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Show Prosperous Year at Stockyards. Chicago. Figures on tho business transacted at the union stock yards for 1000, show tho valuntlon of live: stock handled to bo tho largest on record. Tno receipts for tho year! woro slightly ovor 10,000.000 head, valued at $314,:t00,000, uu Increase of $20,000,000 over 1905. General prices) fluctuated within u narrower range; than In provlous year.. -Reef cattle averaged 25 cents u hundred higher,, bogs $1 higher, sheep 20 cents higher and lambs 5 cents higher, |