The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-06
PROVISIONS MARKET.
aIEEPPElss AND No rEs.

Stiner & Blair of Lyons had two car
loads Of hogs on the market yesterday.
Among the shippers who marketed yes
terday was VIM. Astle of Hanen.
House & Wolf OF Newton topped the
market yesterday with carload Of
Harvey county hogs.
Joe Kirk the well known stock ship
per Of Kingman was in with carload
Of hogs yesterday. Kingman is called a
wheat county, but it also has plenty Of
corn and hogs.
H. A. Probst of Bluff City, had load
OF pretty good hogs on the market yes
terday.
George stayton of Mayfield, had a car
lead CT p0rkers on the market yester-
Gay.
J B. Knn of Clearwater, never goes
back on the Wichita market, but ne sent
a carload of hogs to Kansas city yes
seroay after the demand was fully sup
pi here.
Dold's yard in front Of the packing
house IS Just a little more beautiful
than the yards In front OF any of the
ene residences in this city. There are
flowers and plants innumerable and a
large mound covered with eBrmuda
grass is in the center of the yard and in
the center of the mound is a fountain
and artificial pond.
Manager Fred Dold of the big Dold
packing house. went down to Oklahoma
on tn Roosevelt train and when he
came back last evening his face was
= wreathed in smiles He declared that
there were $4,000 oklahoma people In
Oklahoma City on the 9rd of July who
lived outside of the city. Mr.. Dold
thinks the people Of the territory are
among the best and most energetic IN
America. He says il is the people who
went there who are making Oklahoma
great There were threshing machines
on every hand" he said, land the most
contented and happy people ] ever seen
are in Oklahoma. Oklahoma IS one vast
checker board Of wheat, corn and cotton
felCs. The fine farm residence houses
arc the. checker men and the magnifl-
cent cities are the crowned kings. I
n Yer in al my life saw so many evil
dcrces of happiness and general pros
pcrty In any other country. Don't you
ever think for one moment that because
o. = homa is a new country that 1t is
htrd the times. oklahoma is not only
rigat up I'm the procession in the band
" ron, but she sits smiling on the seat
NTH the driver of the car OF progress"
There is no politics in the livestock
markets. but even the Drovers' Tele-
Ea,n publishes the cut Of the Kansas
CITY Greater Convention Hall
The Omaha packers last week han
hle5 81 go hogs lAS79 cattle and 1858
sheep. That beats Wichita.
Since the recent rains make II reason
hbIv sure that this section viii set a
good corn crop. the talk of making this
a market for feeders is being revived.
People who desire good grade cattle for
feeders viii come hsre 10 buy them IL
the ranchmen OF western Kansas Sill
send their feeders TO this market.
The average weight Of hogs az Sioux
City every year in June range from 24s
10 270 pounds The farmers Of southern
Kansas and oklahoma have learned that
boss pay better to sell them when they
sb Vi so pounds.
The Drovers' Telegram claims that
Rome OF the TammSny delegates were at
the Kansas City stock yards bright and
eariy last Tuesday morning looking for
q candidate for vice president
Speak king OF the recent heavy run az |
rattle and the way prices hold up under |
re same Eli Titus, general livestock /
Rcent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa /.
f. railway. said: II see no reason why I
rattle prices should take a slump or SCI 1
lower than last year. Up to the present 4
moment. prospects are without a faw IN 1
The entire corn belt, and with 49, kiud I
nf favorable conditions until the plant Is i
ripe the yield VIII be immense. and that (
means high prices and good demand for 1
Feeders. This fact alone. coupled with I
statements of almost all shippers from /
territory contiguous to this market. 70 /.
PIC effect that no surplus cattle viii be /
Sel5 through the summer, ard summer !
feedinr WIFI be light. would indicate no /
dro, N prices, but when We also taks-i
snto consideration the advices from ne
states-Montana Wyoming
ard the pakotas. that grass has been
6amared as we'll as wheat. it makes /
lower prices more Of sn imnrohabii-y
fewer fat cattleawnRlotto 4slQIfwann
than ever. All reports ] received from
that resion say the grass IS stunted,
and fewer fat cattle viii be sent 70 the
southern markets from there this year /
than usual -
] r. stodder Of Burden. Cowley coun-
~ an TUESDAY of this week sold II /