The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-21

supply this year the necessities of the
packing interests compelled the buy
ers to scour the most remote stock re-
gions in search of beef and mutton,
and territory that has hitherto been
considered as properly belonging to
San Francisco has not been free from
invasion. Prices have consequently
peen stiffened, greatly to the advantage
or stockmen. Money Is now plentiful
IN stock centers and all over the ranges,
not altogether because of enhanced
values, but more on account of the vol
ume Of sales effected
For the San Francisco market most
or the cattle secured in extreme North
ern California and Southeastern Ore
son is shipped from Siskiyou County
points. Edison rothers are steady ship
pers. from Gs -elle. The drought in
Southern California enabled them to
buy In San Luis Obispo 1000 head of
starving cattle. They also bought up
several large punches of cattle on the
Catalina Islands. This stock was
shipped by rail to Gazelle and turned
out on the well-watered Sskiyou
ranges. These bargains enabled them
10 turn on every marketable hoof on
their runs and yet have ample stock
Ior the succeeding season.
From Ager, Hornbrook and Montague
are shipped all Of the stock bought in
southeastern Oregon for the San Fran
cisco market. From one to five special
STOCK trains a week pass through this
city en- route to Sacramento and San
francisco. Considerable stock is also
shipped from Cottonwood and Red
Bluff.
In Modoc County Eastern buyers ship
cattle and sheep to the packing houses
by way of Reno and the Central route.
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beeyes brought $24 so each all round on
the range. This was in Big Valley.
On Butte Creek sales have been made
lately for $25 a head on the range. A
domestic buyer at Adm secured a bunch
OF 45O prime beeves at 4 to SIX cents.
A recent report from Modoc and Las
sen counties says that stockmen have
sold more cattle and sheep this year
than for seven years past, and from
present indications there are enough
buyers in the field to handle every mar
ketable hoof in both counties. Not
only are the regular foreign buyers
taking all they can contract for In the
way of beef and mutton. but local men
are buying for speculation.
While the cattle sales are the heav-
lest known in years and perhaps in
Volve a much larger sum in ready
money, yet the transactions In sheep
are far in excess, head for head, of cat
tie sales. Wool is on the move also.
A sale was made in Lake County, Ore
gon. on the 18th instant of 100000
pounds at 1885 cents.
During the past week $4,000 lambs
have been shipped from Halleck, Me-
vada, to Eastern points. The average
price paid was 81 80 on the range.
From Reno, including drives from. Ore
gon and from Modoc and Lassen coun-
ties, $4,000 lambs have been shipped to
the Swift and Armour packing houses
IN Chicago. The price, In this in
stance, ranged from 81 so to 81 s., de-
livered on the cars.
Montana sheepmen spent two weeks
on a buying expedition through Grant,
Cook and Gillian counties, Oregon, and
failed to secure single head of sheep,
Notwithstanding they offered the at
tractive price of 81 so per pair for ewes
and lambs
Red Bluff is becoming the head CEN
ter for sheep in Northern California
Sales for the current season have
reached the enormous total of 10000
head, at prices ranging for mutton
from 50 30 to 20 25. Lambs brought in
the neighborhood of 81 EACH These are
big prices when it is remembered that
up to within a couple of years ago
sheep could hardly be got rid of at half
the price.
AT Amadee. a railroad terminus In
Lassen County, the sheep market is
booming. Eastern buyers are taking
everything in sight at 81 30 per head.
From the 10th to the 18th instant P. L.
Flanagan, local buyer and an ex-
tensiye f1ockmaster, transferred to
packing house agents 40, 900 lambs.
The only bad speculation In livestock
that may be noted the present season
was the driving to- Nebraska of 600
head Of horses from Eastern Oregon.
The best offer received was less than
81 head.