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Show I UTAH IAMBS I CLIMB HIGHER I Heach$M5on Kansas City Market I JhiriBg Past Week. Top I Trices : K I BETTKR GRADES REMAIN FIRM Utah Steers Command High I Prices and Are Feature of m theMarket Kansas City Stock Yards, , Aug. 16, 1912. Cattle received; ; here this week 56.300. last week J 54,500, same week last year . J . 47,800. The market has been a ' spradling affair this week, best 4 kinds selling firm, with prime i - steers 30 cents above the tops 5f . last week, at $10.40, but lower grades off 15 to 25 cents. The Hi m same general conditions ruled f last week, except that there was - a thinner upper crust this week Eg ; l than last. The run of quarantine cattle has been very light this f week, and quality was lacking most days. A few fair cattle L are here today, about 1030 f. pounds, at $5.80 to $6.15. Kansas fk pasture steers have ranged from $6.50 to $9.15 this week. Ship- , 1 pers are making money on them, Will liinii ' "1 't' i "lii'TV1" " '" " " 7. r now through the fall months, .r' Stocker and feeder buyers have been here in great numbers this -. week. They took out 4000 cattle ' Tuesday, and 5500 cattle Wed- nesday, easily the largest move- ' ment of the season. Prices are f not much changed, most of the feeders selling at $5.65 to $7.25 and the stockers $4.75 to $5.85. Some Utah feeders sold at $6.00 first of the week, and killing ; steers from Utah brought $7.00 to $8 00, cows $5.10. There may i be some losses in the market if I " runs continue liberal, but no break of consequence is anticipated. antici-pated. Hogs have arrived in very small numbers, and the market has had an upward tendency. ten-dency. Sales today were 5 to 10 lower, without any apparent reason, for provisions sold higher. high-er. A return to strength is ex ( pected first of the week. Top today $8.50, bulk $8.25 to $8.45. Sheep and lamb shippers have i quit shipping for this week be- cause of bad treatment from buy ers, only 500 here today. Utah spring lambs sold at $6.65 today, yearlings worth up to $4.75, wethers $4.00 to $4.25, ewes I $3.00 to $3.50. Killers say they cannot move the meat, for the I reason that retailers are trying I to make up on mutton what they J cannot make on beef and pork, J at present prices, the public J therefore having no incentive to eat mutton. Stronger prices J arc hoped for before the end of the month by dealers. Feeding lambs bring $5.25 to $6.00, and will likely sell close to killers all fall. .I . - .i -1 i |