Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

irving have met with very ready sale at
strong prices as compared with last week.
tango beef cattle have been active sellers
on practically every day throughout the
week, with prices quoted steady or strong
until at the, close il is safe to say that the
general market is around 1Odi5c higher
than ii was at the close of last week. The
way buyers have taken everything coming
It has been very evident that they have
had a place to put the cattle and that may
be taken as an explanation of the fact that
prices have advanced in the face of very
liberal receipts.
The market on COWS and heifers also has
been in very satisfactory condition through
out the whole week. 1ne demand has been
active, SO that each days arrivals have
met with quite ready sale at prices showing
more or less strength from day to day.
Al the close of the week the market Is
around l0c higher than last weeks close.
Inc strength shown has not been limited
TO any one kind, strictly good cattle, as
vel as Gamers, being quoted higher.
Good fleshy feeders have been in active
demand throughout the week, selling freely
every day at good steady prices and at the
close OF the week the market is fully
steaty VII a week ago, On the other
hand there has been a large supply of COM
mon to medium grades of both stockeIs
ana Feeders, which have been rather slow
sale every day, the country not appearing
TO care tor that kind. Hence there has
been a tendency toward accumulation of
thal class of cattle in the hands of specu-
iatols, with the natural result that prices
nave had a downward tendency. At the
close OF the week they are around l5a25c
lo"er IMAM laSt week and Zoe lower tnan
the high time two weeks ago.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
corn-ted steers, $G.4Og7.25: fair to good
corn-ted steers, S5.25q6.i0: common to fair
cOrn-ted steers, A.0Ou5.25; good To choice
range steers, A75d5,5O; fair TO good range
steels, Si.25M4. 70; common TO fair range
steers, S,50q4.25; good to choice cows and
heiters, S3.6Oq4&; fair to good cows and
hetfers, SS.OGq3.6O; common to fair cows
and heifers, S2.2d3.OO; good to choice
stockers and feeders, &.OOd4. 60; fair to good
stockers and feeders. .40M4OO: common to
fair stockers and feeders, $2.15d3. 40; stock
heifers. S2I5dS,3.
HOGS-Hogs opened SC higher this morn
Ing and the trade was fairly active at the
advance, so far as the good hogs were con
cerned at least. Later on, as advices from
other points were none too good, and as
later trains brought In quite a good many
hogs the market eased off, the advance OF
the morning being lost. The trade was
very dull at the close and the feeling weak
and unsatisfactory as compared with the
early market. The hogs sold very largely
at %.55qG65, as against s6.55d6.6O yester-
day. The top hogs reached 1913, which
was &c higher than yesterdays top and the
highest price paid in a long time.
Receipts of hogs this week have been
slightly less than last week and consider
ably smaller than a year ago. The market
this week has fluctuated back and forth,
the low point having been reached on
Thursday. The Improvement In prices yes
terday and today leaves the market about
l5c higher than at the close of last week
and at the high point Of the year to date.
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