Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-07-12
Sensational Values In
Kansas City
Market
Grower Says
That Proper Feed
Is Scarce

KANSAS CITY, No, July S-A
pretty good run of cattle receipts was
expected today, and liberal receipts
this morning were The rule at all the
markets. Prices have been on the
upturn for ten days or two weeks,
making sharp advance Monday of
this stock, but buyers had the best of
it today, and took portion of the
late gains Heavy beef steers suf-
fered most today, as packers can
handle only a few of this class at this
season. while they can take care of
almost any number of lighter weight
steers. Fortunately, most of the stuff
now is light weight, largely grass stuff,
and the decline today really affected
less than half the receipts. Quarantine
cattle sold steady today, and light
weight natives steady to 10 lower.
There is a larger number of stoekers
and feeders today, this branch of the
trade will, no doubt, show steady i'm
provement, both in bulk of business
and in the tone of the market from this
time forward. Some of the Riley
Leonard Colorado steers sold at $3.50
Monday, against $4.35 to $3.50 last
week. same stuff, around 100 lbs. De
sirable range feeders sell at $3.50 to
1925, Panhandle stockers at 1885 to
1925, veal calves, $3.50 to 1925, bulls
$3.50 to $3.50.
The sheep market is about all that
could be desired, ssIes bordering on
the sensational being made nearly ev-
cry day Twelve double ears of Ari-
iona wethers, 90 h., sold straight Mon
day at 1925, and another string of the
same stuff at $3.50 today These prices
are 80 to 40 cents above any previous
prices this session. No Western
sheep have been here since the $40
drove last week. since when the mar
KIT has advanced 80 to so cents Spring
lambs sold at $40 today, another re-
cord price for this season. Receipts
are heavier than a year ago, but the
demand improves every year, as the
consumption in the large cities is grow
ing wonderfully all the time. Com
mission men here stand ready to buy
large numbers of farm animals as soon
as they appear on the market.
Shippers of sheep from Arizona say
that they are having difficulty in find
ing fattening stuff, and will have to
depend this next year on what they
raise themselves.
"Sheep are getting scarcer all the
time, - said L. D. Yeager, of the firm
of L. D. & H. Yeager, of Flagstaff,
Ariz.. this morning. 1.-The wethers
bought two years ago have been carried
over these two years, and now we don It
know where we can get more to feed.
Nobody can buy the stuff from us now.
We are stocked up with ewes to the
limit of our permits, and these ewes
must supply us with lambs to fatten
/ for the market The famine in fat
tening stuff seems to extend over most
of the sheep country
''Just as an indication of the short
age in the supply of sheep, there's the
instance of the commission men who
made two commissions of lot of
lambs before they were born. He
bought them for fall delivery, and sold
them again before they had been
born.
Mr.. Yeager said that Arizona wethers
were about all in. though there may yet
be shipments OF lambs.
Sehuster Bros. of Holbrook, Arizona,
who have had several thousand heads
of good wethers on this market this
week made a sale today of ten car
loads of the same kind that brought
$3.50 nickle higher than the same
stuff sold at yesterday
E. P. Grover of Flagstaff, Arizona,
had in yesterday four carloads of
grass wethers that averaged 80 lbs to
heavier, and bring $Ls5.