Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-08
RECORD PRICE OF $500 MADE Fol
THE YEAR, ADVANCE BEING
is CENTS.
DEMAND FOR MEDIUM GRADES
SMALL AND NATIVES LOWER
Active Opening in Hogs Soon Subsidies
and Market Settles to Steady Basis,
With Close Unchansed-Both Sheep
and Lambs straightforward Quota
tions.

chicago, Sept. S.-Demand Tor prime
cattle was the most active of the year,
Prices climbed 10 cents ON an average.
The leading packer took load OF
heavy steers at $500, or Is cents high
err than the previous high mark. Sew
eral lots went at sS.15, among them
some prime yearlings, and the entire
market for anything that was good
enough to command $3.50 or better was
10 cents higher. At the same time there
was little urgency for lower grades, all
tho they were steady. Western cattle
were higher on better grades. Butchers
in the native division We're slow and
steady to cents lower.
Prices for the 81 and higher classes,
in holding steady with last weeks clos
ing range, gave indication of the par
| tiality of killers demands for good
/ beef. Boost in wholesale prices for No.
! | ribs and loins indicates the strength
of consumptive demand for best grades
but as against a strong beef market
| for tops there is claimed a weaker
tendency in the trade for lower class
beef. and. with biggest end of cattle
marketing steers of the class which go
into lower priced beef trade, killers
bearish attitude is we'll explained.
Rangers are just now proving the
cheapest buying proposition, and while
an opportunity is afforded killers to I'LL
UP coolers with cheap western beef
~. md
for the lower priced natives
On the other hand the apparent
scarcity of finished native steers is as
surance of flrmness in prices for the
next few weeks. The country appears
to have been caught short handed witt
finished steers ait a time when the bee,
market for that kind shows greater
strength than earlier this season.
I Three roads reported total of II
! cars in sight for today, which the trade
, took to indicate probable receipts o
10. 900 to 21,000 of which 5000 to 500
are scheduled to be western rangers
Last Wednesday arrivals were 1858
and a year ago 1869 Were received.
Hogs.
There was an active moment at tn
0 outset, but the market gradually set
: tied back to a steady basis, when pack
a ers came into the trade. The close wa
practically unchanged.
The price range is very narrow a
present and little of decent quality
$ selling below So. The s765@790 STUFF
1. heavy, coarse and common mike
IS packers, in whole loads or pieces,
e. slow because it has no other QUITE
T. ~,
e Shippers are taking twice as man
: hogs as a year ago on lighter ru
L. yesterday. Supply in the west WE
light, the five principal markets havin
IS less than 10000, or a few less tina
II last week or a year ago. The two-da
2. supply at these points is about $500
w or 10000 less than last week, satfsfat
J. tory evidence that the country is not
possession of the stuff that would
~ necessary to break prices materially.
~ Sheep.
80 Both sheep and lambs were stead
% The best western lambs went at 81;
~ natives at $3.50, and the better class
sheep at s4S5, which is regarded as
.e fully steady price. Feeding stuff W
- strong.