The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-30

last week, and with the enormous
amount of feed in the country are in !
position to hold off whenever they T,
are displeased with the market. Many
cattle will be wintered unless the
market stays up good. The let up in /
supplies, and the recovery of prices .
as a result was an object lesson to !
packers as to what they may expect
this fall Worked out to it's final end, I
| it means that prices will stay high all
, fall Present range is 40 to IS cents
tine cattle here today is 81 car loads,
market steady, top steers at $3.50, in
quarantine division, and bulk of steers
there at $4.25 to $3.50, cows at 1856
to $3.50 for bulk, tops $425, calves
$3.50 to $3.50. Demand for stockers
and feeders in the native division is
taking everything in those classes,
and sometimes reaches over in the
killing steers, taking a good many
fleshy steers for a short feed Some
quarantine cattle are also being
bought here, and shipped back below
the line for feeding purposes, govern
ment regulations permitting this and
the return freight is only rs per cent
of the inbound rates.
Hog run here last week was only
23,500 head. as compared with $4,000
same week last year Other markets
also exhibit big losses for the week
from same week last year. and packers
are confronted with an acute shortage
of hogs. Hardly enough are coming
to fill the fresh meat demand, and
there is no relief possible, of any mo-
ment, for long time ahead. In spite
of short supplies, the market lost 21
cents last week, on an average, heavies
showing more than this much loss.
Run today 4,500 market steady to
strong, top 9.S215, bulk 1915 to 1926.
top on heavy hogs $3.50.
Sheep receipts here last week were
10000 head, heaviest on record here
by 10000. Prices lost Is to 25 cents,
but that is very light in view of the
big run. People are eating more NUT
ton, account of slim hog supplies,
which enables packers to use more
sheep, and the country has a capacity
almost unlimited, because of the i'm
mense amount of feed available. Top
lambs today $3.50, feeding lambs
around $500, yearlings worth up to
$5.25, wethers $3.50, ewes $4.4O for
light weights, heavy Wyoming ewes
today $3.50.
Buying stock cattle here to ship to
Vinita, Okla, is out Of the ordinary,
but it is being done Yesterday Frank
Toler of that place, a stock farmer
was on the quarantine division and
bought string of cattle weighing
655 lbs. Mr.. Toler reports the crops
good, feed plentiful, but stock cattle
, very scarce. "And these cattle which
bought to take back to that coun-
try" said Mr.. Toler, "came from that
vicinity, and were sold here to me
only to be shipped back to the same
state. Just how such things occur
and why they should occur, l do not
understand, but it has actually hap
pened Some one may say that we
ought to go out around home and buy
these cattle and save freight and com
mission. Well that is very good ad
vice, but around my neighborhood, as
far as l know in every direction, there
are no stock cattle for sale. If man
values his time at anything at all he
will be money ahead by coming to
Kansas City and buying his stockers
Those who have stock cattle hold them
at such high prices that we cannot
take them. They want to keep them
as they are scarce. That is coun
try that ought to be furnishing a
great many cattle.