East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-03-25

With competitive markets higher, the
sheep will go in the direction where
the best prices are available. For
that reason local buyers will be COM
PEELED to bid up. For the general run
of wethers the price here is $475. At
Omaha 1t is $5.25. Lambs are quot
ed here at $3.50 for best quality,
while the Omaha price is S6.45. Port
land is quoting $4.25 for ewes while
at Omaha the market stands around
$500.
While there was a further drop in
the price of hogs at eastern centers
the local market was practically un-
changed this morning. Extra fine
light stuff is generally quoted around
$500.
Two loads of Montana cattle came
forward TO the yards today. Demand
Is practically as previously reported.
Prices are showing no change.
Egg Prices Firm.
Egg prices stand no higher than
21c a dozen. While there has been
talk Of still higher values, nothing
above 21c has been confirmed along
the street. Sales that were made be-
yond this are said to include delivery,
which would take off the additional
cent dozen charged.
Receipts of eggs are increasing. 81
will sell anyone all the eggs they want
at 21c a Dozen" says Harry Wimple
of the Wimple Produce company.
There is n lot of hot air about the
.yIy Of hut tc 60
buy today l will sell at the price quot
ed. Those that are asking more will
have to come down from their high
horse, because the market will not
stand It,"
Offering Of eastern eggs at 19c
dozen by the carlots has had the ef-
feet Of quieting the excited dealers
who received case now and then,
and on this account try to establish a
market. once in a while a small
handler will be able to secure a frac-
tional advance over the market, but
the price is generally made on what
the bulk of the streets receipts will
move at.
Sensational Barley Advance.
Sensational advances are being fore
ed in the coarse grain market as the
result Of extremely higher prices in
the east. a shortage in the offerings
! OF barley has sent eastern quotations
tc the highest point since 1886.
Locally there has been a further ad-
vance of 81 a ton in the price of feed
barley, quotations ranging between $25
and $3.50 and purchases hard to
make at the advancing figures.
Eastern interests continue to de-
mand our brewing barley at interior
centers and are secretly bidding much
higher prices than those available
publicly
Oats market here has been affected
by the sharply higher price for barley
and as high as $3.50 is being offered
for No. 1 white here.
Wheat market shows an advance
bluestem. Principal millers say they
are not in the market at all Just now.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean today says
of the barley situation there:
Fancy mailing barley sold at s1.13
yesterday. the highest since Septem-
ber, 1886. In 1907 prices touched
SI10, while in 1883 sales were made
ar $I02. An advance of 9912c in a
week has been absolutely without
speculation and 1t is doubtful IL val
ues would have reached such a fig
ure If there had been trading in bar
ley mutures, as the matters might
have bought for future delivery some
time ago, which would have neces-
STATED bringing all the Pacific coast
surplus to markets in the central west
to make deliveries and would have
stopped exports from the Pacific coast
at comparatively low prices.
although matters were anxious
buyers yesterday, they expressed the
opinion at the close that the advance
was about enough for the time being
as they have secured fairly liberal
supply by purchases made to arrive
and even the most rampant bulls re-
garded the market as strained, al
though they continued to predict s1.25
later in the season."
Foley Kidney Pills.