Show BETTER STOCK MARKET I 1 values of cattle and sheep she ep advance slightly I 1 it ACTIVITY AT RIVER YARDS disposition of owners of beet beef to otake present profits advice to r nold hold their unfinished stock ignored afraid of a drop mutton prices improve to the extent of a f Dime fluctuations in hoe 1109 rates bates movement of stock from utah during the week buyers plentiful 1 cattle and sheep om owners ners bay ent any kick coming on the fiction action ot of ERA ea tern ibern livestock live stock markets market during last weeks trading days at the same time the selling wit was not dono done upon advances adva aces which justify any considerable crow lair on the part 0 of growers or the tellow fellow tell fell 1 who finish their work in the teed feed t lots As a matter of fact fack alues shift led cd but little a hare bare ol dimes lines worth in the case of 0 natives whether the I 1 togs ingo were wool or plain hair but the movement was in the right direction favored the fellow who was part parting in I 1 with his offerings and besides swelling smell n the roll strengthened his confidence in the outcome tor for the next month or alx a ix weeks during which time many teed feed lots lota will be DO cleaned out i I 1 arid and rangers and feeders mado made even better showing than the big fellows I 1 I 1 1 in n cattle A week ago friday their ebest eyo eye wore mourning because of the I 1 couill country peoples indifference and neglect and the best of their port chased one another over the scales at both river trading points at prices ranging I 1 from a dims to a quarter under tho the now favorite even money viz 4 cents tho the week clows cloes with a top on oil this stylo style of a critter down oat at kansas I 1 city the highest mark made by the type lypo in many moons and up tho the some same I 1 river further accordi according tir to the map knights ot of the whip claim to be doing business tor for shippers at tho the same prices or better without shifting their seats seals in the saddles there Is no doubt about the activity of the market mar ket for this style of cattle end and there appears lit tie if any lessening of the demand at the tha quarters rua THE ante WEEKS OFFERINGS tho weeks supply in ila numbers was under tinder the run of oc cattle for the previous seven days and considerably over that for tho the corresponding week of while the character of offerings continued largely on th the short feed sure profit p fit order the purpose behind shippers chippero pero in this selling of unfinished stuff is now seen by the market journals generally to be is disposition to take profits assured by present values and these chroniclers vehemently declaim silvIn nga alnet st the practice As maurace parsons puts it a man Is a born idiot in the present estimation time of these observers when he throws half balf fed stuff on tho the market its ICS good evidence that lie he cant hit the ground with his bla hat when be sells is bullock lacking lackl ner the final cont cent of varnish and just a year ago this time the same writers were pounding country people on the back to run in their stull stud while labile it would cla class light or ined medium lurn and with dally daily persistency tency pointed out and argued with the chump who held his stuff oft off to make it good and heavy of 0 course its a different year this year find the conditions condl tlona are altered I 1 a good bit and to an i extent the condemnation dem derri nation of the practice alluded allaud ed to is justified right night now of course scours e the th e big biff felloes have a margin in favor fa vo r of 0 their build when properly ro rounded und of that makes turning oil oft unfinished seem like sacrificing WISH TO SELL but who knows how it will be after awhile the papers cant guarantee coming values and it if the feed lot peo pla pie generally acted on the advice and admonitions dally bestowed by these counselors the chances tire are that when their stuff all got to the shipping and export order the demand for that grado grade ot of cattle would bo be pounded out of tight night by the surplus supplies and the finishers would find themselves in a state now held to be so desirable for their cattle a finished one beers been there before several times time of late years and who w ho can blame them or criticise criticism critic ise it they show is disposition to rika rake down a single pot before the draw eveh though there Is nothing in it but plain antes its a pure guess whether the popularity of the b big g fellows will continue with tho the chances against their size it they materialize later on in largo largis numbers and this being the situation of the game frame as seen from this point feint of view why hazard a winn winning ing already made by letting the other bellows try to fill their hands its a cinch that the buyers are always laying back with a hand that one lone one card will fill or otherwise complete land and a nasty sort of a a paw to t 0 play up against unless ones loaded 4 generally speaking cowmen are not la in that shape these days they are accordingly content to amble oft off with modest winnings and the bulk of them amble whether its the right way to play the game or not the heavy selling of stuff on the order promises to ease off receipts later on and as seen from this distance li 14 likely likel y to le be a rood good influence on feeder feed er values throughout t all next summer bummer it if the iu I 1 beet cattle ghou tt e continue to show scarce rearm a rood stiff pier alum will be put on them and they will he be moving away from the values of the other kinds there ethere would be no menace to feeding rattle in such guch as a shift and as yet tho the middleweights middle weights recovered ais losses leases worth mentioning tor for more than fa day or so ao lit at it a clip As seen from athis this distance therefore the cattle market I 1 Is doing dolne all right and so Is the I 1 man who wat b Is I 1 bellini ill sr just for the sake of handling b his ta profits 0 o fl is MUTTON welli WELL HANDLED wit As has been fre frequently q bently pointed out in columns the mutton market Is pretty well handled these dayi by I 1 he pc people ap 1 e who 0 supply u it during the feeding in r season za r of f the aply year every once in a while its true the western follows fellows lamb it a little too strong tor for a few days day and the value ot of the youngsters but the run la Is well regulated usually and selling moves along ors oa it a steady basis last week prices picked i up UD Es a dime wednesday it at the river on tho the grown kind whether of the biddy id or better variety and the little fello fellows we mode made a shoeing the same day worth a 0 nickel more on the hundred pounds pound to owners the close at kan pas as city friday was 4 70 for toppy lambs and western mutton that could net get under that classification clas bitic allori changed hands bands in it a trip over the scales at 33 3 70 in the eastern pigpens pig pens sellers were not subjected to any sensational usage by the packers erli monday and tuesday lt it is 1 true tile tho latter were out hogging usual with hdldn a dime lower each day as the trading but the punishment ended day it a re in li prices sot act in r anti and the fat necks got back a nickel of their previous t loaves thursday though few in numb umbers crt they bat an eye when the ne trusting grunting commenced commence but looked sit nt toft the packers agents fearlessly till ith in an that made their owners amne omne r 0 5 I 1 cents better belter off cf on the hurl hundred dred walh these sum gains il gayB struggle to quit ven oven on OIL the week ended and J at as arida rr ida 1 baj baled wera barely steady and alion lie ile anally uy lay down at river selling belling places ilar en yesterday l the he bulk of it hla his port was v valued tied at t to as against prices a div dime n big higher hn when wax trading stopped the week before hilt 4 Is mh what t rat fat hogs have b been ee n doing for their owners at pl places where h cre ahe they pack em e lately and its ifa no ch change n worth mentioning from values m which aich halie hac ruled for months still home me one inn must 8 t see arc an outcome for the swine industry aal 1 the following recent sales alea and prices rr 0 ot broad owa bows indicate an auction vale sale of fiely tour four head heild of the 0 C council stock block wits was held fit at Williams williamsville ville III on the iho ulc at which the offering of BOWS named made an average per head of g the best price at which any one sow BOW sold bold was waa the next neit best one brought six 0 fliers did better than and so on through the lifty four head drove the tall ender ot of the bunch brought bi ought 8 measly and at thit that figure brought bi ought her owner tit in EL sum almost equal to what armour pays for who mho ecale beale lots iota of gruyters gr on the markets these days to work up into mess pork CATTLE MOVEMENT there has been some movement of cattle out of 0 the country hereabouts hereabout during the week and selling of 0 other lots which had previously moved at eastern pi lees we only hear ot of orna oma has dolar in thin line IB by word or mouth these days arid and in this instance the word comes through scott davis who Is just back from that p point int a and d the tell rory east and north tot 0 h here pre from rom which it draws some business mr davis represents the omaha trading place in these wilds and whenever anything Is done there that makes a n nice I 1 ce stor fiory y for the yards the gentleman Is it in circulation quite numerously as it were the beckwith cattle are the koplo this time and others front from monalda up above pocatello which made eve even is Is a better showing the first named string was on the market last monday when be head a of aver averaged ged 1038 pounds and brought ta 3 95 gilve others weighed 10 pounds and sold for with a throw wout W out of 0 two tall only which went for ja 3 and 53 weights slightly higher than the big bunch manafred man alred to pull down under tile the average on the same day at the same name place idaho feeders averaging pounds brought 13 33 63 and another lot which were dounda poun 19 heavier went into rome maron mans feed lot for 20 10 cents on oil the hundred more money A few cows in the latter consignment brought ta 2 40 and some pound heffers SS 3 even A bunch of 0 utah acera acers numbering sixty head crossed the same scales wednesday at ft 1 85 55 which were probably shipped by and brownell from bingham the latter weighed pounds the montilla mont cattle