Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-09

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Butter-Firm; creameries, 31M34c.
Eggs-Firm; fresh receipts, 21@24c;
refrigerator frsts, 19-..-25c.
Cattle - Steady to 1Oc higher.
Beeves, $5.7O@995; Texas steers, $500
@5.SO; western steers, $5.75@7. 60;
stockers and feeders, $4.25@7 40; COWS
anad heifers, $2.95@7.S0 calves, $3.50
@10.25.
Hogs-Market sc to 1oc higher
Light, $7.1O@7.42 1-2; mixed, $3.50
7.6O; heavy, $715@7.6o; rough, $7.15@
7.30; pigs, $5.25@6.9O; bulk of sales,
$7.3O@7.6O.
Sheep-Market generally 10c higher.
Native, $4.20@5.50; western, $4.2O@
$50; yearlings, $@7.20; lambs, native,
$6.10@s.75; western, $6.45@s.75.
New York.
Copper quiet; standard spot to March,
$17@17 3-S; electrolytic, $17.62M17.S7;
lake, $17.62@17.s7; casting, $1725@
1877; exports for the motnh, 23,916
tons.
Tin = Firm; spot and December,
$5O.25@5O.35.
Lead quiet, $4.20@4.3O.
Spelter-Quiet, $7.2O@7.4O.
Antimony-Quiet; Cookson IS, $1,000.
Iron-Quiet and unchanged.
Bar silver, 62 lie; Mexican dollars,
4sc
San Francisco.
Wheat - Shipping, $1.47 1-2@1.5o;
barley, feed, $1.37 1-2; oats, white,
$1.55@1.57 12; black, $1.s0@2.20.
Millstuffs-Bran, $23@24; middlings,
$50. 5O@35.
Hay-Wheat, $23@24; wheat and
oats, $21@22.5O; barley, $17@19; al
falfa, $12.5O@15.
Butter-Fancy creamery, Sac.
Eggs - Store, &c; fancy ranch
80 1-2c.
Cheese-Young America, 16@17c.
Portland.
Wheat-Tracl1 prices: Club, 800 soc
bluestem, s3@s4c; fortyfold, sO@s1c;
red Russian, Isl; valley, Sic.
Butter-City and country creamery ex
tras, solid pack, 81 12c.
Livestock.
The Portland Union Stock Yards Co
reports as follows:
Receipts for the week were: Cattle
1900; calves, 2; hogs, 5,o35; sheep
$3.50; horses, 4Oc.
Christmas beef is beginning to be-
in evidence and some very fancy stuff
! is being shown in the yards Very
: heavy receipts of cattle for the week
but strong demand and higher prices
especially for top grade of steers
Cows and heifers-ordinary grade,
steady with a week ago. One car OF
Hereford steers from Haines, Oregon
sold at $3.50 and one at $765. Ol
Tuesday a car of steers from Prime
, vile sold at $7.65. These sales wer,
the highest ever made on the ope1
market here for foil carload of steers.
Unusually heavy receipts of hog
, had tendency to lower the prices So
to 75c less than last week. The ex
: treme top on hogs at present is $7.35
l with many sales reported at $7.15 t,
1925.
Heavy receipts of sheep and lamb
> but good demand and prices a shad
higher for choice grades Prime lamb
sold on Mondays market at &c, thi
season S top, so far.
The following sales are representa-
tive; Steers, $7@s.5O; COWS, $6@7
heifers, $6.75; calves, So; stays, $3.50
f bulls, $5.25; hogs, $7.3O@7.5O; lambs
r $6.75@7; wethers, $685.; ewes, 1925.
Tacoma.
!. Wheat-With the advent of Christ
mas there has been no business pass
ing of consequence in the wheat mai
ket. Export sales have been at a min
/ mum for a considerable time, an
[ nothing is reported in the way o
e European cargo trade, though the e.
e tent to which Japan has entered int
: the situation as a consumer of Washins
ton wheat is indicated by the arrivs
!, at this port of the steamship for loadin
= full cargo of approximately 700
- tons, the largest single shipment G
II wheat ever carried to the orient. Gu
e going liners also continue to carr
l. consignments practically up to the
s space limitations, while scattering bus
ness on that account it the only featu1
t. of note in the disposition of the remain
]. ing crop holdings. The mills are bu,
q ing sparingly, though pretty we
q stocked up for their requirements, viii
y, some business is doing for West Goa.
y ports, including shipments to San Fral
z. cisco.
IS The undertone of the market hi
If taken on an element of strength, SUI
s. ceeding the considerable period
depression characteristic of Novembt
IS and the early portion of Decembe
The statistical position of wheat
;, causing buyers to take a little mol
!; interest in the situation, and thel
j, are rather better quotations Indicate
+ both in advices from abroad and
u speculative markets at home, despit
the fact that the Southern hemisphel
will soon be the dominant source