East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-16
CHRISTMAS BEEF
MAKES PRICE RECORD
ALL PREVIOUS SALES AT
PORTLAND ARE ECLIPSED
Ordinary Beef Cattle Are Firm
Hogs Show Weak Tendency-Sheep
Are Firm and Higher Chicago
Wheat Shows Advance.


High class Christmas beef is show
ing monopoly of the movement at
North Portland at this time. The hon
ors are taken by s. c. Oxman of Dur
kee and A. II. Barnum of Moro. Mr.
OXman has the honor Of obtaining the
highest price ever received in the
Portland stockyards for finished cat
tie, while Mr.. Barnum receives the
credit for inausurating the raising of
baby beef of quality, which invari-
alb sells at a much higher price than
does ordinarily called fancy quality
or 3-year-olds.
Sales of steers were made this
morning as high as $40 per hundred
pounds. this value being received by
Mr. Oxman for two animals that
weighed 1910 and 1920 pounds re-
spectively. The same shipper sold
another animal at SO and still anoth-
er at IS.
Such lot of high priced stuff has
never before been seen at North
Portland but the trade took hold and
| paid prices with practically no delay.
Ordinary Cattle Firm.
| The big movement of high class
| cattle has given the impression in
some quarters that the market is ex-
tremely high for ordinary offerings,
! but this is not the case. Trade in the
cattle market at North Portland is
firm for all offerings, but it is doubt
full If the run of what is ordinarily
called top" steers would bring above
$5.75 at this time despite the fact
that some extra fancy stuff sold at al
most twice this figure.
Hogs Weak But Unchanged.
There was a weak tone in the hog
market today with no change in pri-
ces The SO head that arrived sold al
1855. but this continues the extreme
top of the trade at Portland and onl,
selected offerings would bring tina
figure
sheep Firm and Higher.
Market for sheep and lambs is firm
er and higher at North Portland. Sale
made during the day were general,
at an advance of 10 TO 15c over pre-
vious transactions. There was a fai
showing of supplies in the yards thi
morning and therefore killers tool
hold quickly at the higher range
| Quality was likewise good and thi
was help.
| Grain and Hay.
| Wheat-Producers' price nominal
| track delivery, club, 79c; bluesten
| S1dS2c; fortyfold, soc; Willamett
| valley 79c; red Russian, II; Turke
| red, soc.
| Bariey+Producers' prices 191
| Feed, s31@S1.5O; rolled. SO.
brewing, $37
| Oats-Producers' price-Track N
l. spot delivery, white, $30.5O; gra
$50.
Misunderstanding price - Bra
s24 so; middlings, s31; shorts, $25.5
chop, s19@25.
: Hay-Producers' price-1911 ere
Valley timothy, fancy, SIS a 16; o
dinary, $1S@14; eastern Oregon. SIG
5O@17; Idaho. $17; mixed, $12@1j
t clover. s1Odl1; wheat. s11; chea
n s11; alfalfa, s12@13; oats, s11.
a Chicago Shorts Covering.
n Chicago. Dec l6.-Shorts becam
frightened at the general advance
a foreign wheat prices, due to the S,
we're rainfall in the wheat country
O Argentina.
e The heavy advance at Buenos Ayr'
= the lack of offerings there togetht
with the sharply higher pric,
d throughout Europe, did not fail
= cause shorts to look more to the
IL safety.
: Wheat opened here at an advant
= of IA to 3-Sc and closed with a ri:
l. OF 3-S to l 5-Sc above yesterday.
, There is a strengthening of cas-
s wheat prices at home. At Minneal
oils millers were reported as hber
= buyers of cereal.