Show IDAHO HOGS C01ING Utah Supply Has Been Very Nearly Worked Up A conservative estimate of the mar ketable og remaining in the territory places the number at not over half a dozen carloads and the porkers are held almost exclusively in Sanpete and Cache counties Within the next two weeks the supply of the territory for this season will have been exhausted and then the Utah Slaughtering company I com-pany will make drafts upon southern I Idaho and probably some of the other states adjacent For some weeks past i the Idaho hogs have been ready for slaughter but on account of the desire de-sire of the company to clean up Utah before making any shipments from the outside comparatively few consign ments of the northern porkers have been received here Now however the time draws on apace when i will be necessary to secure the supply from the outside and the Utah growers will retire in favor of their northern neighbors neigh-bors I is said that there are great numbers of fat hogs In southern Idaho will direct to this which w1 come market for the prices paid here are as high with freight off as the quotations which govern sales on the principal livestock markets of the middle east Having been heavily fed on hay and I grain the northern hogs are In splendid I splen-did condition and will make unexcelled bacon hams and lard Down at the packing house of the slaughtering company operations are being carried on with full forces and about the usual number of hogs are taken care of weekly The stock in the warehouses of the company is rapidly Increasing but there are indications indi-cations of an early change for the bet eary ter in prices in fact trade in cured I meats is now considerably heavier than was the case some weeks ago The Utah Slaughtering company has in its I desire to encourage the growers of this territory paid Chicago prices for the hogs received by i and > in consequence con-sequence a great cum of money has been distributed among thrt farmers since the opening of the season Every indication points to a greatly increased feeding of hogs during the coming year and there seems to be a great desire de-sire on the part of the growers to Im of gowers I prove their breeds s as to put upon the market hogs which would pass in any market of the world Hay and grain in hogs bring more than double what they would on the open market The receipts of live stock at the Union stock yards during the past week were not up to the standard the total being but 533 Of these 395 head were cattle 97 head were sheep and 4 head were hogs L A Doane yesterday bought from E T Clark of Farmington fiftythree head of choice beef steers which he will this morning ship to Omaha for market The average weight of the cattle was 1257 pounds and they were all hay and grain fed I will require two cars to transport them east The bunch was fed at the Union stockyards stock-yards last night |