East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-11-15
SURVEY OF WEEKS
STOCK MARKET
PORTLAND PAYS HIGHEST
PRICES IN THE COUNTRY
Hog Market Was Prominent During
Week-Top Quality Bringing $s.O5
Holding Back of Shippers I'm
proves Cattle Market-No Change
In Sheep or Lambs.

Union Stockyards, stockdale. Nov
13.-Hogs formed the principal ar
rivals in the stockyards during the
week Even with the greater run
there was a firmer, instead Of weak
er tone, and prices again went to the
top at SS.O5 for best quality.
Those who are disposed to criti-
cize the local market recently should
look to the matter Of quality more
carefully and they will find that the
Portland market is today paying the
highest price in the country for hogs,
quality considered Naturally this
means primary markets because those
who buy for outside shipment are
forced to pay the primary market
price and then add the freight This
therefore would bring prices out Of
line with actual conditions.
Paying S805 for All Top Hogs.
Those at the buying end of the
market were quite willing to pay $8.O5
for good select hogs. Swine that were
Of toppy quality did not long for buy
ers at the highest mark in recent
trading. That which went to the 200
pound mark or better, and was well
finished in the bargain, was what To-
cal people and outside, buyers were
looking for.
Hogs sold at Stockdale during the
week at the price their quality called
for Therefore the So stuff was easy
to dispose of at that figure and stuff
that was not worth more than S7.S5
in comparison. could not be sold
above that figure. Bulk Of hog sales
IN the stockyards during the week was
between $3.50 and S7.75. but there
were quite a few sales around @7S5
0S
Cattle Shippers Take Advice and Win
Advice galore has been gwen cattle
shippers during the recent weeks. but
not until this week did they care to
accept even portion Of It,
Shipments Of cattle to Stockdale !
during the week we're not so liberal
A. week ago As had been fore |
east in these columns, the better class |
Of stuff found ready, yes eager buy |
ers as high a quotation as has been |
received during recent weeks. Steers
that could be called No. l for this /
market sold up to $3.50 and the top |
price for cows during the week went |
as high as $3.50. There were fire.
suent sales Of cows fraction or two
under this, but the decline was due
entirely to the lack Of suitable quail
ity.
1t would not be amss here TO say
that Portland Is the highest primary
market for cattle in the country. Stuff
that sells here at $3.50 would not
bring so high a figure, freight and
ether charges added, in any OF the
markets OF the east While a much
higher price is in effect for cattle at
eastern centers, still the tops are re-
celved only for stuff that never enters
this market n
Only a limited run of sheep appear
ed at Stockdale during the past week,
A total OF $40 head comparing with
1902 last week, 951 the previous week
md 522 a month ago.
Had this small run been shown at
any other period II IS quite likely
hat material advance In the price
would have been shown with the
big people well supplied with sheep ,
and lambs that they had purchased
It Idaho and Montana points, there I
vas no need for big run here dur =
ng the week. Wants OF yillers were
therefore, very limited and the only (
buyers were the smaller operators or t
hose who ship to other centers. c
Generally speaking there was no
hange in the position OF the sheep y
md lamb market from what it occu- q
lied during the previous six days. q
only n nominal number of lambs ap- I
eared but there was no excitement
IN this account. Real good lambs I
re absent from the market at this
ime.
Many times the numper or calves
,hlch entered the stockdale yards S
Iurlng the week could have been ia" '
en- care OF by the trade without dis l
urbing prices in the least SO rev t
alves arrived that 1t was hard 10 v
lalntain any certain price during the c
eek. Practically no fancy stuff was
. evidence and this accounts for the u
wv price range. e