The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-11
CATTLE ADVANCE
WELL MAINTAINED
General High Prices-HOgs Shade
L0wer-Sheep Prices Still Away
Tn.

The advance in the North Portland
market is very good evidence that tat
cattle prices are soaring all over the
country and will doubtless continue
very strong until grass cattle are
ready
The strength of the market has not
been unhealthy and spasmodic but all
this season has shown a continued
healthy growth with excellent price
result
Today the strength is very evident,
although no actual higher price was
recorded. Arrivals were not heavy
outside of a few head of she stuff
brought in with other stock. There
was a consignment Of steers from Sill
yer Bow, Mont, over the Northern
Pacific via Seattle.
During 1910 hogs sold at the record
price of around eleven cents, owing to
the general hog famine all over the
United States at that time. Prices this
year are above the Scent mark at all
recognized markets. The general con-
ditions however, exhibit a paradox
since this winters marketing has been
the biggest winters run in the history
of the trade.
The previous high mark showed a
demand that was only normal, while
this year the demand is abnormal both
at home and abroad
Buyers were very much averse to
paying the price for hogs Tuesday and
were liberal with the take Off" Tops
selling for &c. Quality was nothing to
speak of, either. The receipts totaled
nearly a thousand head.
A "skyhigh" sheep market still pre-
walls. The past month was one of
record prices and small receipts with
all indications pointing to a duplica-
ton of the March market this month.
If quotations are any indication of
what a market would be if there were
any arrivals so that an actual test
could be made it is anticipated that
prices would show up every week and
in line with eastern markets.
The pelt and wool of the sheep con-
tinues to help keep sheep prices on a
high level. The average sheep pelt
and wool brings the killer very good
money.
Steer quotations are: Choice grain
and pulp-fed, $780, choice hay-fed
$8.5O@8.75; good, sS15@S.5O; medium
$775@S15; ordinary, s7.5O@775; com
mon, s70O@75O.
Cow quotations are; Choice $500
7.SO; good. $6.75@7.25; medium, $625
@6.5O; ordinary, $6.00@$6.25; COM
mon, $475@6OO.
Heifer quotations are: Choice spay-
ed, $7OO@775; good, $6.00@7O0; 9th
er varieties $5.00@600.
Bull quotations are: Choice, $4.5(
! $500; good, $3.50@450; medium
|, $3O0@3.5O; common, $2.75@3.OO.
t Stag quotations are: Choice $1,000
5.25; good, $4.5O@5OO; othre varieties
= $300@4.50.
, Stocker quotations are: Best select
= ed, $50 to 1000 lbs, $5.50@650; bes
S selected, 700 to 900 lbs, $525@6.00
y choice stock heifers, $4.50@5. 500; gooC
0 to choice stock cows, $4.50@525.
r. Mixer quotations are: Jersey heif
= ers, $40 and up; good grade Holsteins
t 500 and up; good grade Durhams
t $S0@$10O; good Jerseys, $60@$S0.
l Hog quotations are: Prime light
{ $500; prime strong weights, $S.90Q
800; good to prime mixed $S.50@
S.75; rough heavy packing, $1,000
/ 500; pigs and skips, $7.90@S.00.
Sheep quotations are: Spring lambs
$1,000; choice lambs, $10.O0@10.50i
e common lambs, $950@1O,OO choice
yearlings, $S.75@1O.OO; good yearlings