Show t The past week has been a crisp one out at the Union Stockyards All sorts of stuff has been shifting the bull to other ranges but a larger percent o than usual has been of the finished order in the case of the cattle offerIngs offer-Ings and this weighed up to home and outside killers The foreigners got the big end of arrivals which they had previously contracted In country feedlots feed-lots at prices higher than local dressed beefmen could bring themselves up to bId But few sales have been made by feeders here this spring to home butchers butch-ers at higher than even money for steers und speculators who wanted cattle cat-tle for eastern purposes were obliged to bid under butchers from a dime to a quarter or drop a wad when their purchases touched thc other Nebraska Denver 01 n river point The hew buyers represented an Unusual un-usual demand upon Utahs supply at this season of the year They came down from the sound country and re T1Qrt lies It that they h iit j hausted the reserve of killIng stuff between be-tween here and Porth1llu peaLoc uIJ other big northwestern centers of consumption con-sumption but that their drafts for cattle cat-tle have extended into Montana and BrItish territory also They have made a big drag through here certainly for the time of the year and considering I the limited supply of good cattle on feed and as before intimated their purchases have jolted local prices upward I up-ward a good big quarter on the hundred hun-dred pounds Good For Sellers The appearance of this outside l1e I mand just at this time therefore has been an excellent thing for sellers and especially so as thE hope of help from eastern markets declines The stiffenIng stiffen-Ing of values which feeders looked for all wInter is not materializln very noticeably at the big Belling places and but for the northwestern demand It Is quite lileh that many of time heavy cattle weighed here Tuesda would have disappointed the people who put their tallow on The principal northern Imrers were 1lessrs Thomas and Yont representing represent-ing the Fry Bnlber company killers wholesalers and retailers at Seattle prIncipally but with cutting places at all Sound cities of impOrtance They were brought Into this neck o the woods by Frank Wadsworth and Charley McKibben who operates with hIm and from these gentlemen and several DavIs county feeders they gathered in and shipped Wednesday twentyfive cars of as good cattle as any alfalfa district In the country could round up The Ezra Clark cattle fed at Farm Ington was the fIrst string to cross the scales There was one load of them and they topped the beam at an average aver-age of l16G pounds which Is about 100 pounds lighter than the old man usually usual-ly makes his stuff weIgh Other Heavy Cattle Frank adsworths stuff came In three lots and every steer in each lot was a crackerjack The first drive of seYent two cattle averaged 1170 pounds MeKlbbens drive of 104 cattle made an average of 1200 pounds andthe Butcher string of fiftyone head weIghed 1332 pounds to the critter The cattle were all smooth threes and I fours and they looked like so many cornfeds Ford Bros the big Center rule feeders had In two drives one of I thirtyseven head and another of fIfty I seven ali good cattle The former av eraged 15f hounds and the latter 12i pounds John W Thornley of Layton the hardest working stockman between the BrItish line and the gulf sold Thomas fiftythree steers that he bought at the yards last summer They were so thin and light at that time It took two steers to break n balance of the scales They averaged 1140 pounds when weIghed up on Wednesday whIch goes to shioev as Brig Little of the Burlington says Thomas Steed had fIt cattle in the jackpot for sound word and they were weighty beggars also The draft was 6880 pounds on the five brutes Knight Co the local killers were the other buyers during the week They I got a drive of twelve good killers from I Walter Streed Wednesday all cows twentytwo cattle from KaysvIlle Ward twelve head mixed cows and steers from J S and Will SmIth of Layton and a drive of thirty head from their Kaysville farm Movement of Sheep Begins The movement of sheep from the desert des-ert wInter range to Wasatch md other lambing grounds in that vicinity on the nlon Pacific set In Wednesday Tom Jones was the tirst lIockmastcr to lond out He doubled up twentysix cars with about 105 to the degk and Robert Cowan followed him out with eleven loads the same day HIram Sutton swung round the point of the mountain Tuesday wIth 8000 woolly biddies which were part of the drive of Bishop Vraithall and these flocks loaded out Wednesday The Deseret LIvestock commenced Thursday since whIch time General I Manager Wells and his etllcient secre tary O P Hatch have punched out sevent six ears This company has an order in for 10 car and they are just about half through shearing Theo are loading twenty ears today notwithstanding I notwith-standing the Sabbath because cars could not be Procured early enough yesterday yes-terday to put them on the feed grounds before dark Itt K Parsons started out the second train of his cattle Tuesday to Grand Junction and this lot will be summered on Jack Killians Delta range |