movement from America, the consump-
ton in Europe brought about a decrease
in its stock of 1000 tierces for the month.
Average receipts of quarantine cattle
a st. Louis during the past ten weeks
were 13S cars. Average during same ten
weeks a year ago, 1879 cars.
During the first five months of the past
eight years the average combined total
of hog receipts at Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Omaha amounted to 56SS. 900
head, and the largest total was 6 733, 33SS
head received during the five months just
past, the number exceeding the general
average by LOS, 1898 head.
Last week at Chicago, receipts were:
a., 721 cattle, 131, 100 hogs and 81, 532 sheep.
Last week at Kansas City receipts were:
23,927 cattle, 81, $50 hogs and 14,114 sheep.
Last week at Omaha receipts were: r.
927 cattle. 95O0S hogs and II, 453 sheep.
During the first five months of the past
eight years the highest combined total of
cattle receipts at Chicago, st. Louis. Kan
sas City and Omaha was 1854, 300 head,
and the eight year average for the period
was 2,111,5O0 head. The receipts for the
five months just passed amounted to p
1560O9 head, or 1850 head above the av-
erage.
During this week year ago National
Stock Yards receipts were 1882 cattle.
2707O hogs. a. 45 sheep, and CS3 horses and
mules.
Cattle yesterday or the local market
were scarce, the following being the sales:
One Gamer, 90 pounds, at $3.50 per cwt.
One Gamer, $50 pounds, at 1925. One bull.
1910 pounds. at $500, and one COW, Il60
pounds at $3.50.