The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-12-11
OR0IER5 SUFFER
HEAVY Loss IN
LACAL MARKET
HOGS SELL NEARLY DOLLAR UN
DER CHICAGO PRIcEs-PACkiNo
HOUSES, WITH NO RIVAL BUY.
ERs, REAP RICH HARVEST.

Thursday was the darkest day tina
shippers 10 the Detroit live stock ma
ket have ever known. Drovers VIII
had hogs TO sell. in many cases scorco
| heavier losses thar ever before m
! the history OF the trade. Receipts
were larger than could be handled Il
advantage I'm the yards, only PAL!
of which have been disinfected, al
many of the hogs loaded In the coun
try on Monday and Tuesday lay IN
! the cars all day Thursday and were
not unloaded until late Friday morn
| ing.
Local hog buyers made the best OF
the opportunity, buying all finished
hogs at 50. Under normal conditions
! prime hogs would have brought 1915
| per cwt. in this market Thursday
The top In Cleveland on the same
cay was $685.: In Chicago $685., and
in Cincinnati $3.50. The quality was
the best of the season. the average
weight being higher than usual, thus
making the loss per hog much greater
than II would otherwise have been
The packers pleaded inability 10 han
die the arrivals. but it is wel-remern-
|
more than 81 900 hogs were on sale
they found way TO use them. IT
was quite different then. however
there were other buyers ready to take
them. but this week no stock can 5o
| shipped cut.
Cattle were just about steady with
last week for the good butcher kind,
but s heretofore there was no sale for
feeding cattle or mich cows. Veal
calves opened about steady with last
week. but the market went to pieces
before the day was over and the close
was weak. At the opening a few lambs
brought last weeks prices, but at the
close the deal was about the worst
ever known in the Detroit yards and
for "rotteness,' a good second to the
wretched hog trade.
Receipts: Cattle. 759: calves, 79l
sheep, 2,16S; hogs, 1906.
CATTLE.
Sold BY Bishop, H. q II. TO Michigan
bssf Co. butchers :; average weisht
:, SCI. si.35; do. butchers 8. 800. So:
do. butchers .. 1,075, $3.50: do. butch
er. !: $50. 81; Fitzpatrick, BUTCHERS H.
Sold by Reason & Mayer to schleich
err bulls :. Go3, SO; Newton. steers D.
sy.5O; Michigan Beef Co. butchers o.
SEQ $40; do. butchers Z, 7s5, s3.26.
Sold by Roe Con- CO to D. Mich; BEEF
Is. $40; 's.55; do, butchers q. i'is9'
Ss!eh.rs 6. rs; ss75; do dob butchers s i,
81? ' a. cow ssvfn sc s' ss do steers Se
500. So; do. cows /, $50. s.; Rather,
sFfSG cs s. 49, sssS W Ka%Tsn ss
Sold by Spicer. NJ 4 b. TO Jones,
butchers s, 1,0sS. s3.75; do, butchers :,
Sold by Haley TO Mich. Beef Co.
butchers $. 72O, s3.75; do. butchers /,
l.ofO. s4.25; do. butchers 3, 923. $3.50;
Jones butchers 2 i'cI5 g.. 2S sch ,shcns
. 1850, $3.50; do. butchers g. i,Olc
lS5;25: Coos butchers 2. 1;1so; s2.5o.
s34O
Fought by Michigan Beef Co. OF
wa gner. cows ?, 925. Sc; DO, steers s.
$40. $40 do, bulls /. LAO. s325; do,
COWS 9, l,130. $3.50.
SHEEP AND LAMBS.
Bought by Sullivan OF Bishop, Is. &
H.: sheep 10. average weight 90 lbs
sleep ! (, 107 So; do. sheep I. l02. s2,7o
Bought by Newton OF Robb. lambs.
-, 100. So: Bishop, B. d H., b. 100 IS.
Bought by Fitzpatrick OF Bishop. IL.
& H.. lambs so. SIS. $40; do. sheep ..
95 50; do. sheep Z. 100, So; do lambs
:. Of, S5.25 do, lambs T. 80, sj do.
lambs 65. SO, $3.50: do. sheep 4. io5. ~
do. sheep 10. -. Sc: do, sheep SS. 81.
90 lambs -, 80, $3.50; do, lambs SO. So.
s. 40; do. culls 90, 65. So; Haley, sheep
Is 95. s2.75
Bought by Newton OF Robb. lambs "a,
1o3. So Bishop. -. & H., lambs g. 100,
So; do. bucks 1. 40. 50.
Bought by Parker. Webb &c Co. OF
Bishop. b. & H.. sheep 7. III. 81: do,
lambs %. 10 s5.95 do. lambs IS. rs,
1925; do lambs 20. So, s525; do. lambs
&c So s5.25
Bought by Barlage Of Bishop. p. e.
II. sheep IL. los. So; do, lambs I, 70.