Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-17
WESTERN MARKET LETTER.
specIal correspondence

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Kansas City, Mo, Nov n--Taken all
around, last weeks cattle market was
more satisfactory to range men than to
shippers from the native territory.
Packers bid 10 to 25 lower for corn fed
steers after Tuesday, but good grass
steers held up fully steady all week
ana closed strong. Several good slaed
shipments Of Colorado steers were re-
ceiyed, the Montgomery Land q Cattle
company's shipment OF about 400 head
being about the largest These steers
weighed ,0s5 pounds, and brought $500
and 81 GO, some 92b pound COWS In same
shipment sold az $3.50. The top for
Colorado's for the week was $3.50, and
Panhandle 81 and Is ranged from 1913
to $3.50, Panhandle grass COWS sold at
S2.3j 10 S2.15, and all Gamers gained %
cents during the week. The advance
ON the stuff was 20 to 20 cents, and
stookers and feeders also gained about
this much Good TO choice branded
feeders sold at S325 TO 1915, Some
choice heifer calves from Midland,
Texas, sold at 1895, and steer calves out
Of the same shipment brought $3.50.
Prices were highest at the end Of the
week Supply today Is 1900 head with
good representation from the Pan
handle country Grass cattle generally,
and stockers and feeders, are steady,
but Gamers and corn fed steers are
slow TO l0c lower.
Sheep advanced IS TO 20 cents last
week, lambs sold strong, and country
kinds Of sheep and lambs sold higher,
and at the best prices OF the season,
Rurs are lighter than customary at this
seaton. and markets active accordingly.
Fri es are strong today on a run Of
$50 head. Some SO pound western
western lambs at &c. 10, Western year.
llngs, o. pounds. right OF the grass,sold
at S4.6O today, and some wethers at
A,45. No ewes were here today, but
sales Of westerns have been around
81 90 lately and as high as N.l5, Thin
wethers and yearlings for the country
sell at $3.50 to 500, lambs $3.50, stock
ewes $3.50 10 1850
Charles Macarthur, regular ship
per TO this market from Grand juno
ton, Colo, was here last Saturday with
q string Of nine cars Of Utah sheep that
sold well, and Mr. Macarthur was salts
fed with his trip here. The sheep were
purchased IN the eastern part OF Utah
and shipped from Green river to this
market,
Mr.. Macarthur Is we'll posted on con-
ditions among the sheepmen there, and
makes frequent trips to that section
every fall Speaking OF the present
state OF the sheep industry In that par
tlcuar part Of the state he said THE
sheepmen are selling out their sheep
closer this fall than / have known them
TO for years. This 10 not necessary
with them, but Il Is a saying out there
that a sheepman IL quite a Jockey, or
In other words, he viii price his sheep
20 buyer any time, and II offered that
much he win sell II II takes al his
herd The range was good this year and
bigger pant OF the herd got In good
marketable condition so that this took
them out closer than usual ! don't
know when there have been more buy
ers for stock sheep coming I'm there
either Eastern Colorado especially
In the Rocky Ford and the sugar beet
district, has sent any number OF buy
ers there, and they have bought lots
OF sheep this year, they would Gull out
IN any other year. In this way the
shcepmen have sold out their herds
close There Is more than the usual
amount OF trading going on among the
local sheepmen, too. Good strings OF
ewes are changing hands there every
day, many OF the sheepmen selling out
their herds Of breeding ewes altogether
The cause Of this is probably the fact
that eastern buyers are there now con-
tracing the spring clip at So per pound
and some Of the breeders are trying TO
stock up heavily on good clipping
sheep. These same sheepmen are then
going TO New Mexico and Arizona and
buying strings Of ewes there and ship
ping 10 Utah TO make up herd again.
The Mexico sheep are I'm rather poor
condition, but they can stand our elm.
ate much better than you would think.
They are brought up there and crossed
with the Merino buck thus getting a
thick, close wooded animal, and one that
can stand any weather. The Callfor-
MIA sheep are the ones that lose for the
when brought TO our elm
ate for they cannot stand the storms.
outside Of these and the Rambouillet,
we have yet TO find the sheep that can
not stand the winters there. One new
conner tried 20 start IN with herd Of
$4,000 Of the latter breed one year and
had the bad luck to lose almost one.
third OF his flock, Since then they
have kept close 10 the kind we have
been using for years"
Mr. Macarthur says the sheepmen
here usually take their sheep TO west
arn and southern Colorado or to Neva-
la to winter and IN this way get good
'ange while also escaping the danger OF
blizzards Much OF the sheepman's
success depends on the move he mixes
In winter" he added III he goes
where the winter is mild and there is
sufficient moisture. he can almost safe |
y figure on a profit, but a bad start al
The beginning OF winter usually ends
'ather dsastrously for the herd and |
he hopes OF the owner"
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