Show EASTERN RN BUYERS TAKE TA OFF OFFA A DIME Cattle Men Men en in l Eastern Centers Ask Another Concession Prom From m Shippers VALUS STIFFEN IN WEEK LETTERS LETTER OF WESTERN COMMIS COMMISSION COM COMMISsi MIS MISSI SION SI w N CO c TO UTAH SHIPPERS 4 The weekly letter of the Western CommISS iW any to local cattle and sheer sheep men reads as follows The Th receipts of cattle at the three big selling places last week were compared with the week be he before fore and as CUi a over a third of this num nuni number t her ber landed in Chicago Kansas Kanas City and Omaha Monday buyers took oft off offa a dime from the closing prices of the thc week before and then thon went after Oma Omaha Omaha ha shippers again Tuesday for an another another another other concession Salesmen at Chicago and Kansas City Ity were able to get steady prices for fot the best beet with receipts of and respectively and the lake lak sell seU sellIng sellIng Ing place with on cm the market Wednesday r did its business on a basis of 10 cents higher evening up for Mondays loss Values stiffened a little throughout the tho remainder of the week and the c lose dose was vas an active demand at a shade better prices than the previous week selling s But the improvement in tone ton Is not what was expected in volume by local operators They hoped for foi f a i positive advance as well as assigns assigns signs Igns that the country people who have corn and prospects of grass and perhaps the money would be more in int 4 t evidence on the market to mix with the killers buyers Muddy roads and nasty feed lots kept ept them away probably probably ably abl but of course they may be fig figuring figuring that they cant use these west western ern rn cattle cuttle at higher than present fig figures figures figures ures If so its a cinch that feed feeders feeders ers rs will have to ship out the remain dor of their holdings themselves Sellers Prices Too High Speculators peculators cant buy and ship east oil the prices local sellers are arc asking V viz iz from 3 to 4 cents while the end of the best sorts left in the country will not bring better than a half on any of the river markets All AH of which goes to show in view of the fact shrink and mark marketing eting pUng costs c ts 1 per hundred that it will take a n noise that sounds like 25 to 40 cents cent higher back east Cast to start any anything anything anything thing among speculative shippers out this way Some selling goes on how however howver however ever ver to local and western buyers at last weeks figures 3 to 4 cents The Petterson pulp steers at Ogden and another r local string of good killers ore ere bought by Ralph Myers at the latter figure and shipped to San Frati c cisco iaco early in the week and ad Charley Beason passed the Gentile Valley cat cattle tIp tle tl and the Strong steers from Mont font pel ier through that busy center Wed Wednesday carloads strong The for former former mer mpr were said to have he cost 3 cents f and ind the he latter even money and they to the Western Meat company S at Sun Situ Francisco The Potter steers and the Gams Garus arus steers also from Bear River alley came In Tuesday and were sold by lw this to the local killers at at 4 1 cents Two loads on the he feeder order out of the string were were shipped on to Denver where they will sell Monday at from to per Were Unable to Ship The rio Bros were unable to get their buy buyout out of the Basin for on the They had forty OHIS et ordered er ered for that date and loaded but nine loads because of the depth of the snow It Is understood that the remainder of ot their purchase up there will run about April AprilO 20 O when trails are expected to be l e pas passable passable passable sable The nine loads shipped went to Denver where another Montana lot the J F Brown cattle sold for I early ath In iT tl the week and a bunch of I ed dt steers were good enough to bring brill OO per hundred on Wednesday Wed Ved Wednesday Only one sale of any size in the stocker line was reported during the thew w ek that of Idaho steers to be delivered April 7 M 11 K I Parsons sold them for his combination I It lIon ion t to Norman Ballantine wh will take them to the old Y T ranch The prices were not given Sheep and Lambs Receipts of sheep shee and lambs on the 1 markets we v keep cases on ran last week compared with two weeks back bulk but the lessening of o supplies had no strengthening ef effect effect effect on values Chicago reported heavy receipts the first three days Monday Tuesday and Wednesday V The unloading at the big place looked like getting out from under to deal doal dealers ers rs every place else and trading was steady only whore where a decline was not quoted Values sloughed off a good 20 cents and it caught shippers worse than those thoo figures indicate where lambs were on the common order Ewes and are holding their theiron own on and as wool has stiffened up a little locally under a resumption of buying by the eastern fellows the situ situation situation situation from a price standpoint looks good to local sellers One lot of ewes numbering that shear SV now in Idaho wool clip contracted at 23 cents sold to a local buyer Tuesday at n t Receipts at Stockyards Leary Tarren report the follow following following following ing receipts and shipments for the tho week at the Union stockyards Out OutTo To Ballantine Beggs Begs De Do DeBeque DeBeque Beque Boque Colo Cob 17 loads lords cattle In Charles Turner Farmington to Utah Packing company 27 steers Dan Peacock Moroni Mor nl to Utah Packing com corn company company pany lambs Iambs J H Wilcox Davis county to William Wood 7 steers ste rs L to Utah Uta Packing company 3 cows and James Smith 5 cows to Utah Packing company JamEs Jams Crid CId Criddle CIddIe Criddie dIe dle 18 steers and A Dav Daw ton eon 16 steers to Neil McMillan Lars Lus Hansen Lo JIO Logan i igar gan gar to the he Intermountain Packing company compan 29 steers W V N Nalder Da Davis Davis Davis vis county r to Utah Packing Company 21 steers Western Commission com corn company company pany party to Utah Packing company 78 is steers 13 cows 2 calves s Out Western tern Commission C company to Denver Livestock Commission com corn company company pany Denver 72 stockers stackers and fowl feed feeders ers em Charles Turner to John Edwards S 8 steers M I M I Davis county to Utah Packing company 20 steers John W Thornley Thornly Kaysville to the Utah Packing Pucking company 16 steers ste rs arid Ar d 5 S cows A Bates Baths to Utah Pack Packing Packing ing company 28 sheep Through B Blackman De Do D Beque Cob rolo to same samo Boise Ua Jila 1 car emig cattle and ari horses |