The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-30

SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK, Jan. So.-Recelpts
of cattle this week have been the heaviest Of
the year and foot up close to 5000 head Or ooo
head more than were on sale last week with
week the market ruled fairly active at lily
steady prices with the high time OF Monday
of last week. but from that time to the close
of the week prices have been downward and the
market closes with very slow. dragging trade.
Values are generally 1o@15c lower on the best
grades of stockers and yearlings steers while the
common. fair and medium quality steers range
from l5c to 25c lower than Monday last. The
heifer market ruled higher early in the week, but
this advance has bene more than lost and prices
are no better than the low point of the close OF
The dealers bought literally, but owing to
falling off in the country demand, cold weather
more than the usual number of cattle in the
SPECTATORS division to be carried over the
condition The strictly good st9ckers sold thi:
500 @9oo-pound stters. ragged from So to $50
The e. best gearing steers changed hands at
$3.50 to $40 Common steers Of all weights
ers sold up to 1910 to $780, but the larger SHIRE
of the offerings ranged from So % to 81. so, via
the justfair grades from S1.7o to So. Steer
bulls sold from 1925 to $3.50, with fat bulls
The fat cattle market closes the week in a
very unsatisfactory condition and with a very
| dull trade. The advance Of 10@15c early in
gested car condition east has been the chief
!
been impossible to get beef or. live stock to
tas on Of s6s bad
but the bulk Of the offerings in cows and heif-
ers, comprising q fair to medium class Of cattle
S Sanse dr0 from aha
warmed up steers sold from So. 50@4.40. The
top Of s4.6o was paid for fairly good load
of 1,40O-pound steers.
%s Of the s hs %astss has
values close the week barely nickel lower than
the close Of asst. The quality has been running
to extremes and large percentage Of light
last week. The cold snap has hamDered the
marketing of hogs in the , country but with
looked for in the near future and corresponding
E 300; hogs; 1000. 90 y,
81 SO; 70, $50 lbs, $3.50; 50, 200 lbs, 81 80. "
Cattle-Dull and lower. Sales: 10 beeves,
cows. 500 lbs, $3.50; 10 cows $50 lbs, IS; cows,
IBIS Ss 70 M 5ae 1s
GO lbs, So; yesrlings. SO lbs, $3.50 AfAnSs
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK, Jan. so.-Cattle-
RECEIPTS 800, nominal; good to prime steers,
Es a9s fssdsts e0Es b as1t
HssRscs s11Esi to Ss5o 8 Monday ooo
shade lower; mixed and butchers, $4.so@5; good
! to choice heavy, $4.95@5.10; rough heavy, $40
@490; light, $4.5o@4.s5; bulk Of sales, $3.50
sheep Reeeiptz, 800; sheep. steady a;oa lambs
] fair to choice mixed, $3.50@4; western sheep,
/ $4@5.25; native lambs, $425@5,90; western
lambs 81 50@5.9o
Receipts. 500. including so5 Texans; market
steady; beef steers. $35O@5.5O; top for strictly
fancy: stockers and feeders. s2l5@4; COWS San; and
Texas steers Sc. S0l4.1O.
Hogs-Receipts, 1850; market steady to DC
lower: pigs and lights. .$4.35@4.65: packers.
81: 6o@4.e9; butchers and best heavy. s4.so@5.
ss7o Sss ;e: ianbs s9.75@s-7o ~ 1i'e'
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK, JAM SO-Cat-
tle-Recepts 500 including 80 southerns; market
i unchanged: native steers, So. 60@4.70; southern
steers, saga; southern cows, $2@2.70; native
i HogseReeepts, 5000; market steady to low
er; heavy, s4s5@5: packers. $4.75@4.so; pigs
and lights, $4.25@475.
sheep-Receipts none; market nominally
steady; sheep. $2.50@450; lambs, $4.5o@5.75.
4 SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK, Jan. so-Cat-
steers, $250@5; cows and heifers, $2.70@3.6o;
stockers and feeders So. 5O@3. S.
Hogs.Re s 800; n market aE about steady
sheeer,-Re,:eipts, 200; market steady, sheep,
S2.5O@5.l0; lambs, $4.5o@5.So.
sugar--Raw, quiet; fair refining, ? is.1ec; cen.
trifugal, 9e test. 9 l6-l6c: molasses sugar,
No. Rio, s 1516c. Molasses--Firm; New Or.
leans, 31037c.
NEW YORK OIL, Jan. ao-petroleum-
Steady; refined all ports, $9-O5@91 10.
NEW YORK LEAD AND COPPER, Jan. 3d.
Lead and Copper-Quiet and unchanged.