The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-29
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
SHIPPERS AND NOTES

| L. B. Morledge & Co., Of Ponca City,
were on the market with car Of hogs,
which took a good fair price. They have
been at the yards with hogs several times
this week with stock.
| Popplewell & Short of Rome were IN with
t. car of fair hogs, which. with the rest of
! the days offerings, went to Dold.
Pat. Mckinley, the typical son Of Erin
from Freeport. was at the yards with hogs
and cattle. which were sold at once. He
! is a frequent shipper of late and has good
stock and gets good prices.
VIM. NJ. Wiley Of Sedgwick was present
with as fine a car load of hogs as have
seen these yards in some time. There
were so of them, and they averaged 251
pounds, and were plump, well fed He
topped the market last Saturday and has
done the same trick several times in the
past few weeks. He says he buys the
best he can find in the country and sends
them in without sorting. He says there
are lots Of hogs all around him. and many
good ones. He is always on the lookout
for the best and ships to this market. He
reports everything in fine condition in his
locality.
Chas. Osborne, hog buyer and stock man
of Eureka, was a visitor at the yards
yesterday. He reports all disease out of
that section and hogs looking we'll He is
an extensive dealer, and frequently has
business at the yards.
A L. Giileland shipped In a car load of
fair hogs from Hackney which sold early.
He is gathering up car lots from all that
section.
Harvey Grace, of Grace Bros. Cheney,
was at the yards with a car Of 80 head
of fair hogs, the second consignment this
week from this firm.
Joe Kirk, of the well-known stock grow
ing and buying firm of Horner & Kirk,
Kingman, was at the yards with a car
of hogs shipped in from Calista. This is
one of the large Kansas cattle firms and
in addition they buy and ship large guam
titles Of hogs to this market. They re-
ceived a good price for the lot yesterday.
Mr.. Kirk reports the crop Of marketable
hogs somewhat decimated by the heavy
shipments of late. Cattle, too, are are not
numerous, but some stockers are being
fed for the market.
J. F. Burchfield of Burchfield & Reneau,
of Waketa, 0. T, was among the late ar
rivals with two cars of fair hogs, grad
ing light He says, while his firm has
a wide scope of country to draw upon,
they are now thinning out the hog crop,
and not many are left. Cattle, too, are
not numerous, as the quarantine regula-
tons prevent picking up OF strays. Mr..
Burchfield is a brother of Col. Enoch
Burchfield, of the other big shipping firm
of urchfeld & Connell Of Anthony.
George Kennoyer of Leon was the last
arrival at the yards with car of medium
hogs.
The Dold Packing company shipments
yesterday were one car of lard to Kansas
City, one car of hams to Cincinnati, one
car Of fresh pork to Boston, and car Of
packing house products each to Louisville,
New Orleans and Waco Texas.
The roads doing the hauling business
yesterday were: The Santa Fe, s; Missouri
Pacific, 3, and Frisco, l.
Chicago looked for IS, 900 hogs yesterday,
and $1,000 were received.
Chicago stock yard and terminal inter
ests held a meeting recently and decided
to keep the $500 per car terminal charge
in force so long as the people would pay
it. The Interstate Commerce commission
pronounced half of it illegal a short time
ago, but a re-hearing of the case has been
applied for.
Col. II. l.. Taylor and Mr. George Consel
were visitors at the yards yesterday.