Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-18

Totals ...............,.......... 1Ss S070
CATTLE-It was the usual Saturday holi-
Gay In the cattle division, nothing OF conse-
quence being received or sold. Tine receipts
TINS week have been very liberal. being con-
sideraply IN excess OF last weeks figures
responding week OF a year ago. The close
Of the market would seem to indicate,
however, that the receipts have been none
100 large TO satisfy the demands of the
market.
It would be hard to imagine more sat
vailed during the first four days this week
In spite OF large receipts the. trade was
active and prices strong to higher every
everything offered at most satisfactory tory
prices, the market as whole being the
highest Of any time SO far this year. on
and as packers had their orders pretty
well hlled by that time, the market eased
to loo lower, After allowing Tor this re-
action the market at the close Of the week
Is stiil fully l6aa6e higher than at the close
Cows and heifers had about the same ex-
perlence as lat steers, except that they
showed still more advance during the FIRST
four days OF the week and did not make as
much loss on Friday, so that at the close
of the week they are about Csc higher
was paid for cows during the week, but,
as matter OF course, they were very
good. The very excellent demand that has
trade.
Suckers and feeders were not in very
large supply on any day OF the week, but
there were few coming all the time,
while the country demand was temporarily
| cut on by the severe storm of Tuesday. In
consequence OF this some little accumulation
OF feeders took place toward the latter part
OF the week and the feeling was generally
Feeders have not shown the advance that
fat cattle have, largely for the reason that
sSey Tse ALREADY high st they ssPsd
week, but allowing for a little weakness
at the close. the market could not at the
present time be quoted materially higher
than it was at the end OF last week.
Representative sales;
| BULLS.
10 i:.........,iss % q ~ ....., Az Pa
! hOGS-For a Saturday there was a very
run q hogs ~ fresh cars Peins
a slight falling on, as compared with last
week, but a heavy gain over a year ago.
than double what they were for the CORE
sponding week OF last year.
| Conditions were generally in sellers favor
asking considerably more money for his
| holdings. While buyers were little slow
at first about putting on the market was
under way, with values generally big Sc
largely az ss.SOa5,szh, as against s5ssSsg
higher than the best price yesterday.
This has been great week TO the sellers
| OF hogs. as everything had been coming
their way. At the opening the hogs sold
| in identically the same notches as at the
close OF the previous week. Turing th'
next three days values advanced rapidly
and after slight reaction OF Friday were
still decidedly higher than at the beginning
OF the week. With the advance today this
market is an even zoe higher than IL was
| at the close OF last week. While the aver.
age price at which hogs were selling todaS
Is just about $500 one year ago the syerae,
/ price was A.I5, two years ago 500 three
| years ago N.02. The last mentioned pric,
was the highest at which hogs have soil
on this market during the month of Feb
ruary since 1893, when they averaged $.li
on the nth of the month.
| Representative sales: