The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-10
MYSTERIES
MARKED CLOSING HOUR AT
STOCK YARDS YESTERDAY
Mexico. Armour and bold Run Top
Hogs Up to $500 Ia

Yesterday was piping time in the hog
division Of the Wichita Union stock
Yards. For the past three weeks the re-
celpts Of both hogs and cattle have been
stimulated by the high prices being paid,
and the daily offerings of both these have
been unusually heavy. Steadily without
any sympathy" reflection from other
livestock centers. this market has elmo
Cd upward, each week. and in fact sew
eraI days of each week, the market quo
taEOns registering a fresh recOrd-break-
ing mark it was thought a fancy price
when New Years day a car load Of
only medium weight hogs from Oklahoma
landed on the $40 top mark, the first
time hogs had sold here for that price
since May Is, 1850 with only one excep-
ton. on one Of the carnival fair days Of
last fan, but this exhiiirating pace had
been set, and in two days. S4s5 had been
reached. Then on Saturday last. the s.
mark was reached by a bunch of very
choice prime wagon hogs and one car
load of hogs from oxford, Kansas, which
averaged 255 pounds ia weight This nigh
water mark was maintained steadily I'M
til yesterday when a car of 2-5 pound
hogs Of very fine grade brought&5.02 IL
and they had been contracted for on wired
advices of quality. This price stood as the
tops until toward the close, most Of the
rest of the days offerings going at s..
Just when an unexpected rush of receipts
commenced to pour in late on the trading,
Old Mexico with a big order 10y Norris,
Butts & Co, Of Kansas City. Major A. W.
Anderson. Wichita buyer. jumped into the
arena after some Of these belated ART
walls. and then Mexico. backed by Major
Anderson The Armour Packing company
with Mr.. Deck Parsons, and the Jacob
Dold Packing company by Mr.. win J.
Wallace, mixed up together in the frantic
rush for the hogs and the last hour Of
the hog trading was among the sensa-
tionaI ones for some time past, with the
very satisfactory result to the shippers,
that top hogs had sored UP to 500 u
with two cars of extra fine grade, choice
prime fat butcher hogs taking the top
plum These two cars were Of the med
ium lightweight Of 21S pounds and the
medium heayy-grade of 239 pounds They
We're Scratch sales and other hogs Of
nearly as good quality sold lower, but the
active demand. the stern unrelaxing de-
termination of the several buyers TO Sc
cure these hogs. together with the re-
sultant vigorous competition. set up the
prices on the close TO this pinnacle notch.
All day the market had been a strong
ten cents higher and this tone and quo
tation ruled through most Of the trading
but the last spasm made the quotable
market even stronger, and the interest
ing feature Of it all is, and significant
and suggestive fact for shippers for south
western Kansas and Oklahoma to con-
sider is that their interests were aug
ment very materially as evidenced in the
fact that Chicago reported only five cents
CHER. ST. Louis the same; and Kansas
city weaker yet on split Of strong to
FIVE cents higher" Comparisons may he .
odious, they certainly are with other
markets when compared with this one +
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