The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-24

consonat with the highest ideal OF warm
welcome and earnest endeaVor 10 enter
tain. AS a matter Of fact the big Dold
nlant was not on dress parade the past
weak the marked and noted cleanliness
and order and discipline being an every
day condition, but so unexpected by many
of the out of town visitors as to elicit
from them repeated comments OF sur
prise and agreeable commentator. Fully
1900 people called yesterday and were
shown all through.
cal plant Of the Jacob Dold Packing COM
pany returned yesterday after three weeks
absence in the east
Today will probably be light in point
of hog receipts but the week shows up
very well with one day out, and 1t is
hoped and expected that the next week
will show increased receipts.
he Drovers Telegram of Thursday says
that hogs are about dime lower than
week ago. and that good pigs were
that day as high as choice 300 pound hogs.
On Monday of this week at Buffalo,
packers and butchers were fair buyers Of
hogs. taking in all 6,l41 head. These were
distributed in all among seven different
purchasing interests, the Jacob Dold
Packing company taking 2,4sO OF this
number, or nearly half Of the entire list
Chicago hogs averaged 2s4 lbs last week.
Al lbs heavier than a year ago.
Average weight Of hogs at Sioux City
last week was 2s7 lbs. Total receipts last
wee kwere $500 head. 800 in excess of a
year ago.
The average weight Of hogs the past
week, that ending September q, at Kan
sas City, was 222 lbs. 9 heavier than the
previous week and heavier than a year
ago
Last week Indianap polls received 5000
hogs, 16, 600 more than year ago. For
1898 TO date the total is 1,097, 300, a gain
of 272, 100.
Chicago is getting a good many young
pigs which are being sacrificed. The lit
tie fellows declined SOC from Thursday
to Saturday.
One live stock contemporary very truth
fully says: Common little pigs at mar
ket these days haven't any excuse for
being on the earth"
Drovers' Telegram: Col. J. G. Mccoy
inspector for Kansas, says that the ap-
pearance of the cattle which he is in
speeding for shipment back to Kansas
indicates that the maporty of them are
being purchased for roughing instead of
feeding. This tallies with reports from
many feeders that there will be more cat
tie roughed than usual and fewer fed"
Says a Chicago authority: The provis-
ion Spectator is in a quandary between
a remarkable cash demand and very
heavy hog receipts The anxiety over
yellow fever and the absence of the out
siders have been declining the market of
late against the bull. There has been
long decline. Prices are on a low basis.
That tit is q hard market TO guess is
shown by the division into sides. Usu-
ally 1t is the insider against the outsider
in the pit. That is not the situation now.
The outsider is not in the market at all,
and the controversy over prices is be-
tween the different packers. There Is no
question as to the bear leadership. The
Cudahys are the believers in cheap hogs
and lower-priced product The important
bull interest Is the group OF English pack
ers, the International and the Continen-
tai. It is assumed that Swift's is rather
bullish. The Anglo-American is of the
same mind. No one knows just what the
Armour attitude is, but it looks as if he
had recently gotten off the short side.
The Englishmen have their lard bought
cheap. They are not sweating under an
old load or a mean loss, but they are
practically fresh bulls on the market. The
shorts are getting the benefit of quite
acute fears over the yellow fever situa
tion. The corn decline has also been
against provisions.