The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-30
LIVE STOCK MARKETS
CHICAGO.

| Chicago, March 29.-Cattle-The demand
| for cattle today was not any better than
| it usually is on Tuesday But offerings
were small and usually steady at Mon
! days quotations. Sales were mostly be-
low $500, fed Texans selling at So. 90d4. 50
! for steers, and S3.00d4.00 for bulls, oxen
and cows. The stocker and feeder trade
was fairly active at $3.S564S5 for choice
and common offerings and canning COWS
were firm at $2.50G3o0 with butchering
COWS and heifers in strong demand at
$3.10g465. Bulls sold at S26Od4G0, and
stays and oxen brought 8. 2504G0. Calves
were in large supply and in the usual &C
tive demand at 81. 00G6.75 for poor to prime
with sales chiefly at $6.0gQ6.60.
Hogs-There was an active demand for
hogs from Chicago packers and eastern
shippers bought choice hogs with fair free
dom, prices ruling san cents higher than
yesterday. Hogs sold all the way from
SS.8oa3.o2l2; the bulk Of the sales being
at 2.S0q590, while pigs sold largely at
S5.30q3,%. The late market was weak
/ and quotations early were hard to get
Sheep-Trade in sheep and lambs was
active and yesterdays late advance Of %
cents in good fat lambs was more than
sustained. Lambs sold at s435G500 for
shorn, and at $5.25QG.O0 for unshorn foclls
Colorados going chiefly at $5.S5a6.G0.
Sheep were in excellent demand at So. -
Q4S0, with sales chiefly at S425Q470; fed
westerns, and shorn lots brought $3.50
40. Yearling sheep sold at $4.5gG5.1O.
Keceipts-Cattle, $500; hogs, 1900;
sheep, 1900.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, March -Cattle-Receipts
1880 Prices were steady to 10 cents low
er, the poorest dressed beef grades bring
ing SS.504425, and choice shipping steers
selling at S465q5.0712. Cows and heifers,
largely steady, though some sold 10 cents
lower; cows sold at wide range, from
$2.00d4.40, and heifers brought 3.50g4 30.
Stockers and feeders sold at $3.50d5.10,
values being 20 to 80 cents lower than a
week ago. Fed western steers. $3.7094.90;
COWS. 49, O003.5O.
Hogs-The market was active and
steady to cents higher. Sales were
largely at sS.6569.65, and the top price
was S3721a. Heavies and packers, s3.60q
3.7212; mixed, SS.50U3.70; lights, S3.40Q36O
pigs, $3.2Jd3.55. Receipts IA, 600.
Sheep-Sheep and lambs were TO 10c
higher. Lambs sold largely at $5.00Q5 50,
and a small bunch OF natives brought
$3.O0. Same fancy muttons sold at SAFE,
and the bulk changed hands at 81. 001450.
Receipts, 1900. 5|GgyE
Representative sales: Texas steers, IS
head, averaging 1l47 pounds, $3.50; Texas
COWS, Is head averaging 706 pounds, 50. 20;
native steers, Is head averaging 1853
pounds, 5.25; native cows and heifers, %
head, averaging 1860 pounds, $4.45; stock
ers and feeders, IS head. avera aging 566
pounds, $780, bulls, "a head, averaging 537
pounds, $4.75
ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, March Notwithstanding
/ 100, including 500 Texans. Market steady
to strong. Native shipping steers, 81.
$3.50; light dressed beef and butcher
steers. $3.70d4S5; stockers and feeders,
$3.90Q47O; cows and heifers, 81 50Q4.50;
Texas and Indian steers, 3.25Q475; COWS
and heifers. 81 40d3.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 400 Market cents
higher. Workers, $3.7oa3. so; packers. So. 10
Q3S5; butchers, $3.S5d3.90.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; market strong.
Native muttons, $425q475; LAMBS, $3.50
5.75.