East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-05
BLUEsTEM GOES
NOW At sl.15
REPORT OF SMALL SALE
AT ADVANCED PRICE
Price OF Sheep Advances Twenty
Five Cents In Portland Market
Demand is Strong at Almost Pro-
hibitlye Prlces-Demand for Pork
ers is Also Firm.

lot of bluestem had been sold local.
a. $1.15 a bushel, the highest pric
obtainable for many years. Will
the trade knows of none who Is pay
ing the exhorbitant figures reported
the reports are not denied for the,
may be quite possible. Almost an!
price is obtainable for bluestem thes,
days If man wants /. badly enough
said prominent operator today
That Is the wheat situation In O nut.
shell.
Other grades Of cash wheat remain
firm with some late purchases repor...
ed around the figures quoted by TIL,
Journal. Coarse grains are firm, but
rather inactive.
| There was no change in grain fu-
lures on the Portland board of trade
today.
Sheep Are Higher.
Portland Union Stockyards Feb
4.-There was a showing Of weakness
in the hog market today and I; was
sufficient to pull the price of ordi-
nary stuff down Csc, although some
thing select may still bring as high as
ST. However, none of the grade which
will bring this figure has been put in
appearance today. In the yards to-
dry 1915 is generally the top for
what Is ordinarily called top hogs.
Run of hogs for the day was but
I "a hnaI h,tt .e 1s4 l.
cally have been very liberal and the
wants Of killers have been quite well
taken care of for the immediate fu-
ture at least. Killers are not dis
posed TO purchase unless allowed a
lower range. There was a fresh lot
OF weakness noted in the eastern mar
kets during the past few days To-
days price Of hogs in the cas-. Is 10c
lower than yesterday This latter Is
giving the killers here some license
to bear down prices here for they
assert that local prices are getting
out Of line and fresh imports will be
started in this direction from Ne
braska unless the local and eastern
markets come closer together
freight charges being equalzed.
Sheep Market Quarter Up.
An advance Of 25c is shown today
IN the local market for sheep and in
dicates that killers are coming to the
terms of the sheepmen. The holding
by the latter has caused nominal sup
plies to be shown here and at other
coast points and today's advance in
ewes to $5.25 is The result. This IL
25c over all recent figures.
There was surprising run or sheep
IN the yards during the past "a
hours. In all 6S1 head put in appear
ance. While this number is small in
with what II would be
considering the extent of the demand
supplies are so much better than dur
Ing recent weeks. Today's run OF
sheep was most half as great as the |
total arrivals in the yards a week ago |
Good quality is wanted in the cattle
market and for best stock prices re- |
main at former figures. While no |
quotation on cows has recently been
ally of the opinion that as high as
S4.25 would be obtainable for quail
ty, likewise S5.25 for top steers 1t
: only in the off grade stuff that real
iullness and weakness is noted with
prices radically Csc lower.
"The market is all right for best
luality cattle" says S. p. Gould of
he Gould Commission company.
One car of cattle hung over last
Ugh: owing to lack of buyers. but
his was not good quality, Hogs are
little weaker. Sheep are in good
emand at better prices"
Tom C. Benson of T. C. Benson &
market doesn't seem
o show any particular change. Good
took is in demand but there is a lull
n the buying of poor quality. The
market will only absorb a limited
mount of this poor truck but too
1uch has been coming in the cattle
ne.
Excellent Demand In Sheep.
j. c. Lonergan-The marke: for
heep is in fine shape with small ar
ivals For line of ewes $5.25 was ,,
btained today this being an ad-
ance of 25c over recent figures.
elieve in the future of the sheep :
larket. Market is all right for top
.eers and cows Hogs are dragging !
nd it takes something extremely