The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-09
NEAR D FIVE LOVER
Receipts Good, and Quality
Very Ordinary
TOPS STILL AT $3.50
Cattle Scarce--QuaIity Fair
Market Steady.

Yesterday the local hog market ruled
weak TO cents lower, with an increased
volume Of receipts and quality very much
on the ordinary. the whole a-ggregat Of
ferings considered. Only g. wagon hogs
came into the yards and these were gen
orally lights. running into the very light.
or coarse heavies of unattractive grade
and selling mostly around S3.5o02. 60. and
a few closer to the $500 mark on the
opening of the days trading there were
about three loads in the pens for sale,
besides a small layout Of wagon stuff,
none of a quality anywhere near ap
preaching extra, and most of them com
mon, mixed and runty. Early sales. how
ever. went readily, and at prices not far
away from Tuesdays range. The first
reports from Kansas City appeared 10 in
dicate an active demand and prices
strong. but subsequent dispatches gave it
as steady to cents lower All other re-
ceiying points gave similar reports and
the local market sagged. with q percspti-
bic element OF weakness, but at no time
We're tn sales more than five cents lower,
while some other markets showed worse
than that. The top price for the day was
$50, same As yesterday, and three cars
We're sold at this figure, these being fair
TO good, and two of them good hogs.
These were by far the best of the offer
ings for the day, the rest Of the receipts
being below them in quality very notably,
and the top line of the range of the bulk
being below these top sales. Only one
load of fair mediums went at the next
point, $3.671k, while the rest of the bulk
went at prices unevenly scattered between
$50 and $685. Trade was active and the
most of the hogs received during the
day, as well as the few pens carried over,
were easily disposed of at the weak prices,
and at the close nothing was left unsold.
Dold was the main buyer for the best
of the offerings, taking two Of the three
top loads, and some Of the best Of the
bulk Woods bought also a few of the
later arrivals 10 complete a shipment on
eastern orders, and spectators took some
scattering lots for investment. The gen
eral quality for the day was common and
poor, only about three loads being at all
attractive. Several loads were sorted and
cut out the better grades going at all
the market would warrant, the light
lights and skips selling separately. There
were no choice hogs in at all, and it was
on the whole poor and undesirable pick
ing The universal weakness and lower
markets acted to cause a decline IN the
local business. Chicago looked for 2S,
O0O hogs yesterday. received 80, 600, against
q, 900 the day previous, and the market
ruled 21Ad5c lower. The St. Louis market
was 10 10c lower, with the same receipts
as the day previous, 5000. Outside de-
mand for provisions was sufficiently ac-
tive to hold prices steady for most Of the
session. but lard in the final outcome lost
2ls points and ribs the same. The ship
meuts yesterday of hogs bought on this
market on eastern orders were cars. Fol-
lowing are the daily comparisons: For
Yesterday: Tops, $40; bulk of sales, $3.50
G3.67i2; average weight, 222; receipts.
Loss For the day before Tuesday: Tops,
$40 same as Wednesday; bulk of sales,
$3.60G3.671a; average weight, 231; receipts,
20 For the same day last week: Tops,
si05: bulk Of sales, S3.S5d4O0; average
weight Dos; receipts, 1907. For the same
day last year: Tops, $3.O714; bulk of sales,
S2.0J03.O7la; average weight, 25S; receipts,
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