The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-10
HOGS TN LOVER
Heavy Receipts and Very
Fair Quality.
TOPS REMAIN AT $3.50
Cattle Steady--Fair Run, and
Quality Moderate.
TOPS REMAIN AT $3.50

The Wichita hog market yesterday wal
considerably more on a boom than for
some time past. The receipts swelled up
towards the last end OF the days trad
ing and showed a very respectable VOL
ume. The quality was in several Instan-
ces very good, two loads at least being
very choice and prime stock. The ruling
quotation for the day was about ten cents
lower. There were a few sales which
seemed to indicate range of 5g10 lower,
bllt the bulk showed generally ten lower.
There were hogs sold through the day at
$50 which on Monday would easily have
Jrought $780, quality considered; and
there was at least one load selling at
$S.6711 which the day previous would have
brought s3.75. The drop was entirely III
sympathy with all other live stock centers
which likewise reported a slump varying
from to 10 cents. The provision market
was in the main about steady, one line
breaking ~ cents and the other closing
up that amount. The trading on the local
market yesterday was active and live, the
increased receipts seeming to give new
Vigor TO the business done and instilling
tone and vim into the heretofore apathetic
conditions. Both the wagon trade and the
car stuff showed up in materially in
creased volume, both branches adding to
the receipts for the day. The wagon hogs
entered at the yards nearly approached
the 200 mark, and the cars yarded were
Is. Is of which were hogs and two cattle
The tops for the day were the same as
the tops for the day previous, but the
top load yesterday was very much the
best Of any selling at that price Monday
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this figure. ranging in weight from 1873
to 232 pounds. The load which took the
top price yesterday weighed 26S pounds
and was in every sense a choice lot of
well finished butcher hogs, running even
and plump an on Mondays market would
have taken 10 cents more. The next to top
load was one of PAP pounds selling with
out dockage or cutout early in the day and
on the reel the day previous would easily
have taken at least 1913. The bulk of the
sales for yesterday was $3.5593 20, and on
the day before was S3.60G3.7O, the bulk of
the hogs yesterday being of superior
grade and quality to those on Monday.
The weight for yesterday was 230, while
on Monday it was only 213, and this is
significant in itself of the better tone of
the hogs received yesterday as compared
with Monday. The wagon run was great
more and stretched through all the fore
noon and most of the latter half of the
days trading. The first hogs in this
branch to cross the scales went at prices
running from $3.50 to $3.50 This range
prevailed for most of the wagon trade
the quality Of the latter being on the
whole good, some small lots being extra.
The first car load of hogs to be weighed
Up went at the top price which ruled up
to near the close, S3.6715, but was very
late topped by a load Of heavier hogs go
Ing at 21E cents better. Very few loads
were sorted yesterday, and the few that
were. received very good prices for the
lighter hogs and for the better portion the
best bids in consonance with the ruling
quotations of other points Pigs and
lights were readily disposed of TO outside
Spectators. the local packing interest TAX
ing all the rest. It has been repeatedly !
declared that the run of late has been
far too light to anywhere near supply the
local demand, and yesterdays increased
offerings served to prove that this is true |
The supply for the past week has not been |
sufficient 10 meet this local demand, and
yesterday, with greatly increased vol !
ume, the demand was just as firm, the
Dold Packing company taking everything /
offered. The shipping demand was prin-
cipally for light hogs on the Montana or
der and all of this grade were promptly /
taken, and at stiff prices. The day closed |
with affairs very satisfactory to shippers
and sellers. the call absorbing the offer
ings very easily: