The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-11

loads for both depots and local trade. All
specialties are receiving a heavy trade Of
late, as re also the staple cuts, and all
the several departme- IS are kept busy to
fill regular daily or6,rs.
Colonel Jocelyn was a business caller at
the yards yesterday afternoon. later TAX
ing in the packing house.
The Missouri Pacific's big pile driver is
busy at work on the new bridge across
Several new bridges will be built. the
tinbers for which are already on the
ground.
Hogs and cattle were both light yes
terday npoint of receipts, there being
more buyers than stuff TO buy. Today IS
expected TO show up better record
Indianapolis Live Stock Journal for Sat
urday: This weeks receipts show a total
OF nearly 5000 hogs. over AGO cattle,
against 2S,167 hogs. 3,3o8 cattle last week;
1926 hogs and 2.s43 cattle the same week
year ago. and 25,552 hogs and 1914 cattle
the corresponding week. two years ago.
The cattle market was quoted steady to-
day and hogs sold lower.
Cincinnati Price Current: Some en-
largement in marketing of hogs is shown
for the past week, western killing reach
ing a total Of 800. o00 compared with $780,
coo two weeks ago. For corresponding
time last year the number was 30 600
compared with which there was an in
crease of 5000 the past week. From
March the total is u $50. 900, against TO-
$4,000 year ago-an increase of !. 755 900.
Prices have averaged and close about
cents per one hundred pounds lower than
the preceding week The quality is fair
70 good. There are some complaints Of
naladies in correspondence from ship
ming districts hr1f q c The her6G 2 re
maintaining full average conditions Of
health. What is termed the summer sea-
son will close with this month. with a
record which no one in the trade antici-
pated. The great and unprecedented num-
Der of hogs Killed last year was retard-
ed at the opening OF the present summer
season as not likely TO be largely exceed
ed-but the basis of supply appears to
have been larger than calculated. The
January report of the department of az
riculture suggested a moderate reduction
in supply Of swine in the United States
compared with the preceding year. but
western packing for the ten months from
January l TO November l will be fully Is
per cent greater in number than for the
corresponding period last year.
At Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha
the total stocks Of meats on October /
were 1873, 100000 pounds, compared with
244.O0,GCO month ago. and 175. 900. 900 a
year ago. The reduction the past month
at these points was 100000 pounds. the
reduction last year for corresponding per-
iod was 100000 pounds; the packing the
past month in all the west has been about
$4,000 hogs in excess of same time last
year. This implies that large distri-
button of product has been going onl
With the good movement of product
and leSSening supplies the market has de-
veloped something of an easier tendency
in values. This Is encouraging an in
creased business with foreign markets for
deliveries later on, there being little to
strengthen confidence in much II any de-
cline in prices for the winter months IN
comparison with the present position for
such deliveries. The weeks export clear
ances were liberal of both meats and
lard-notably so of the latter.