Show CA MARKET DOWN AND UP Good Business Is Done at Salt Lake Stock at Close IS RATHER WEAK SP SPECULATORS CHA CHARY Y ABOUT BUYING EWES The weekly letter of the Western Commission company of Salt Lake and Ogden to Its customers among the cat cattle cattie tie tle and sheep feeders In Utah and Idaho contains the following comments on the eastern live stock markets and anda a partial record of local receipts and shipments In keeping with Mondays record since the year began the run of cattle on the big markets the first day of last week was again very heavy sufficiently sufficiently so as to break prices for the sellers a good 15 cents in the hundred Pounds and as the feed lot folks kept shoving bovines at the packers on the River in big batches again Tuesday salesmen were busy getting prIces that enabled them to report steady wIth Mondays close This on westerns of the best sort both killing and feeding kInds and cattle of less merit caught more punishment But lighter receipts later In the week as well as an Increase of buying country folks at all the sell selling ing places again strengthened values and the close for the week was on on a good demand for good westerners at steady to strung strong fi figures res The receipts for tile the year to d date te ap approxImate approximate proxImate in s of last years total for the same period At present River prices to Utah steers ought to be selling at to Holders are generally asking however a quarter higher and some sales to western kill killers ers Los Angeles San Bernardino and Seattle buyers are reported at prices between these figures No Advance on Sheep Notwithstanding the bullish advices coming occasionally from the wool cen centers tens on the commodity and the unchanging complaint of some of the River markets that the mutton receipts continue skimpy for local killing tie de demands mands there is no advance to report in the selling price of either wether ewe or Iamb receIpts at any of the old places and to the trade out here there must be grIef to some of the fellows who are feeding out lambs at last falls faUs prIces on a 6 to 6 cent market A year ago the same stuff probably much better fattened was as bringing a dollar a hundred more money The combined receipts of the big bi places since the first of the year shoW a gain over the same of 1905 1505 of and the weather hereabouts for forthe forthe the past fortnight been of a sort to offset the disappointing returns actual selling for mutton purposes handed feeders are keep keeping keeping ing In pretty prett frequent communication with their wintering bands on the desert and elsewhere from this center and they report inconsequential losses notwithstanding circulated rumors of heavy mortality in places But the wet snows and nasty cold blasts which have been hanging on are having a deterrent effect on speculative buying particularly of ewes as they menace the lamb crop in the judgment of these wise ones A with a streak of warm weather will probably start contracting pat prices fairly well up to l last t falls faUs selling figures The few hogs arriving at the local yards are selling at to a hundred Receipts at Stock Yards Among the receipts at the Union stockyards during the week Leary and Warren report the following Chas Turner FarmIngton Julius Ohis Packing Co San Bernadino thirty cattle cattIe same to Billy Edwards Salt Lake eight cattle Lars Hansen Logan to Intermountain Packing Co thirty cattle Elias Elia Adams Layton Laton to Utah Packing Co six steers George GeorgeR GeorgeH R H Howard NephI to Utah Packing Co steers Hyrum Stewart Kaysville to Utah PackIng Co thirty thirtyfour thirtyfour four steers Haley and Saunders On Ontario tario tanio to same Kansas City Grand Junction steers Frank Bourne to WIllIam Wood six steer W R IL Layton to Wllliam William Wood eight steers Hyrum Stewart Kaysville to Utah Packing Co sheep P C Peterson Mt Pleasant to Utah Packing Co sheep T J C Leary Malad to Utah PackIng Co sheep Through Utah Construction Co Gar Garfield Garfield field to same Oroville California one car of horses Kilpatrick Bros and Collins Manti to Thayer Neb one car of horses H P Zimmerman Mont Montpelier pelier to Riverside California one car carof carof of horses |