The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-18

Good Business Is Done at Salt Lake
Stock Yards-Firm at
Close.
MUTTON Is RATHER WEAK
SPECTATORS CHARY ABOUT
BUYING EWES.

The weekly letter of the Western
Commission company of Salt Lake and
| Ogden, to its customers among the cat
4 tie and sheep feeders in Utah and
Idaho, contains the following comments
on the eastern live stock markets and
a partial record of local receipts and
shipments:
In keeping with Mondays record
since the year began, the run of cattle
on the big markets the first day of last
week was again very heavy suffi-
GENTLY so as to break prices for the
sellers good 10 cents in the hundred
pounds: and as the feed lot folks kept
showing bovines at the packers on the
River" in big patches again Tuesday,
statesmen were busy getting prices that
enabled them to report, steady with
Mondays close" This on westerns of
the best sort, both killing and feeding
kinds, and cattle of less merit caught
more punishment But lighter receipts
later in the week as well as an increase
of buying country folks at all the SELL
ing places, again strengthened values
and the close for the week was on a.
good demand for good westerners at
steady to strong figures.
The receipts for the year to date ap-
prOximate 100000 in excess of last years
total for the same period.
At present River prices, s435 to
S4.65, Utah feed-Iot steers, ought to be
selling at $3.50 to 1915. Holders are
generally asking. however, a quarter"
higher, and some sales to western kill
ers, Los Angeles, San BernardinO and
Seattle buyers, are reported at prices
between these figures.
No Advance on Sheep.
Notwithstanding the bullish advices
coming occasionally from the wool CEN
tiers on the krinkly commodity, and the
unchanging complaint of some of the
River markets that the mutton receipts
continue skinny for local killing de-
mands, there is no advance to report
in the selling price of either wether,
eve or lamb receipts at any of the old
jumping-off places, and to the trade
out here there must be grief to some
of the fellows who are feeding out
lambs at last falls prices on a to 61a
cent market. A year ago the same
stuff probably much better fattened),
was bringing a dollar a hundred more
money.
The combined receipts of the big
places since the first of the year, show
q gain over the same period of 1905 of
s175, 900, and the weather hereabOuts for
the past fortnight hasn't been of a sort
to offset the disappointing returns
actual selling for mutton purposes
handed feeders. Flockmasters are keep
ing in pretty frequent communication
with their wintering bands on the
desert and elsewhere from this center,
and they report incOnSequential losses,
notwithstanding circulated rumOrs of
heavy mortality in places But the wet
SHOWS and nasty cold blasts, which
have been hanging on, are having a
3 l. Ia
particularly of ewes, as they menace
the lamb crop in the judgment of these
wise ones. A ClOud-clean-up with a
streak of warm weather will probably
start contracting pat prices fairly well
up to last falls selling figures.
The few hogs arriving at the local
yards are selling at S6.25 to $3.50
hundred.
Receipts at Stock Yards.
Among the receipts at the Union
stockyards during the week, Leary and
Warren report the following:
Chas. Turner, Pennington, Julius
Oils Packing Co, San Bernadino,
thirty cattle; same to Billy Edwards,
Salt Lake, eight cattle; Lars Hansen,
Logan, to IntermOuntain Packing Co,
thirty cattle; Elias Adams, Layton to
Utah Packing Co, six steers; George
r. Howard Nephi, to Utah Packing
Co, thirty-One steers; Hyrum Stewart
KaysviIle, to Utah Packing Co, thirty
four steers; Haley and Saunders, On
tariO, to same Kansas City (pulp-feed
Grand Junction), 517 steers; Frank
Bourne to William Wood, six steers;
w. r. Layton to William Wood, eight
steers; Hyrum Stewart, Kaysville, to
Utah Packing Co, thirty-seven sheep;
P G. Peterson, Mt. Pleasant, to Utah
Packing Co, $50 sheep; J. G. Leary,
MaIad, to Utah Packing Co., 81 sheep;
Through: Utah Construction Co., Gar
field, to same Oroville, California, one
car of horses; Fitzpatrick Bros. and
Collins, Manti to Thayer, Neb., one
car of horses; H. P. Zimmerman, Mont
pelier to Riverside, California, one car
of horses.