, 1904-03-31
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WEEKLY STOCK YARDS LETTER
South Omaha. Neb. March &c

growers ASSOCIATION, which will be
held Mt Rapid City. 5. d, April
II and for several days thereafter.
will be enlivened by the presence
of a great crowd of South Omaha
livestock lei A special train,
filled to the doors with representa-
tives Of probably every commits
sion firm and packing house at
South Omaha, will leave Omaha
in time to arrive and participate
in the festivities which have been
arranged in connection with the
convention.
But the South Omaha men will
not stop at visiting Rapid City
alone. They will traverse the en-
tire cattle territory of western
South Dakota as far north as Belle
Fourche. At that town a special
entertainment has been planned
for them and it is anticipated that
cattlemen from throughout the
territory will be present to greet
the South Omaha contingent.
The trip will he an opportunity
for the South Omaha men to be
come better acquainted with the
stock shippers of that territory,
and to enlighten them rs to the
advantages of shipping their stock
to South Omaha. rather than to
Chicago
An interesting fact in connec-
ton with top prices at Chicago
mas come to light through an ex-
posure in the Live Stock World
published at Chicago. Coming
from such an authority, the ex-
posure cannot be anything but
authentic. This is the way the
Live Stock World tells how top
prices on stock are faxed" by
Chicago commission men and a
certain market report published
in that city:
"One of the first missions of the
Live Stock World" says this pa
per. was to combat the practice
of a certain ancient market report
in printing top cattle and hog
sales that We're never made. In
the presence of several leading
buyers it's managing editor at
tempted to Justify the rotten Gus
tom OF selling two loads of cattle
at the same price and then mark
ing me load say, 10c lower and
the other Zoe higher than it sold,
in order to establish a high top
Years ago the same authority was
requested not to publish a sale of
cattle. made at So. 80, but having
heard that the cattle sold at So it
took it for granted that a high
sale was being kept under cover
So printed an entirely false sale at
So.
Now it is at lis old tricks.
Monday, the top of the hog
market was $40, but this same
most reliable authority, having
heard that hogs sold at $40,
faxed a sale at hat price"
A comparison of Chicago and
Omaha prices actually received
will show any stock raiser that
Chicago prices prevail in South
Omaha and the extra distance and
time is saved.
Concerning market conditions
at South Omaha the past week,
James G. Dahlman, president of
the American Commission Co,
says:
Cattle receipts are showing a
slight decline at all the market
centersu and prices have according
ly lifted a little. The fresh meat
market in the east is also improv-
ing and this has added to the bet
terment of price conditions. Light
medium steers are fully 25c high
er: while stockers and feeders can
safely be quoted nj from S4.65 to
So. with fair to good at "a % to
81 80. Common, warmed up
classes range from 81 downwards.
The bull market is, however, very
unsatisfactory to the seller, the
bulk selling from $3.50 to S3.35.
The hog market has been very
uncertain, top hogs selling at $50,
A.