Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-02
Flagstaff Man Gets Top Price For
 Lambs
Sells 1050 At Kansas City At Rate of
 $7.10

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 2S (Spe- ciaD The break in cattle prices last week had the effect of reducing the supply this week about one half, and this has helped prices 10 to 25 cents, most on corn fed cattle. Packers claim that grass cattle are yet too green to produce beef that will satis- factorily sell, and straight grass stuff is shaded more or less in the buying.
 Stockers and feeders closed last week bad, but more buyers have appeared this week, with better business and higher prices as result. A good deal of range stuff was here Monday, in- cluding several shipments from the mountain country in Colorado.
 The Wilson Old Mexicos, 1147 ID, sold at $3.6O, rector steers, 1893 to 117O ID. at $9.4O, one load, 11s9, at $3.75. The supply from the Panhandle this week has embraced all varieties, including a good many veal calves, at $5 to $50.
 Grass cows have sold at $2.15 to 1925, with a few extra good ones at $2.S5, canners $1.75 to $2.1O, bulls $2.10 to $2.5O, few stags up to $3.25, quite string of 76O ID stockers at $2.75. Some good Colorado feeders, 1885 lb., sold at $3.65 yesterday.
 The sheep and lamb market is 50 to 60 cents lower than it was a week ago, on account of bad conditions of the mutton market east. Receipts this week have been fairly liberal, but this is not the main reason for lower prices, as traders contend that the market has been held up too high for some time, and this break was expect ed. Some dealers even predict still further reductions in prices. The sup ply this week has contained stuff from all parts of the range country, Ariz- ona yearlings 95 ID. at $5.15, mixed sheep 95 ID, at 5, 9Slb. wethers, at $4.50, S4 ID. mixed ewes and weth CTS at $4.15, 66lb. spring lambs at $6, New Mexico wethers 96lb. at $4.65. A string of Utah wethers sold today at $4.35, 1O1lb., three loads of feeders out of the shipment, 90lb., at $4.15. Or ders for large numbers of feeding and stock sheep are held here, with small chance of filling them, it seems.
 H. c. Rockett, of Flagstaff, Arizona, an old-time sheepman of that territory, where he has lived for 24 years, wore large smile yesterday when he sold 1,O5O lambs that averaged 60 lbs. at $710.
 "I never expected to get any such price for these lambs," said MT. Rock ett. "Like all the Arizona lambs that have been marketed here, these were fat and of good quality. MT. Rockett winters his fiocks down in the valleys and clips in February. He then starts back to the mountains, where he spends the summer months in the high attitudes. 'In all the years that I have spent in Arizona," said Mir. Roekett, "this has been the most prosperous. The sheepmen are all living on easy street now, having had the best year in the history of the sheep business in the territory. When the sheepman can sell four months old lamb at $4, and get s for the fleeces of wool from the eve, there is big money in it. And that is just what we have been doing out there. So far as the sale of lambs are con- cerned this fall, they will be sold pro- vided the price keeps up. But should the price go down then the sheepmen will hold to them. They have plenty of feed, and will be in a condition to hold them. There is scarcity of sheep, and big demand for wool, and these conditions are in favor of the sheepmen. Kansas City has had more than her share of the Arizona sheep this summer, and all who have shipped here have been well pleased"
 E. P. Grover of Flagstaff, Ariz., who has had in several shipments of sheep and lambs during the past few weeks, was on today's market with two car loads of 65 ID. lambs that sold for $6.SO.