mentioned sold up the river thursday as fol follows lowR fifty three feeders 1018 1019 pounds ta 4 03 05 6 61 fee feeders ders 1013 pounds munds H 4 25 feeders 4 0 pounds 34 4 23 feeders pounds 1 90 1024 pounds 14 1332 1132 pounds 76 27 cows 4 53 pounds 3 15 30 bulls 1 egl 61 pounds 2 10 93 fe oed leders loio 1040 pounds pound 3 86 the last named string was shipped by J TL make blake and the others were marketed by various owners whose names are not familiar in these parts TUB TIIE OMAHA MARKET omaha made substantial gains in her january receipts over those for the corresponding period of na 96 in eattle eattie the increase aoa we 71 hend hes d sheep brI bristles atles 39 head that market caught last month from utah 1653 1650 cattle against the year before during the same time hogs all gain and 1355 sheep against not a single strand of I 1 wool in the same time during the highest price paid tor for tiny any sort 0 f cattle last year during this month mont h a at t omaha we was 4 15 and it took t 0 k 1700 pounds to touch buyers for 1711 that at figure feeders are crowding abat notch now and the big fellows fellow are bringing from a quarter to 40 cents more money mr davis says corn in ID and about his h s country Is selling for or figures running from 8 to 12 11 cents pe per bushel and that the lacy brothers broth ere at it wood river are feeding the a article to their sheep I 1 in Is large quantities at the former price there Is quite 0 a string of 0 stuff from up north of us heftI headed pd in t toward omaha cattle principally W I 1 guthrie loaded ono one train tit at baker city wednesday and another at walla walla which was at pocatello thursday night feeding george harvey had twelve cars ot of cattle and a load of sheep out of 0 sage wyo friday and T 13 wood closed the doors doom of sixteen cara of feeders at blackfoot on the same day from the south and of the utah style of bovine ora haley moved twelve cars from monday nelch ho he had cont contracted meted to receive from various owners in that hat section on that date the burch purchases s es were made about holiday time on 3 2 cent 4 per cent shrink bl b L and as the cattle were good lookers weighed about 1200 pounds and went out welt well handled they ought to make biome money mr haley ran from here to denver but no sale of the stuff was waa shown there thursday Thuri iday the same shipper to loaded abed five cars at manti ml ait pleasant an and d salina early in tuo the week which also went to denver but the scenery caught the latter consignment and th the a local hustlers of the denver rio grande say bay tho the term describes their line as well as the western AFTER SEVIER STOCK all the dealers up this way know the Ne nebraska bruska buyer buver aleck Do dobson ligon m who he recently ran twenty loads of cattle down into nebraska from froam the milford country but he was a a rank stranger strang tr over in the elsinore Els lnore region the other day d a Y and hla his troubles for a time were multitudinous ile he kept on lorrain corr allne ng cattle however and loaded I 1 thirteen thir tee it cars for omaha at that thal point early in the week and hawks gregory and dick say he acted like a 0 gentleman about thi the routing shipments to move shortly are seven or eight cars of the ireland cattle from salina and live five can of the steers at provo which sears sold J 13 rolph by wire mire early in tile the week meek speaking of ireland recalls the presence of the manager of 0 giat name in the hie city tuesday when hla his disposition was mas out or 0 the usual as it were word had just previously reached him of the theft of three car cara of IM hla and neighbors cattle and with the ald aid of the railroad people the irato irate owner ouner was N as keeping the wires hot bot to locate his missing stock at I 1 ladt t accounts this had not been done R reports sports op orts from other indicate that there Is 1 a good bit of rustling going on these cheso das adne and the talk Is that something is divine iw be done and that quickly and effectively to put pill a stop to lo the practice the legislature la Is in a 4 ailon there Is it a big sprinkling of stockmen stoc kmen in it and a cowman ruling over the upper house any necessary necie abary measure ought to be passed at this session without delay or difficulty dillI culty on proper presentation BUYERS ARE NUMEROUS buyers continue fairly numerous in town and over the ranges south of here among those thos c seen during the week were eugene Arnor ettl from Wo coming ming who mho wants steers and quite a herd of them tile gentleman was wag being shown about by its hla friend john job tilton donnellan and it Is belle believed v od succeeded in locating just what let he be wanted john beckwith of evanston haa bam also been here and a bunch of kansas hansas buyers on w honi charley of the santa is keeping caws cases as the gentlemen are from points aiono alone lit line john joh n walters the big sheep operator from denver Is liere here looking the ground over nver tor for bargains and I 1 E itt gibson who mho hails front omaha nee everybody knows know and will we Z n deal 0 of f the miter latter roil poll any time re registered g Is nt hi the cullen I 1 stephen kedigh who him hast been doing ewt lost of tin aig buying out in n nevada lately for |