The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-17
LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS
CATTLE QUIET AND WITHOUT Quo-
TABLE CHANGE IN PRICES.
Light Grades of Hogs Active and
H~igher-Sheep Quiet aud steady
Condition of Other
UNION sTocKYARDs. INpIANAPoLIs.

UNION STOCKYARDS, INDIANAPOLIS.
Sept. 15.-Cattle-Receipts. $50; shipments,
small. There were not many fresh ar
rivals of cattle. but quite a number OF
odds and ends of the inferior class were
carried over from yesterday. and the sup
ply on sale was above the average at
this time in the week. All the offerings
that met the requirements of buyers in
quality and flesh sold usually on a basis
of about yesterdays prices. but the re-
quest for other kinds was no better, and
few sales were reported. The receipts for
the week exhibit an increase of 40 over
last week and zoo over the same week a
year ago. Thus far this year there is a
decrease of less thar 500 compared with
the same period last year. The general
market this week, compared with other
places, has been. for the most part, salts
factory to statesmen and owners, but after
the opening values were hardly as high
as at the close of last week. The change.
however, was due more to the difference
in the quality of the offerings than TO any
weakness in the market. Statesmen had TO
contend with an unusually large number of
common, thin cattle that were hardly
suitable for feeders, and, of course. could
not be used by butchers. Bids were so
much below the expectations of owners
that they We're slow in transferring their
holdings, and the close of the week found
quite a number of the inferior cattle In
the pens unsold. In the steer line there
was not a strictly fancy load of dressed
beef cattle represented during the week.
and therefore the full strength of the mar
ket was not shown by representative sales.
Quite a number of fat, but plain cattle
were offered, which at the beginning Of
the week brought firm prices. but toward
the close buyers forced a decline of from
5Q10c. During the week native steers sold
as high as $50, Westerns s4.60. and Tex
ans s405. The market for the best cows
and heifers did not show quotable change,
but thin stock were as hard to sell and
prices were as unsatisfactory as they nave
been at any time recently The best heifers
during the week sold as high as IS, cows
"a so, bulls $3.S5. and calves 81. Quotations.:
Good to prime steers, 1850 lbs
and upward .5OQ $50
Fair to medium steers, 1850 lbs
and upward .................... $50 $50
Good to choice 1,150 to 1,300-lb
steers 5.OOa $50
Fair to medium 1,150 to 1,300-lb
steers 4.e50 $50
Medium to good 900 to 1,000-lb
steers 1900 500
Good to choice feeding steers...... 4.5Om 4.75
Fair to medium feeding steers. 4.15Q 4.40
| Common to good stockers. ........ $3.50 AS
Good to choice heifers Asa Ass
Fair to medium heifers $500 4.10
| Common light heifers ............ 5000 $50
Good, to choice cows .............. 3.75G 4.40
Fair to medium cows ...-.......... 3.10a 800
| Common old cows .............. LOCO 800
Veal calves 5.006 zoo
| Heavy calves 325q SIS
Prime to fancy export bulls...... $500 AS
| Good to choice butcher bulls. $500 3.75
Common to fair ulls.............. 2.50G 3.25
Good to choice cows and calves. 80. 40. 90
Common to medium cows and
/ calves .s..........-..-. -. l0.UVI %. w