The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-12
HOG PRICES DECLINED
Grain Markets Strong During
Week and Closed Higher
(For week ending April 8, 1929

(For week ending April 9, 1929
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chica-
go hog prices declined 5 to zoe COM
pared with a week ago. Beef steers
10 to 15c, butcher cows steady to zoe
and feeder steers 10c net lower. Butch
calves Csc to 81. Fat lambs ranged
from SOC lower to 40c up; feeding
lambs rs to 40c and yearlings steady
to soc off. Fat ewes steady to 25c
higher for the week. On April 9th. hogs
mostly 10 to 15c lower; 'beef steers
Is to Csc and butcher cows and heif-
ers steady, 15c lower. Veal calves
around SOC lower. Lambs Is to Csc
off and sheep steady. April 9Th Chi.
cago prices: Hogs. top, $S.45; bulk of
sales $SO5 to S.35; medium and good
beef steers So to 9.65; butcher cows
and heifers $4.35 to 9.65; feeder steers
$6.25 to $50; light and medium weight
veal calves $3.50 to 9.75; fat lambs
$12.50 to 1850; feeding lambs $13 to
1875; yearlings 1915 to 1850; fat
ewes 81 to 9.25. Stocker and feeder
shipments from IL important markets
during the week ending March 3Oth
were: Cattle and calves 35,433, hogs
1855; sheep $3.50. In eastern whole
sale fresh meat markets beef and
lamb steady, veal weak to 81 lower;
mutton soc to 81 higher; light pork
loins SOC to 81 off and heavy loins SOC
net lower for the week. April 9th
prices good grade meats: Beef $13 to
Is, veal $14 to IS, lamb $22 to rs, NUT
ton $14 to II, light pork loins SIS to
II, heavy loins $11 to Is.
Minneapolis - While three secret
group indictments charging nearly q
score of twin city business men. attor-
neys and other persons with implica.
ton in the sale or possession of bonds
stolen in daring mah robberies
throughout the country, totaling mil
lions of dollars, were being returned
by the federal grand jury, United
States secret service operatives and
postal inspectors were testifying be-
fore the, jury regarding the recovery
here of $4,000 in currency taken in
the sensational Denver mint robbery.
MISUNDERSTANDING to obtain "a
fair and reasonable" settlement for
the timber lands owned by Chippewa
Indians on the Minnesota national
forest which, according to an appraisal
made by a special committee to the
secretary Of the interior, Jan. 16 last,
are worth $1,490,1s5.5 e. L. Rogers,
as legal representative of the Indians,
has addressed an appeal to President
Harding urging that the government
disregard the report and arrange a
new appraisal for the timber and
lands which he estimates to be worth
mot less than $4,000, 0O0." Rogers Ia
county attorney for Cass county
st. PauI-Minnesota farm land tax
es jumped 146 per Get from 1913 to
1922, according to figures made public
by the United States department Of
agriculture crop reporting service.
Minnesota farmers paid an average Of
81 cents tax an acre for every acre
listing as farm land in 1922, and 81
cents an acre in 1894, the statistics
show. The percentage of increase in
the period was greater than that of
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mis-
souri, The average tax an acre re-
mains less than thai Of the first three
states made, however. The percent.
age increase is less than that of either
South or North Dakota and not much
larger than the average for the coun-
try.